The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-26
SIX KILLED IN
 WIND STORM New York and Vicinity
 Visited by a Storm. SHAMROCK IN DANGER Challenger Had a Narrow Es-
 cape From Destruction. A Derrick Blown Into the Rivsr,
 Carried Down Nine Man, Four of Whom Were Killed.
SHAMROCK IN DANGER

New York. Aug. 2S.-A terrific norkf~ west wind and electrical storm struck Sandy Hook shortly after 5 o'clock to~ day and Shamrock ILL. and Reliance, ana a fleet of half dozen yachts including the Erin, c. oliver. Sunbeam and Herre- schoff's boat were in great danger fox a. time. The yacht Eureka. breaking from her anchorage. was blown violently against a coal scow and caried the sc0W before d. It seemed for a time that ths two boats would crash into Shamrock III, which lay almost in the path of tho gale not hundred yards away The Roamer. which was dangerousfx near the Shamrock. began to drag hsE anchor. and despite the efforts to hold her, drifted down rapidly. Suddenly sh9 was sung against the Sunbeam and then getting chance to start her engines managed to get away from the dan1sf line. The Sunbeam. toos as the blow ilas creased later, again began to dFaE and in a moment went with loud cragh against the scow, which also Commences to drift and for a moment it looked aM if Shamrock III. would De overwhelmed. Captain Barr, on the Sunbeam. yelled t1 the Shamrock watch: sTf we can't hclH you'd better pull up and drift away frezn us."
 This they prepared to do. but IulI in the wind aided the Sunbeam to hold esE a while and the wind began to decrease.
 Two steam yachts the Giralda and All lita. anchored further out in the h0rsa- shoe, were torn from their anchora1e and came into bow and stern collision Tho bowsprit of one crashed through the stern of the other and the two. thus locked, drifted before the wind danger oualy near the challenger The tug Cruiser saved them. pulling them apart and away from. the other boats. Reliance lay In position more out of danger,
 Sir Thomas left the Erin before the storm broke. and with Colonel Stewart. commander of Fort Hancock. viewed the havoc in the bay anxfously from the com mander's headQuarters on Sandy Hook. Weather observers here satd the wind reached a velocity of nearly forty five knots. The sea. calm all day. was boil. ing furiously fin less. than five minutes after the gale struck. The tugs Guiding Star and Cruiser came to the rescue of the yachts and in short time lighted their tangled condition. Observers of the storm on Sandy Hook dock declared dt was only by vast good fortune that the yachts were not damaged
 In half an hour the storm broke in it's fury 1t died out as rapidly as 1t had come.
 During the height of the storm today a huge derrick on the Central Railroad of New Jersey bridge across Newark Bay form Cayenne to Elizabeth was swept from It's supports into the water. carrying with 1t nine worlkmen. Four of the mem were drowned and several badly injured At least sixty men were at work on tlaa bridge at a point half mile from the Bayonne shore. The top of the derrick was 1s0 feet from the water and nina men were working at various points up the huge structure. Gustav Fisher of Bayonne being on the very top of it. Strange to say he was about the only one to escape injury. He fell into the center of the channel and swam ashore Although he collapsed after reaching land, he seemed to be in very good condi- ton tonight.
 In the gale this afternoon two women lost their lives in Jamaica Bay. They were Mrs. John Helm and her sister, Miss Ragna M. Rasmussen of Brooklyn. They went sailing in a catboat with Mfr. Helm and the boat was upset about halg mile from shore.