The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-26

building was damaged slightly and several
large windows were smashed. Windows
In number of houses in this block were
also smashed. Today while an army OF
workmen were tearing away the debris
from the park, two armies of men could
be seen mending the demolished roofs OF
houses on the York street and Montgom-
cry street sides of the park.
The iron rails surrounding two sides
of the big house on the northwest corner
of Jersey avenue and York street were
feled on the sidewalk opposite the York
street side.
Meanwhile the serpentine monster was
leapng, plunging and whirring in the di-
rection of ST. Matthew'S German Evan
gelical Church, tearing roofs up on its
way. Somehow it lodged the tall spire,
but it pounced upon and tore up the wes-
tern slope of the roof of the church. Fal-
len timbers were blown in force against
the side of the frame residence of DR..
Benjamin Edge and gaping hole torn in
the side of the Doctors home. This
building is one of two that flank st. Mat
thew's Church, and both are of Athenian
architecture, with large f1uted columns
and Ionic capitals supporting the roofs of
the front portico.
In between the church and DR.. Edges
residence there lay yesterday a pile of
debris. The architect of the church, Mr..
Ernest Hoffman, who had been called
from his home in Albany, happened to
be present when a '.News" reporter visit
ed the scene. He said he did not estimate
the damage at more than $1,000, although
the damage had before been estimated at
over $1,000 He called attention to the
fact that the trusses had not been i'm
paired and that the roof of wood and
slate had alone been torn off.
The cyclone took an upward shoot still
smashing windows and tearing up roofs in
its wake The police of the First Precinct
report this list of damages to properties
which will convey to the reader an idea
of the damages outside of those already
mentioned, in the vicinity of Van Worst
Park
Nos. AL and 444, Jersey avenue, windows
and roofs damaged Nos. S6, So, so, 92, 97,
SO, 1e1, 1o3, los and II Wayne street, roofs
and windows damaged; Nos. 80, 90, "a, 96,
IS, 100, 102, 104 LOG, 10S and 110 Mercer
street, windows torn off and roofs partial
ly damaged; Nos. 274, 276 and $50 Mont
gomery street, windows broken and roofs
torn off; Nos. 2S5, 2S7, 2S9, 291 293 and 2s5
York street, windows broken and roofs
torn off; Nos. 8, Z, 5, g. Z, s and Paulmier
place, windows and roofs damaged; Nos.
1S5, 167, 1859, III, 49, 1S1, 1888, 1S5, 1877 and
1S9 Newark avenue, windows broken and
roofs blown off.
1t smashed windows and roofs along the
south side of Newark avenue before Its
head rushed like into funnel the foyer
of the Bijou Theatre and blew out the
half top of the high rear wall of the
Bijou Theatre, at time when rehearsals
were in progress for the production IF
''The Man Who Dared" burying Gagged
lions used in the rehearsal in the debris;
swept upward in its course, dismantliEg
a portion of the roof of the Home of the
Dominican Sisters, dismantling the bel-
fry of st. Mary's Church and leaving an
ugly scar in the roof of that noble struc
ture. Then it passed on over the the
population of the Horseshoe and did not
descend until it reached Hoboken.