The evening world., 1903-07-23
nc APPEAL FOR AID,
81 CITY OFFICIALS SAY.
Before Municipality Declares
4 1t Will Care for Its Own Desti-
j tute - Anarchy, Fire and
Flood Have Brought Misfor-
tune to Stricken City.
especial 20 The Evening world.)

A OF this community, for they have with
Z An the past few years been shocked by
a{nfths worst of crimes, ineinerated by a
tSooo.ooo fire. inundated by floods and
t8rrorised by striking Anarchists who
~ make this place their national head
~Dsuuarters.
s .To-day sixty-hve families are home
4 Hess as the result OF the latest calamity
II - the community. many are. In the hos
:pltais or. with friends suffering from Sc
5ftre injuries and three are dead.
~ AWhen the whole country was shocked
ny the entire Bosschieter case the good
6olk said 'sWhat ncxt?' Ministers of
the gospel declared that Paterson was
the worst town morally In the United
States. and they predicted that divine
wrath would surely fall upon Its resi-
~ dents. The superstitious believe nov
! u tfhdt this prediction has come true and
that the worst is yet to come. The
city has been vnriously termed as tho
SffiS"vestibule of Hades.'' ''Heil's kitchen
jSsand the "tosVnr or hard luck" while In
surance men only look upon it as n
spot on the mnp.
s1fyfA wag recently directed an envelope
to John Smith. care OF His Satanic Ma
5esty." and the New York POST
onicials after much debate sent
inc miss've with the odd superscrlptlon
II 10 Paterson.
Police Captain John Bimson. While
looking over the ruins of yesterdays
tornado that scraped off housetops for
a distance Of miles, said:
Last Straw for City.
4 81 guess this is the last straw. !
fhl1i (nmn0t think IF anv other Hlaa utar that
@sAis likely to come our way. As Bret
ytsi4Iarte's gambler. John oakhurst, sail
,<,;irvhen Poker Flats got too warm for
> him. There is one sure thing about luck;
its bound TO turn / guess our luck Is
the turn now
Mayor Hinchliffe, who has been at the
head OF Paterson's municipality in all
her troubles Of the last three years,
was not In town to-day. He is at Man
= & haitian Beach. The Mayors secretary.
- Wilham L. Dill. said:
1--WE don't need any outside assist
lnnce. Most OF the damage was done
lan the poorer part of the city, but the
y homeless are being cared for by friends.
.'While twenty-five houses were ruined
and damage to the extent of $3.50, 90
dome. the path of the tornado was away
from the big silk mills so that the
waces of the heads OF the homes wiped
out viii 20 on lust the same"
~ Mr.. Dill tried to get uhe Mayor on the
ilong-dlstance telephone. but he could
not locate him. There is no rea, pow
erty or suffering from the tornado and
the police have taken every precaution
z To preyent any footing.
i 49, .. -. ,..
~
,se The storm was the worst In the his
tory of-the city and like all tornadoes
was due 10 TWO connecting currents OF
Z air meeting at a high altitude over
Carrot Mountain and then forming u
funnel that swirled over the earth's sur
face, twisting and wrenching every
movable thing 1t came In contact with.
Along Park avenue and Broadway beau
AS tiful trees that bad shaded these thor
~ oughfares for fifty years and more were
w nes'royeo' Dut hahusoNhe homes OF 'he
tx aes 49,
800 y, 80 a"u :. .a'. aIo.s e,oiS
3 80 - 81. D' -
.sy VS. NV po 800 ''ppeu ~
~ 10y
~ noo.u nar, =, ~.
Inc mos@-peeaHar part OF the storm
was The way the wind hit a house at
Smith and Dover streets. 1t turned tho
,wo.storv strnct,re rns,do dn,n On
-tae nrst hoor lived Mrs. William Rob
inson and on the second Mrs. James
Smith AS the house rolled over ,I,n
the roof where the cellar should ba the
women were terrified and thought the
Isnd Of fr the aoS world had come Neither