New-York tribune., 1903-02-06
GALE CAUSES FATALITY.
HURLS BOY UNDER 4UTO.
H1Rdo7rs Shattered and Pedestrians
Tkro7cn Dozen by Blasts.

whistle and moan. laugh and shrek, young
Titan wind tore through the city yesterday at
rate Of speed that would leave the fastest of
Red Rozers or White Ghosts trailing behind.
At the rate Of sixty-fve miles an hour sped
the wind in a circle which encompassed the
entire city. now ctuckling, now groaning. now
roaring with rage like a wounded lion. now
splitting in fury. now believing like a. maddened
bull. row huunling melodiously. now shouting
in hoydenish gIee now sobbing pitifuy. BY
turns il was a prankish wind a destructive
wind, a malevolent wind. P1ayfully it blew
rats off 5okingly it forced people to postures
OF Worship vengefully it ripped signs from
their fsstenings. and wrathfully it forced hu-
nanity into positions of danger, in one instance
being responsible for fatal injury.
Il smashed plate glass windows and blew
PAPERS ,nto the eyes Of horses. causing run
ausvs. il covered the harbor with a smother Of
foam and tried to pull vessels from their anchor
sges. succeeding in some instances. 1t played
WITH man and things OF mans devising a cat
PLAYS with mouse. It iuggled men and women
q vhirwinG srins leaves in a circling mael
srron7- II turned them and twisted them; sent
them lurching forward. pulled them back top
-lirc. il banged them and slammed them and
zVun them round like teetotums until they
Essped for breath: II poked them into corners.
rsrruled them INTO buildings, hurled them into
doors. II filed their eyes with water and dust:
t- tore hats from their heads and canes from
-reir hands. il watched them walk, proud in
their strength, IN a lull; it pounced on them and
huubled them TO fatness on the sidewalk; II lay
IN v-ait like Bowery footpad, around corners
and struck them as they passed with stunning.
hsrildering force Uptown. downtown, East
SIDE West Side, this Titan raved and ramped
and roared, sweeping up TO housetop and flag
pole and hurting down sidewalk and gutter.
Around the Flatiron Building, at Twenty
1hird-st and Fifth-ave. and Broadway, 1t gave
fl}l swing TO all its giant strength There "
v5s cyclone. Like a gatling gun it shot blast
after blast. each blast in itself a compact sep
arate missile, down into the street One OF these
blasts hit the L by s foot plate glass window
I'm front Of the Hotel Bartholdi cafe. Smash,
rash went the glass shivered into q thousand
pieces and with a whoop-la, the wind followed
through the breach. What a merry rout fol-
lowed, over went tables and chairs. Whisk!
away went table linen. Jingle, tinkle, smash
vent glass and china! Then, TO leave nothing
undone. the prank cutter tumbled all together
and few out the way it entered.
Mans sober garb may be the sport Of wonlan's
Wit hut never as was womans hahilments the
rlavthing Of the wind around the Flatiron
Building They scudded before the wind like
gale driven ships; and many were the distress
signals they few. Many were those stripped OF
canvas. Who scudded along with bare poles, and
reefs availed not. Headsais- jibs and main
sheets were torn from their clews. swapping and
f7rring sloft and below. Shrieks feminine
mingled with the winds hawhaws of delight,
ana feathers and wells few anlain.
FATAL ACCIDENT.
vii dressed woman was trying TO make
her way rast the Bartholdi when she was blown
down. Her right arm was bruised and her face
severely hurt by hitting lamppost. She was
I,f-f ed ND by several men in the hotel who ran
ont and restoratives were given TO her. She
was taken home.
John NicTaggart, fourteen years old, Of No.
l1S Hooper-st Brooklyn. a messenger boy, was
s-onesi9e the Flatiron Building, when a sudden
hast blew him into the street and under an
- q g- orlobile. owned by the New-York Electric
Transportation COMPANY OF which the chauf-
<eelr aas William Reilly, Of No. 20 West One
hundred and -second-st. The automobile ran
or him He was picked up unconscious and
found TO be internally injured, An ambulance
surgeon took him TO the New-York Hospital.
here he died. Reilly was arrested.
4vrnen SEWN. nineteen years old, of No. 126
Nacdousal-st. lost control if himself in fighting
rale at Eleventh-st. and Fifth-ave-, and was
blown against the wheels of delivery wagon.
His lace was bruised but he was not badly
hurt. 4 New-Tcrk Hospital ambulance surgeon
attended him
\ man no STOOD opposite tne bTo7QNdg SIue
Of the Flatiron Building counted thirteen per
cons who were forced 10 their knees by the gale.
So-e persons would try to fight their way
through the gale. make good start and then
have 70 grab a post or get into doorway to
pre~ert being blown away.
The Wind reached a rate Of sixty-f1ve miles
an hour in the morning and kept up sixty
mile rate all DAY. At 3-25 p. m. the Weather
Bureau nan gaUged it at sixty-four miles, the
highest point Of the day except the morning.
n ,ras down to forty-two miles hour II
vas sixty at 80 and forty-eight at o'clock.
The tcr1peratlre kept around the freezing
r7o,ut 1lr7til the wind went down. when the mer-
s5srv determined 10 accompany it and went
Gown TOO II was 50 o'clock. but WAS
getting colder all the time, and the weather
In2u said il would be much colder by morning.
one Of the plateglass windows in the Broad
wav front Of the Guardian Trust Company was
broken hr : gust of wind after the close of
business The glass IN the upper sash of the
window vas cracked across, and then the wind
carried a large piece. about eight feet long ana
four or Tve across. through the sash, landing II
The mosaic floor Of the entrance 10 the offlceS-
j aas fortunate that business was over. Tor one
or tpo lolsons usually stand ut the llttie desk
under h window in business hours, making out
deposit slips or writing. The glass landed nVe or
six feet from the wall and smashed into bits
fssto in the day an awning over the nlleo
t-fssr stores Company store in the tlatiron
F,,ii6i-o v-7e blown down. and one Of the large
plate glass windows in the building ltseif "ds
broker.
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