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HEAVY DAMAGE AT ROCkAWAY.
Baby Cyclone Seemed Likely to blow
Trains on the LOng Island Trestle.

Baby Cyclone Seemed Likely to blow
Trains on the LOng Island Trestle.
In Jamaica Bay nearly 500 boats were
wrecked. They included craft OF all sizes,
from rowboats to steam yachts. Most OF
them were torn from their moorings and
flung against the trestle OF the Long Island
Railroad, leaving half a mile OF wreckage
over the railroad tracks and stopping traffic
on the Rockaway branch for several hours.
The sO-foot yacht Scud in command OF
Capt. George Freeland. with ten persons
aboard, was forced against the trestle and
capsized. Her crew and passengers were
taken to Rockaway Beach on Long Island
railroad engine. The yacht was left hang
ing against the bridge, the sea washing over
her and her mast lying across the trestle.
Several trains, one Of them with the
Cedarhurst Clubs private car attached,
were stalled on the trestle where the wind
seemed to the passengers to threaten to
topple them into the bay. While waiting
for the tracks TO be cleared, the passengers
saw half a dozen boats capsized. Their
occupants were rescued, when the wind
abated, by boats which put out from the
Rockaway shore.
Along Rockaway Beach several small
hotels were unroofed and one big one, the
Oriental, was almost blown to pieces. Tie
roof went out TO sea and the floor OF the
dancing pavilion followed minute later,
carrying the furniture with 1t.
Chimneys, trees and cottage roofs in
Rockaway Park we're blown several hum
bred feet from the places they stod. Man
ager Duncan of the Park company and
laborers built dam along the beach and
averted great deal Of damage.
Mrs. Augusta Campbell, the wife OF q
bayman at Rockaway saw a man waving
for help from the wreckage of a capsized
houseboat and rowed out to him. We was
Nicholas Bosset an oysterman, Mrs. Camp
bell rowed him ashore.
Sixteen of the Jamaica Bay Yacht Club
boats we're wrecked The two-masted
fishing schooner Czarina Augusta from
Baldwin's was washed ashore on the
ocean side of Rockaway beach, near the life
saving station below Belle Harbor The
life savers found no one on board.
Al Edgemere the tide rose so high that
the bay and ocean met, stopping traffic
for several hours Oh the Rockaway trolley
line.
Late last night the father-in-law Of Ben
jamin Dunbar. an engineer on the Long
Island Railroad, reported to the police that
Dunbar had not been seen since he started
out in sailboat from Rockaway on fishing
exc,rsiOn
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STORM DAMAGES HOSPITAL.
Jersey city Institution FlOOded-Other
Damage In the City.

Yesterdays storm did much damage
al the City Hospital in Jersey City and
caused lots of trouble for the nurses and
eighty patients. he hospital buildings
consist OF ,liree old frame structures at
Baldwin avenue and Montgomery street.
They were built many Gears ago.
The wind blew in panes OF glass in the
mems and women's wards, and the rain
beat in through holes in the roots, Water
poured in streams on patients and nurses
and attendants were kept busy shifting
cots TO dry spots. Some OF the sick folks
hcld umbrellas over their heads and others
tried to catch the dripping water in pans.
iiole, were bored in the Fl Iors Of the lower
wards after the storm 10 let the water run
out.
.Atwo-story frame house built on wooden
plle, at : Terrace avenue, was lifted and
carried ten feet into the adjoining lot. Mrs.
Frank Kennedy, !; tenant and John Ryan,
tine Owner, were in tho building bit were
l.nhurt The rear wall of a power house
which the Pubic Service Corporation ID
building az Palisate avenue and Ferry
street was wrecked by the wind, causing
s. UCO damage.
The Franco American Food Company S
building at Central avenue and Franklin
street was partly unroofed and the roofs Of
n dozen houses were blown of The ferry
house at the foot Of Pavonia avenue wfs
inundated and he water ran into the wait
ing room Of the Erie depot Passengers
had to walk panhs o reach boats
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Mrs. johnson insisted on going below to
get $500 she had in her bedroom. and was
pulled ashore only minute before the
boat turned over and,sank among the other
wrecked craft.
or Point Breeze at the mouth Of Sleeps
head Bay inlet, two schooners foundered.
Men could he seen cinging to the rigging
Of one Of them and many attempts were
made to launch surf boats to get them. put
the sea flung the boats on tn" beach ike
chips. AT this point the waves ran twenty
tcri high The aChooners drifted on the
,nndLYr Of plum Island Their Crews re-
manned on them Till last night when four
men in n surf boat took them ashore.
IA ttaN,Nrnu lay al least hundred
ioatS iuchdlng every type from l8-foot
rowboat To a ?5n-ton schooner. were wrecke
al the mouth of Coney Island Creek. The
schooner was tcached at the foot Of Twenty
first avenue.
In the bay. about half mile rom shore,
an ttip X IN Dad sand schooner was sunk
Ii was in collision with another schooner
the SILVER Ray Capt Bradley OF the sand
schooner and his crew of five men climbed
into the rigging and hung on for an hour
before Capt. Brennan and his men on The
Silver Ray succeeded in resouing them
The Silver Ray finally went ashore on
Bcnsonhurst Capt. Bradley said he had
left five men on the beach on Rockaway
Point They had no shelter and he feared
for their lives
The sIoop Mascot owned by Norman /"
Munro dragged her anchor OF the MAJ me
and Field Club and Grifted out toward
Quarantine. On her were Mate Charles
Jouscn and FIVE men, Half way out the
bay Mite Jonsen saw a man in q rowboat
struggling against the waves and went to
the rescue with the sloop's tender. The
mist and rain hid both tender and ro"boal
and last night nothing had been heard OF
Mate Jonsen or the man he went to esclie
A arhtha launch owned by } J. OCon-
nell Of 1908 Pacific street Brooklyn. was
ont in the bay when the storm broke In
II we're f. r. Stringer and William Bios
sam They tried to run ashore. but IN
forcing the boat along an explosion oc-
Cured, knocking both men UNCONSCIOUS
in the bottom Of the launch. She drifted
az; ms. the Captains Pier at Bath Beach.
where the men were hauled as' ore A
doctor revived them.
A lumber schooner went on the rocks on
Fort Hamt on where she pounded 10 pieces
and sank.
One of the craft wrecked in Graveeend
Ray was Herreshof boat the Sandplper.
given by August Belmont to Arthur ted
fern, the Jockey The damage along the
bay shore is estimated at S2C0o 900.
Ont Of forty craft owned by the Brooklyn
Yacht Club only five survived the storm
A dance VAS scheduled to take place in
the clubhouse last night II was called on
and the club members held wake instead.
The New York Canoe Club lost its entire
fleet
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ART OF REST.
May he Acquired and Used with Great
BENEFIT.

Complete and restful poise of the body
and mind is an art not easily gained.
Perhaps nothing brings one as much
content, comfort, happiness and pleasure
as those conditions OF easy, restful, re.
sourceful and we'll balanced mind and
body, that make of wor pleasure and
the daily life happy and peaceful.
The nervous housewife busy with
hundred duties and harassed by chill
dren; the business man, worried with the
press of daily affairs, debts. etc, cannot
enioy the peace and restful repose and
know how.
There is a way. First and foremost
the stomach must be consulted. That
means leaving off coffee absolutely, for
the temporary stimulant and the result
ing depression is sure ruin to the ner.
yo,,s system, and the whole condition of
health and happiness rests upon stomach,
nerves and mind.
Start with the stomach. that is the key
stone of the whole arch. Stop using
things that break down it's power, upset
it's nervous energy and prevent the
proper digestion of the food and the con-
seoIlent manufacture of healthful blood
and nerves, brain and tissues
When YOU quit coffee take OH Postum
Food Coffee. That is like stopping the
payment of interest and starting on
career where you are loaning money and
receiving interest, The good results are
double You stop poisoning the system
with coffee and start building up the
broken down nerve cells by powerful
clements contained in Postum. These
are pure food elements ably selected by
experts for the purpose OF supplying
just the thing required by Nature to
perform this rebuilding
These are solid substantial facts and
can be proven clearly to the satisfaction
of anyone, by personal experience. Try
the change yourself and note how the
old condition of shattered nerve, and
worried mind changes to that feeling Of
restful poise of we'll balanced nervous
system
The managing physician Of hygienic
sanitarlllm in Indiana says that for five
wears in his practice he has always in
sisted upon the patients leaving off cof-
fee and taking Postum Food Coffee with
the most positive well defined results
and with satisfaction 10 the most con-
frmed coffee tOIc:.
The Doctors name will be furnished
by the Postum Co., Ltd. Battle Creek
Mich.
Look in each packn &c for a copy Of
the famous little book, THE Road to
MELVILLE Adr
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@FTEN A MAN
" who calls merely
to confer about Printed
Matter looks through
the windows Of The
CHELTENHAM Press
and sees his business in
a new perspective.
$50 Fifth Avenue
Southwest Corner Twentieth Street.
CHIRCH STEEPLES INJURED.
Police Warn Passersby Away From ~.
BarthOlOmew's.

In this borough and in BROOKLYN, church
steeples were marks for the wlndstorm.
That of st. Bartholomew Church at Forty
fourth street and Madison avenue was so
much shaken that the Rev DR., David II.
Greer. the rector, notified the Building
Department
An emergency inspector was sent AROUND
and two workmen went up into the steeple.
They reported that the masonry and IRON
work we're in bad condition. Policemen were
detailed to keep passersby out OF the danger
zone. The top of the steeple Is about
200 feet above the ground
There are two great gaps in the north
side of the l5O-foot steeple Of the Church OF
the Holy Apostles at Twenty-eighth street
and Ninth avenue. Boards from the splre
came Gathering down into the yard, and
some were blown across the Ninth avenue
elevated structure, smashing the top Of
an iron shed at 800 Ninth avenue,
After the storm the church carpenter
went up inside the steeple and braced the
wooden skeleton. Inspectors from the
Building Bureau called there at O'Clock,
and decided that the steeple was safe for
the present.
The wind caused the fall OF two brick
turrets on the front Of the First Place
Methodist Episcopal church at the corner
of Henry street, Brooklyn, These were ten
feet high. Two Of the four remaining tur-
rets are shaky.
The steeple Of the South Congregational
Church at Court and Congress streets,
Brooklyn, will have to be rebuilt. The
spire is Of wood with steel skeleton.
The slate steeple Of the Noble Street
Presbyterian Church. in Greenpoint, was
so strained that pieces Of slate and brick
dropped to the roof. 1t was feared that
the steeple might collapse and policemen
from the Greenpoint avenue station were
put on guard.
From the steeple of the White Church al
Blshwick avenue and Himrod street. 9
number of the timbers fell.
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VARSHIPS LAY WITH STEAM JP.
II Blew AlarminEly Hard At Their Anchor
age on Staten Island.

All of the yachts Of the Staten Island
Yacht Club were torn from their moorings
and many drifting down the Bay were
battered to pieces. The pilot boat Hermit,
formerly the James Gordon Bennett, was
thrown among the upturned yachts. pound
ing a hole in her starboard side. She now
lies high and dry on shore. Her crew Of
five men chung to her until she was beached.
The schooner Republic, lying of Clifton.
dragged her anchor and. drifting against
the brigantine Matawan. was stove in and
began to sink, The wrecking steamer
William Chapman towed her out Of deep
water and pumped her out,
Tho warships lying off SiapIeton kept
I'D steam during the storm TO be prepared
for anything that might happen. For a
time it was feared that the Kearsarge and
Alabama would break from their moorings
AT South Beach dance halls end concert
pavions were wrecked Severa persons
were hurt by falling trees and flying tim
her. No less of life had been reported
late last nj Qhi
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BAYONNE CITY HALL SUFFERS.
Windows Smashed and Oficials' Omces
Flooded Schooner Ashore.

Bayonna suffered the full fury of yester-
days storm and many thousand dollars
damage was done. On the east side of
the city hall half a dozen big plate glass
windows we're smashed and within half
an hour the Offices of Mayor Seymour.
City Treasurer Trask, City Clerk Hamilton.
Chief of Police Magner and several others
were flooded Constabl Hook. where the
Standard Oil Company and other large
concerns are situated, was entirely cut OF
from the rest of the city, there being
SURFING stream for mile west of Railroad
avenue Thousands Of workmen were
kept prisoners until late last night. while
others crossed on RATS. School children
were taken home in wagons and coaches.
1t is estimated that fully fifty yachts
and score of rowboats were carried on
the rocks where they pounded themselves
into kindling wood. The boats belonged
to members of the Pavonia and Hiawatha
Yacht clubs and Bayonne Rowing Assoc
citation. The Ansonia. a large white
schooner on its way from Connecticut to
B,rnsglt, was caught Of Robbins Reef.
The crew vainly tried to make the light
house and then lowered all sail and let the
storm carry the boat.
1t was landed on the rocks half way up
TO the Central Railroad tracks near Thirty
third street Among the ruined yachts
were a number OF fast racers.
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STRIPPED TO SWIM ron LIFE.
sixteen Men Jumped when Their Boat
was Wreck ed and Got 10 shore.

ROCKVILLE CENTRE, l. l., Sept 49, Six
teen persons who left here early this morn
ing for the fishing banks in an auxiliary
boat gave themselves over for lost in the
midst Of the storm. For an hour they
stood in their boat, which was filed almost
10 the gunwhac5. stripped TO the skin,
ready to try to swim out the storm ii their
boat should capsize.
IN the party were Postmaster Howard
futile. Chris Lynch, proprietor OF the
Rockville Centre Hotel John Roach, Edward
Garry, James Bennett and his boy, VIII
liam Lester and John Rodman, The others
we're also we'll known in this section
Finally the boat made jamaica Bay.
A few minutes later the sail was carried
away and the boat drifted helplessly Then
each one doHnsd trousers and ali under
shirt and prepared for the wreck which
they knew would not be long IN coming
In half an hour the boat was driven against
the Long Island Railroad trcstlc and those
on board leaped overheard The tide was
high and this enabled all to reach the trestle
They made their way 20 Rockaway and
were cared for They reached home this
evening completely worn out
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ATLANTIC CITY HOTELS HIT.
None OF Them Got on without Some DAM
aKe-Yachts Break Loose.

ATLANTIC CITY, n. j., Sept. 16.-Atlantic
City has seen no such storm for twenty
wears as that which struck the coast side
early this morning. The wind blew at
velocity of seventy miles and there isn't
a hotel on the beach front that did not
suffer.
The Government telephone wire con-
Meeting all the life saving stations along
the Jersey coast was put out OF business
and nothing whatever can be learned OF
the loss to shipping, if there was any.
The schooner rugged steam yacht Arrow
of Philadelphia and the sloops Tillie Covert I.
Cornet and several smaller craft broke
loose from their moorings in Gardner's
Canal and crashed into Col, Bradley's
boathouse, damaging it TO such an extent
that il will have 70 be rebuilt. II is the
finest boathouse in the basin. Assessor
David Barrett boathouse was blown
over, but his launches we're uninjured.
The Suburban Traction Company Of
Pleasantville was severely hit by the storm.
The power house and rolling stock we're
destroyed, entailing loss OF $50, 900. The
company had been in operation but a
few weeks.
A portion Of the front roof of the Strand
Hotel fell, closing all means Of exit from
the main entrance. The handsome glass
dome over the dining room crashed in
lust before the breakfast hour and did con-
siderable damage to the interior Of the
house The guests became greatly alarmed
but we're soon Gained when told that there
was no danger of further damage,
The iron Cornice Of the Dunlop Hotel
roof was torn loose and nearly all of the
| windows of the hotel facing the board
| ,,, II, ,rar, IN, abaJ NDupp' Hot q esra nod
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yArHTs DAM.GED At NEW MAVEN
Half a Dozen Vessels Wrecked jlulk az
the NPrnOnah Gets Loose.

NEW HAVEN sept 10 Inc hurricane
wrecked about bali dozen Of the boats
Of the New Haven Yacht club They were
anchored near the yacht club, and were
swept from their mooringn against the
Gibbs dock The Peerless owned by
LAWYER Charles Hamilton, had hole
stove in her side and sank
The hulk Of the yacht Wecuonah. owned
by s B Roosevelt, cousin Of President
Roosevelt, whiCL waa IN collision with n
steamer of Falkuer's Island n month ago.
WAS torn from its moorinRr near the New
Haven Yacht club and pounded against
several Of the clubs yachtr, doing them
great deal Of damage
Great waves washed away about half Of
the Savin Rock. the summer resort, five
miles from this ctv capt Lawrence
O'Nei n borgnman. while trying 10 max"
he New Haven harbor IRE akw8t"r was
swept from his coal boa and drov ned
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StNKEN TUG THE JAMES KAY.
One OF several Graft That Came TO Grief
IN East River.

The slnken tugboat that was seen when
the Presidents Yacht was coming down
through He'll Gate yesterday was the James
Kay She was bound up the river when
the storm broke and was driven on the
rocks at Hogs Back. Capt Carl Larsen
and his crew Of two men swan TO Wards
Island and were dried out in the State
Hospital
The tug was towing the lumber barge
Florence S Lockwood Five men on the
barge we're rescued by Capt Arthur
j Scofeld n Hell Gate pilot. who put out
in small lteboat
The schooner coal barge Lucy Hughes
of New Brunswick, bound for Providence
went aground Oh the s,Jiihrm Meadows
and wa hauled of by thctug James Hughes
The schooner Lucy v Hall, bound for Sag
Harbor, was blown aground in the Bronx
Kills and was hauled of by the tug Glen
Cove Then a swell flooded the tugs
engine room and the schooner was set aurilt
again and blown against several smaller
craft anch 1red in the Kills
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JERSEY COAST HARD HIT.
Hotels and Cottages DamaEed-Asbliry's
Boardwalk Withstands the Waves.

Boardwalk Withstands the Waves.
Lone BRANCH. N. j., Sept. 1e-Thousands
of dollars worth of damage was done here
to trees, shrubbery, hotels and cottages
by the storm.
At Seabright thirty feet Of the W. E.
Conner pier was blown to sea. This was
due to the floating Of an old wreck
which had been buried in the sands.
The roofs of the Octagon Hotel, the PENN
sua House and the balustrades Of the Sea-
bright Inn suffered. DR.. j. j. Reeds house
on Ocean avenue was damaged, while
windmill on the property OF Gen. H. L.
Terrell, on the Rumson ro1d. was levelled
to the ground.
lighthouses were wrecked and trees up
root ed all along the ocean drive. At North
Long Branch. Mrs. Meta Hammerslough's
bungalow, in course of e ect ion. was blown
down and ruined. The West End Hotel
and the Boos cottage on Ocean avenue,
occupied by Judge Andrew Kirkpatrick,
were damaged.
Several hotels were unroofed and in
Asbury Park more than two hundred trees
we're uprooted. The boardwalk stood
the fury OF the blast, however. It trem-
but the water had free scope underneath
and did little damage.
Telegraphic and telephone communica-
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Steamer and schooner In Collision.

NINFYARD HAVEN. Mass. Sept 10 News
was received here to-day Of a collision
bet ween the schooner Horace Peck Of
Sew Haven, Capt Campbell. and the
steamer Kowa, bound from Boston for
Charlestown and Jacksonville between
Cape Pogc and Cross Rip. The schooner
was badly damaged, but the injury to the
steamer Was not serious he accident
occurred late Yesterday The steamer
took the Peck IN tow and anchored her
off the mouth Of this harbor and then pro-
ceedcd IT, her destination
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ton is suspended. and poles are down
everywhere. Reports from Belmar state
that the entire boardwalk was destroyed.
At Spring Lake $50 feet OF the boardwalk
was swept to sea. A carriage containing
two men was swept Of the bridge at Wreck
Pond. The men were rescued. Roofs
were blown from the Allaire Hotel, Parker
House and Lake House.
At Allenhurst half Of the boardwalk was
lifted into the air and thrown backward
into Ocean avenue.
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."H Gs.s!EE WITH |iT moor.


Besides ioSing It's entire telegraph system
for q time and having the road blockaded
by fallen trees and telegraph poles the
Long Island Railroad had plenty Of other
troubles "a a result Of the storm While
the Riverhead freight bound west war
passing between Mneola and Hyde Park
the roof OF a box car was carried away
by the gale with Walter Lewis and George
Is Snyder, brakemen, cIinglng for their
lives.
rhs roof was carried 100 feet from the
track when II collapsed by striking tree,
and the men were thrown 10 the ground
They were taken 10 the Nassau Hospital
In Minsola where II IL said that the IN
,I!Tias VI 9th iJ.8. 2Ts probably !utaJ
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SHEETS RIDE IRON THE STORM
Millions Came Over From Jersp, with
Yesterdays Weather,

The cyclone from New Jersey scooped
up a million mosquitoes, rotated them,
advanced with them, and dropped them
by the bucketfuI along with the garnered
v,pors OF the sea. on the poor and per
spring heads of us mortals who live north
OF the state Of Red Mud. The mosquitoes
survived the voyage and took out natural
ization papers written in blood.
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by Charles W. Holt, New York restaurant
man, slipped her anchor chain of the Larch-
mont Yacht Club and was driven on I'm
brella Point where she Was pounded to
pieces. The crew, captain and four men.
made their escape by jumping into the
Sound. They were rescued by members
OF the yacht club and boatmen connected
with tho club. The yacht was 90 feet over
all
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THE GOV. AMES IN DISTRESS.
Fiye.Nasted Schooner sighted at Anchor
With All Her Sails Gone.

NORFOLK, Va, Sept. l8-The steamer
Princess Anne arrived here at O'Clock to-
night from New York. 10 hours late. She
reports that she sighted the fi~e-masted
schooner Gov Ames in distress. She was
anchored fourteen miles northeast of Win
ter Quarter light All sails were gone,
but the schooner. though in distress, was
making good weather, and the captain
wished to be reported.
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CARRIED BIRDS FROM TROPICS.
Halr.Feathered Creatures Swept up From
the south 10 Newport News

NEWPORT NEWS. Va, Sept lo.-The
rain storm last night was accompanied
by a downpour Of small birds such as had
never been seen here. The wind blew
furiously From its encircling grasp there
fell fock Of half feathered birds that
had evidently been caught up in tropics
and borne here. Az the late visitors left
Hotel Chamberlin they slipped over the
battered birds At residences in Fort the
occupants were startled by the striking Of
birds against the windows These birds are
about the size of wrens and are not fully
feathered Eighteen birds were picked
up in the doorway of the express COM
Danv