The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-15
|PAV0NIA YACHTS LOST
Storms Damage at the High :
lands Building Blown
Down in Hoboken.

The members Of the Payonia Yacht
Club left their quarters at coqnmunipa "
on Saturday for their summer clubhouse
on the. Shrewsbury. social session was
held Saturday night. The members and
guests remained at the Highlands over
night, many sleeping aboard the yachts.
At nine A. NJ Sunday morning when
the storm was most severe the whole
fleet was at anchor off the clubhouse.
1ne motion of the waves tossed them
ABOUT and those on board became SO
ssIlstrIned sI f, tnat many put off In boats for
81 tses snore Ihe yachts were left to the
nercy Of the wind and waves
The cabin sloop Mascot, owned bv
a,arid as.ast Iopss having eight friends Of the
owner " . IL on board The Mascot was blown
g reef Of jagged rocks can De seen when
TIE flde IS low These en- board thinking
sne Waser vas shallow jumped overheard
,n jumping broke three ribs on the rocks.
He was cared for by his friends. The
Mascot 7,s went to pieces.
Ine cabin sloop Pavonia, owned by
adIneS Jonnsqn, was driven on the rocks
ana badly damaged. DR.. Kopetcheney' S
sioop Teresa was also driven ashore and
ieIt wreck on the beach. In the fore
noon a yacht appeared off the club
house flying signals of distress. The
ciup :. men put off in life boat and found
II was the yacht Naturia of the Atlantic
Yaeal Club Of New York; on it was the
They We're brought safely ashore. The
yacht went to pieces in the storm.
Ine nigh wind Of Saturday night and
YESTERDAY did considerable damage to
trees and plants on the Heights. All
aicng Bergen avenue We're strewn limbs
OF trees and leaves were scattered upon
the sidWalks and streets. Bergen Square
ton, including large limbs of trees and
me smaller twsgs. Were it not for the
IRON guards placed around the small
trees on the Boulevard some of them
would have fallen. AS it was MANY were
bent almost in two
The storm in the Hudson City section
RAISED haVocA among the trees, but it is
E9t known that It did any other damage
ABOUT SIX O'Clock yesterday morning It
tore up a large maple tree on Pavonia
avenue, a hundred yards west OF Sum-
mst, n front Of Mr.. IiMcBride's house at
no. 6l2 and lies directly across the street
II the tree had fallen the other way it
would have in all probabilities wrecked
lns has veranda ,T1 q and done other damage to the
blocked for vehicles, which neccessitates
the .goirg around by Cottage street to
reach either the Boulevard or Summit
avenue. -
The streets are strewn with branches
and small trees, while a number of fences
are completely down.
/, Aoboken received its share of the rninia-
ture tornado which swept over the coan-
ty early yesterday morning. The city is
comparatively free from trees, there be-
ing. but very few outside of Castle Point,
and on parts of Hudson street. But there
are any number of tall frame buildings on
and west of Willow avenue, and the wind
h6wled among them and rocked them as
Point.
In fact, the wind was more merciful to
the trees than it was to the buildings. for
while four story frame building in
course of erection at Jefferson and Sixth
streets was. blown completely ever. 1t
landed partly en- jefferson street ard
partly on Sixth street. Large beams
were hurled several yards away and the
street was literally covered with laths
and plaster, and other debris fer con-
siderable distance around.
Men were put to work yesterday noon
clearing things up, and this morning the
street was comparatively cleared of the
immediate vicinity when the building fell,
and consequently no one was injured.