New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-24
CYCLONE CELLARS HERE.
Tkev Are Needed as Much as Ont
Hest Som etimes.

TIE cyclone which did damage estimated al
10000 al ChappaqUa a week ago. besides kill
ing one person and seriously in5urirs several
others suggests that the broad, level pralries Of
the West are not the only parts o. the country
where cyclone cellars might be used 10 advan-
-sre. The accompaniment CT q waterspout in
TIE Hudson River made the tornado al unusual
phenomenon and demonstrates that nature can
not pc depended upon 70 keep the perils OF her
different elements Unrixed. Waterspouts IN
The heart Of the land are certainly novelties.
The idea Of having cyclone cellars IN the
reighborhood OF New-Eork Is not so irrational
as one might az first think There have been
several tornadoes within radius OF fifty miles
q New-Yorl within ten years, which have car
ried death and suffering II their train and de-
stroyed property valued ct hundreds Of thou
sands OF dollars.
In The middle Of the afternoon O. July 13.
1855 storm swept down over the Watching
Mountains into Platnfeld, y. J.. which VIII long
Be remembered by aII who felt its effects or saw
its trail After filing the streets with hailstones
as big as hens eggs Erecking greenhouses and
uprooting trees, IL took bound and, clearing
the Intervening villages. bounced upon the ham
let Of Che-y Hill. destroying twenty-seven OF
SIS thirry-nine houses and crushing out three
edge Of It's trailing skirt dragged across Hills
dale. q nearby village. and then II leaped across
the Hudson River. and gave Harlem e taste OF
q real Western cyclone, doing damage 70 the
extent Of several thousand dollars. Continuing
its course eastward over the East River and
Long Island City. II fell with a bound UPON
Woodhaven and Union Course. where Il killed
e young woman. injured several other persons
and wrecked everything II touched
4 few years previous 70 this a similar storm.
swept through Bergen County. and. according TO
persons who said they were telling the truth.
hailstones as large IS bssebaIs accompanied the
tornado.
On August "a. 1901. 2 hurricane visited Jersey
City, doing damage estimated az the tine at
100000 Il lasted only SIX or seven minutes.
and its ravages were confined 10 a space two
blocks vide, bounded on the east by Barrow-st
and N the west by Varick-st It traversedsthe
city from Grand-st. 10 the Hoboken line. In
oldeu times the storm doubtless would have
been accredited 10 hosts Of invisible power.
rnarshalIed and commanded by Lucifer himself
for IL wTeaked its vengeance upon three
churches. Il threw down the side wall OF one
carried away the steeple and roof Of another
and demolished the third.
Freehold. sraithbury. Eberon and vIneland.
y J.. were visited 10y q cyclone and the damage
required al expenditure OF several thousand
dollars
or course, Paterson, the afflicted city az the
Passalc Valley. has had Its cyclones. It has
been visited by two. the second OF which was at
east as vicious as the one which devastated
cherry Hill The first traversed the country be-
tween Paterson and Little Falls. The second
occurred last year OF July 90. Four persons
were killed. scores more or less injured. sixty
r7rF 1ra.r
demolished, while possibly three hundred were
more CT less damaged. The property loss was
estinarad at 100000 It's advent was almost
-nheralded. 4 black cloud thrust itself around
Tie southern end Of Carrot Mountain and i'm
'l3-i4teiy the storm was upon the city. II WIS.,
f-l parts t.ot touched previously by the great
.F- -7l The food The path Of destruction was
.- III four hundred feet wide and II ran en-
rely across the city from southwest to north
cast The people Of Paterson had believed
themselves exempt from this form of catastro-
i2e iecause Of the mountains TO the north and
west.
Naturally, storm which itself might be con-
@-aesed a freak VIII Go freakish things. The
Haiistones which fell In the tornado which al
most wipcl out Cherry Kim and wooahaven
allied 81 Harlem large number of birds. There
Was su,h "a sudden change in the atmosphere
that many persons loEged for their winter over
coats. ard those who had frepIaces considered
themselves fortunate.
- one point IN Tie path Of the cyclone was
looi of water beside railroad track After the
passage NJ TIE storm the pool was found on the
osuer side. Tn us passage il had washed out
Ire grarel between the TIES. live crab was
fouud several miles inland near the railroad
tracA a Chcrry 1911. on Long Island twenty
six dwelling houses We're completely wrecked
Roofs acre carried thousands Of feet. and one
was carried p mile.
An irishnsn Ewing in Paterson decided after
re "bloa'' last year that this country was far
iaore strenuous than his native Emerald Isle
H was fagnan employed by the Susque-
hanna Railroad and stationed az the Park-aye
crossing. lie took refuge in his shanty from, the
Storm. The small box Of house was lifted IN
sosAy and In 10 gentle manner deposited in a
lsi5 Oh IT, other side OF the tracks He was
'ai-.esaat Llal5el ard Tor a Culg.de.aL.e time