Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-25
TOTTENvILLE.
THE STORM IN
TOTTENVILLE.

4 Ii 10 q ~ ~ r+AN
day afternoon at $3.50 o'clock. 1t was
accompanied by a heavy shower OF
| big hailstones, some of them that
were picked up and measured were
found to be eight and a half inches
in circumference. John Boss, the
| proprietor of the Tottenville Hotel,
has a diagram of one picked up in
front of his place in Main street that
measured two and a half inches in
diameter and one inch and a half
thick.
The storm ragged with terrific fury
and there is hardly. a house in town
that escaped damage, windows being
smashed, shingles ripped from roofs
and shutters splintered.
The Atlantic Terra Gotta, in
Broadway, had more than five hum
bred panes destroyed. The Lehman
building, corner Main street and
Broadway, suffered most in the lower
part of town, having had forty-two
large panes smashed and n of the
large plate glass show windows
cracked.
st. Paul's church had four of the
large memorial windows that had
recently been put in the front Of the
church, damaged. All the public
buildings suffered. The Carnegie
library, in Amboy avenue, had ten
large windows broken. Every church
was damaged and a large plate glass
in Fl. Levinson's dry goods store, in
Main street, was smashed and the
rain and hail did considerable dam
age to stock in the window.
All hotels had from Ten to forty
panes broken. Tottenville hotel had
twenty broken. West End thirty
nine, Morten House thirty-five, Eu-
.reka ten, Aquehonga ten, Scranton
House sixteen, Obriens cafe fifteen,
Island House ten and at the Ferry
Hotel most every pane was broken
on the north side of the house.
On a train of four cars, in charge
of Conductor Daniel Hayes, which
was leaving the depot at the time for
st. George, had nearly every pane
demolished and passengers were
thrown in a panic and jumped upon
seats in the opposite side of the car
from which the h%ailstones were COM
ing.
The ferryboat Warren had most
of her glasses On the starboard side
broken.
Hadkin's bottling works lost fifteen
panes. Considerable damage was
wrought at the shipyards of A.. c.;
Brown & Sons, Cosseys and H. G..
Ellis C Son had nine glasses smash
ed on the new houseboat being built.
Three or four runaways were re-
ported caused by the hail. When
the storm was at its height a horse
belonging to J.. Derickson & Sons,
grocers, ran from the store in Main
street TO the stable in Broadway, but
no damage was done. He was found
later standing at the stable door. e.
F. Tiltinghast had his horse and light
buggy standing in front of H. e.
Spraguets when the storm first broke
and started to drive him to a shed
nearby, when the horse became un-
manageable in front of the post office
and ashed down Main street at a
tremendous rate and to prevent HIM
self and horse. going off the dock at
the foot of the Street, he threw the
animal in front of the Morton house
and with a quick jump he was out of
the wagon beside his head and with
the aid of Fireman Gilmartin, of 101
truck, he was prevented from getting
away without doing any more dam
age outside of a broken shaft. An
drovett & Morrissey, the ice dealers,
had both of their teams to run away.
One ran away from in front OF the
Red Front grocery up Butler avenue
to Amboy emu and was stopped
by the house being in the street, and
the pole was snapped off. The other
was a single wagon which was being
driven by George Bishop and was
coming out of Sleight venue at the
time, ran up Amboy avenue and came
very near going through the front
window of the Aquehonga Hotel, the
wheel becoming wedged into a post
prevented the horse from going any
further. The shafts were broken
completely off the wagon.
A number of people witnessed the
giant waterspout and said 1t was one
of the most remarkable sights they
had even seen. J. Lester Bedell, OF
.Amboy avenue, who was out in his
launch, saw the squall coming and
headed his boat for Perth Amboy
and reached B%unten's dock just in
time. The rear of his launch was
damaged considerably. In the boat
with him at the time was Elmont Be
dell. Both we're struck by the stones
and received several bruises. G. I.
VanDuzen, of Broadway, who was on
the Epworth League trolley ride to
New Brunswick, was cut just 0
the eye by a hailstone as he was pass
ing from one car to another. Several
other cases have been reported OF
people being hit by the flying missiles
which were as hard as flint. a num-
Der of people gathere the h~ailstones
and put them in ice boxes and were
showing them yesterday as a great
curiosity. Several people gathered
them and froze cream with them.
Richmond Valley, Pleasant Plains
Kreischerville and Eltingville surfer
ed severely. At the latter place
lightning struck a double frame
house owned and occupied by Everitt
H. Robertson. The building took hre
and was totally destroyed. Damage
covered by insurance to the amount
of $4,000.
Telephone, telegraph and electric
light wires were down and the towT
was almost in total darkness at night
A. MA Toratfn considerable dam