New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-26
INCIDENTS or THE STORM.
TERRIBLE FORCE OF THE WIND IN HARLDs~
WINDOWS BLOWN IN. TREES UPRooTED
AND PEOPLE CARRIED OFF

THEIR FEET.
Free OF the Instructions OF the sky-scrapers ana
high buildings in the lower part OF the city. the
storm descended Harlem and that part OF inc
city north OF the Harlem River with unusuai
violence Uprootcd trees were too numerous TO
count The air for moment was full OF nagS torn
from STATS and from the fronts OF houses; pia.e-
glass windows were crushed in by the force or tho
breeze ana several women who happened 10 %
in the street at the time were thrown from tner
feet
Mrs Nathan Cohen. Of No ia West One-hun-
dred and thrtieth-st and her two children were III
front OF the Harlem Opera House in One-hundred-
and-twenty -ffth-st. when the storm struck tna1
street She made effort TO get into the ioooy
OF the theatre but blown with such force
against the stone wall that she lost consciousness.
She was sent home in cab. The windows OF the
hall connected with the Harlem Opera House were
smashed in and several pedestrians cut by rag
ments of glass which few through the air almost
with the force OF bullets.
At One-hundred "A nd twenty -ninth-st. and Madi-
son-ave tree two feet in diameter and nifty rect
high was snapped off four feet from the ground.
much Ike a pipe stem. II fell obliquely ACROSS
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ninth-st completely oo-
struct,ng that thoroughfare All evening sonic
hundred or more little boys and girls mao raro
sport playing In the branches OF the faIieh siAi.
Other trees Of more or less size were orohen o.A
or uprooted at Park-ave. and One-hundred-ano-
q tvn1 H.
nd-twenty- thirdst.. in front OF NO ooi East Ons
hundred nd -twentieth-st IN front Of No 50 West
One-hundred md -eghthst. and at SeVehtn'
ave- and One-hundred- and twenty fourth-st'
The fire telegraph pole at Lexington-ave. ana
One-hundred -and-twenty- eghth-st. was broken on
close 10 the earth. The two large plate-gass WIN
dows each ten feet square, in the grocery store
OF w F. Morris Seventh-ave and One-hundreo-
and twenty-Afth-st were blown IN and several OK
the clerks were slightly cut by the glass
John Dalv OF No. 40 East One-hundred-ana'
for,y-fourth-st was at work the steep roof OF
new house at One-hundred nd-hfty-thro-st anu
Macomb's Dam Road laying states In place wnen'
the storm broke. He made an effort to desceho.
but an unusually wicked blast caught MIN up s.~
he was hurled TO the ground. hpndred zee. ~
tant Strangely enough. he escaped with hoenns
more serious than bruises. He was taken TO tho
large tree at ST. Nchoas-aye and ons-hun:
unable to Withstand the fury OF the gale, and was
broken of ob half S ay pp a, rass and
One-hundre ed and-forty- second-st was picked up
by the tornado and dashed into tnousaha l.Ss-
The telephone wires somewhere between Beue-
Hospital and 90 is nan co Wsrs
ton between Bellevue and the AIrAshouse ana the
lightning struck the tall spire of the Madison
Avenue Presbyterian Church. at Twenty-1ourtn.sS
Fell in front OF 10 Is Madison ave loo feet away:
No vas hurt second stone fsl Out b GU, ,0rs
and stuck there. The spre Is not seriously IN
jured. - ..L A., ,.or, 40
No 81 Carmlne-st.. erected by the volunteer FIRE.
men in 1865. ana said 10 have been the only one ett
standing in the city, blown down by the wind
No one hurt. The pole was struck by light-
a large poplar tree fell In front OF laundry at
No 25g West Thrty-fourth-st The laundryman
saws that his horse which had been standing unoer
the tree. backed away from /, several times before
it fell.
Trees were blown down in front Of No. $50 West
Twenty -second-st. No. 223 West Twenty -nrst-sI
and No 30 West Twenty ourth-st. This last tree
also blown down in front OF No 2 ST. Luke's Place.
the wind ca rrying ii around the corner.
There forty yachts and rowboats moored ~
from Ore-hundreG and fifty -hrst-st. to One-hun-
dred nd fifty sixth-st.. along the HUDSON River.
Every boat blown loose. number OF men
and women were in bathing ana as they were
houses were blown down, smashed and flung into
the river by the storm.
Five were blown down on the block in Con-
vcnt-ave between One-hundred- twenty eighth
and one hundred-andtwenty-n ninth SITS. big oak
wa. blown the trolley tracks OF the Union
Railway Company at West Farms Lane and Vines
Lane. II broke the wires and delayed traftc for
hour.
Frank Phillips twenty-five years old. cleo
trican. employed Ivy Roster & Bal. was drowned
OF West one hund -ffteth-st. while getting
eral other mer he cleaning the sloop when the
first squat OF the storm ~ She capsized. and
all the went overheard. Phillips went 70 the
At Hudson Beach. near one-hundred-a nd fifty
eighth-st. unknown man put off in soop be-
fore the storm. He was not seen or heard Of
afterward.
At the Knickerbocker Boat Club. in One-hundrsd-
and-fsty-third-st the tin roof OF the house was
torn off rolled UP and blown 10 the top OF q hill
hundred feet away.