Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-12-06
DEATHS IN THE STORM
From Many Quarters Come Reports Of
Disaster and Tragedies.
HOW NEW JERSEY SUFFERED
Wind Plays Havoc All Along the At
lnntic COast-COlliery Breakers
In Pennsylvania Destroyed.
Roofs Torn OF Buildings.

| Jersey City, Dec. 6.-The hurricane
| did thousands of dollars worth OF dam
| age in Jersey City. 1t created panic
| in the City hospital when the large
chimney over the female ward fell down
with crash. The shower of bricks ter
rorized the female inmates. Many OF
| them went into Mysteries. Many WIN
| dows were broken and a section of the
roof was carried away. The excitement
was increased when a number Of large
trees in the hospital yard were blown
down. Several of the very sick inmates
in the female ward are in a critical con.
dition on account of the fright.
The wind carried off the roof Of a
frame building at Newark avenue and
Montgomery street and dropped it into
Montgomery street. Several pedestrians
narrowly escaped injury. A two story
unfinished frame building at Garfield
avenue and Van Nostrand place was
also blown down. At Pavonia and Gar
rison avenues new two story frame
house, unoccupied, was blown down and
the street filled with debris. At the
Boulevard and Tounele avenue a two
story frame building, unoccupied, be-
longing to Potter Bros. came down with
crash just before midnight.
Bridget Costello, a servant, SO Grand
street, was killed by a fence falling on
her. She had been visiting her sister,
and while passing vacant lot at 701
Grand street board fence about 20 feet
high was blown down by the storm. 1t
fell on the woman, causing almost in
slant death. No one witnessed the ac-
cdent, and the first known that it had
been attended by fatality was when
some men lifted the fence and found
the body underneath it.
The glass roof of the betting ring of
the New Jersey Jockey club track near
Elizabeth was destroyed. and the fences
about the track were blown down.
Twelve trolley cars were stalled be-
tween Elizabeth and Newark The tel
ephone, telegraph and police wires were
crippled.
Church Stceple Falls.
The steeple of the First Presbyterian
church in Cranbury N. j.. was blown
down. A barn was blown across the
tracks of the Brunswick Traction COM
pany at New Brunswick and this de-
layed the trolley cars. Nearly all the
wires were disabled there, and the fire
alarm was interrupted.
The storm did much damage in the
Oranges. The blowing down of a tree
at the corner of Lincoln avenue and
High street broke both telephone and
electric light wires, and that section of
Orange was left in darkness. About 200
feet of fence, belonging to the Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western rail-
road, near the Scotland street curve in
Orange, was blown down. as was also
high board fence in the rear of the
Orange Journal office. In West Orange
the chimney of the Washington street
public school was blown down, as we'll
as 4ss1seSske;ssraph poles on Mortified
road. In South Orange the chancel
window in ST. Andrews church, on Gen.
ter street. was blown in.
Mr.. and Mrs Samuel Eldridge of Bur-
nett street, Newark. who had been Wis
iting Mrs. Smith in Elizabeth. started
to go home. They battled with the
wind and rain as far as Elizabeth ave-
nue., where they expected to board a
car. No cars We're running, and they
started to walk to the railroad station
amid falling branches and flying shut
tiers on East Grand street. Mrs. Ell
bridge, who was 60 years old, fell ex-
She was carried into the
house of Charles Reed, where she died
in five minutes frcm excitement and
exhaustion. Her body was taken to
Newark.