The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-07

cane. AS in other parts of the city,
en- off trees and outhouses blown down.
the only accident entailing personal
injury occurred to Harry Driscoll, three
He was nearly drowned in a pond form
ed just back of the Summit avenue car
stables ;s les by the stern Wills playing
to. the bottom. His brother. Pierce Dris-
coli. twelve years old. with the assist
taken home and his wet clothes were re-
moved.
A sign in front of Christ hospital was
aged. This morning it was in place again.
An outhouse IN the rear OF the hospital
was lifted by the wind and carried away:
in yard next door It was none the
worse for its little trip, but, it carried the
was ,Sa brought Su : bsak @s this Is morn morning. M M
9. hard time Of ii. What with The, clatter
and the impending danger danger , Of CRASH
somewhere abou. the building. Several
panes Of glass were blown out of the
the roof OF some of the buildings and a
tin roof on one was ripped up.
These accidents caused some. small
leaks They did not necessitate the re-
not, in the neghborhood Of the beds.
The storm yesterday caused some IN pn
cellar was Hooded and the sanitor had 10
wade or rather swim in water waist high
to reach the furnaces
School was dismissed at one o'clock.
The teachers started for home Just when
the storm was at its height. The rain
grammar teachers wers afraid Of GET
ting wet and stood looking at one another
nnr qn Sate esped one pax of dens Of es
wagons on the opposite side of the street
1t was hailed with delight by them They
wagon wage s and ali tried to Scramble % into 1T s
at the same time, but skirts were in the
way and they couldn't get in. FINALLY.
and a box was brought to their assist
ance. First one dainty little foot was
placed on the box. then another and with
the wagon Then the tail board was fas-
tened. The driver used his whip and the
wagon rumbled along With It's its unusual
ers.
Oakland Park has been transformed
into into lake by the recsn Sesa heayy og rains rains
ken avenue are flooded. Pumps are at
work removing the. surplus water.
tween. BrinKerhoff Ss 8 street % and Astor i place.
were startled by a loud cracking noise
while the storm was at its height, yester--
9 gof 'f Under the ssS" tin on the X root root q Mrs
Wintringhams house, No. 81 Summit
avenue. and rolling 1t up as neatly as any
startling crash. Tinsmiths are at work to-
day putting en- a new roof
Trains on the Greenwood Lake branch
of the Erie system were stalled this
morning west of Riverdale. N. j., by a
washout near that place. East of there
the road was all right and trains running
on time. The Jersey Meadows showed
wide stretches of water, and there was
water in laces over the tracks in the Erie
roads yards in this city. The Passaic
River was higher than usual, running
very muddy and over1ewing its banks in
places.
The storm worked havoc on the eastern
division of the Erie Railroad, especially in
Orange county the centre of the milk
producing belt. A small bridge was
washed away between Arden and Oxford
yesterday afternoon. causing blockade
which was not raised until this morning
The result was that the milk train which
was due at the Pavonia avenue depot at
eleven o'clock last night had not arrived
at nine o'clock this morning.
The Eastern Superintendent said that
he expected the milk train at eleven
O'Clock. AS a consequence the milk con-
this section, Went without cream in their
coffee this morning. There was great
blockade of belated milk men about the
depot in this city They ought to have
been well on their routes by daylight.
and at nine O'Clock there were at least
Much of the language used by these
dealers would not look well in print.
The storm which caused all the trouble
was in itself of sufficient severity, but
it's efforts were augmented, according
to the Superintendent, by the fact that
the ground was full of frost and the
small streams still frozen over. and the
surface, with no chance to soak into the
earth.