The sun., 1901-08-25

! of raftsrs which were lying around they
! lifted the mass of wreckage which tied my
! husband down. When they pulled him
out I thought he was dead. but since he
has been taken 10 the hospital have heard
that he will recover"
| r.ented peculiar appearance. II stands
| in the CENTRE Of a large orchard Upon
all four sides OF the houss big trees were
blown in upon the roof smashing cornices.
caves and porches. In many places the
| roof was perforated and the contents of
| the house were lady damaged. A thirty
| foot-high barn upon the Ieary farm was
moved bodily eighteen feet. while sloop
which was anchored In the bay in front 81
| the house was lifted out Of the water and
carried nearly i50 feet inland.
The house Of the Greenyille Gun Club
which faces New York hay was was wiped
out as completely as though It had been
dynamited.
| Some Of the heavy floor plankings which
rested ON piles were hurled into the Morris
Canal a. the hack uf tho building, sticking
In tho bad Of the canal a. firm and upright
as II they had been driven by a piledriver.
while along the beach the plsnks at inter
vas were forced deeply into the sand.
Dozens Of tomh~tones were blown down
In the New York Bay Cemetery, and many
trees were uprootcd Some Of these trees
were carried across the tracks Of the main
line of the Jersey Central Railroad, which
runs along the lower end Of the cemetery.
For more than an hour the line was blocked.
until a gang of about sixty men with axes
and levers cleared the tracks
| II was thes.' failing trees which broke
| down the telegraph wires and until late
| hour last night only one wire was available
for communication between the stations
OF the main line. The Philadelphia cN-
| press. which left Jersey city at Z O'Clock
came into contact with these broken trees
| The car steps upon the right side of thetrain
| were torn away and the sides Of the cars
were damaged Not sufficient injury was
sustained. however. TO prevent the eN-
| press ontInuing IN Its way.
la the upper part Of Jersey City the tor
nado wrecked a theatre, tore the roof on
OF one Of the largest churches. took the
| entire steeple on Of another, uprooted two
| Of the finest parks in the city-one Of them
almost completely the roofs on Of
scores OF stores and fine residence OVER
turned wagons and did about every hing
else except kill and injure many people,
| The police had formed no estimate last
| night as TO the damage, as II was impossible
20 get an estimate Of the damage in private
houses That !, would be more than si5o.-
90 was thought very conservative esii-
| mate.
wREcNs A THEATRE
The destruction wrought al the Isl iou
Theatre. one Of Jersey City's newest theatres
affords the hes, illustration OF the terrific
force OF the wind. Entering the theatre
by the front doors while a rehearsal was
In progress the wind filed il until ths force
of IL was too great for the rear wal OF the
ediflce. two feet thick. to stand and with
| crash and n roar two-thirds Of II fell Outw ard
In fragments.
| Despite this great violence OF the wind
| and the destruction with which Il filled the
streets up to midnight last evening the
| police had received only n few reports of
people i-ing injured. and the injuries in
,hasr cases were mostly slight and caused
by broken glass for the most part
WHAT TORNADO LOOKED LIKE.
| II was about O'Clock when people first
| noticed the cloud. IL had been raining
| pretty hard and about the time they no
ticed the cloud it began TO rain harder
| Pretty soon 1t was raining - hard tina
1t was difficult to -ee anything. Never
theless. some OF the people took note OF
the cloud as it approached According
| 90 most accounts, IL was a black cloud
| but had not assumed the shape Of funnel
| a. do most tornsdos. One man described
| II 20 Sun reporter as being pointed, like
| a hock Of geese II came along with
the speed Of raoehorss and had engulfed
houses and people before they knew IL,
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| wind burst furiously.
| Il took the grain Office in the jersey
| Central wards near the Cl-rmont station
and hurled II bodily against an engine
| thirty feet away When Il struck the en-
gine II burst into fragments and the en-
| sinc was buried. Inside the engine was a n
engineer. fireman and conductor. All
| OF them were cut in many places. but the
wounds were slight. No one was in the
| house Along the bay shore the storm
completely demolished a score Of shsnties
occupied by hborers. II wrecked tho
Robinson farmhouse on the shore near the
cemetery. tearing the roof Oh.
| In the more closely built part Of Jersey
| civ the storm didn't begin 20 raise ructions
| particulsrly until IL struck Bright street
| Thor. n tore some roofs of Righ. In its
| nlfnNAN was MI NOiNA owning
square block between York and Mont
| somerv strre,- and Barrow and Jersey
avenues The park IL bounded on all sides
bv residences. II was considered the
finest park IN the city. IL contained more
| than one hundred white maple trees, some
of them seven,y.fve feet high. How IL
struck the park = best described by Dr.
q q. Dickinson. whose house Is in Mont
romery sirec, opposite the park
4 was sitting At my front window watch
ing q rain said he 'and suddenly IL be
ran Co darken and rain harder. Not a
p~r-on was IN the street as far a. ! could
| sce Then I saw the cloud bearing down
on the park I, --em"d "a bc a ma-- of
vat,orish clouds going around and around
h,,t not In funnel shape There were s,reaks
| in tie clouds The mas hit the park ana
A. was simply impos-ibl. "a s~e anything
| \ r,,uld hear th. tres going though. and
ot. report after another tho roofs az
sluos, every house including the Union
! League Club hou~e. were blown ~
i oJ,-tsed NV doors 10 l-' the wind 60
rxla through my hou-o and in that ~ay
| I mini | saved u a. were rism m the