Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-07-22
STORM
RAISED
ROOFS.
Was the Cause Of
Much Da m age
Saturday.
BOA rs UPSET.

After the storm Saturday results
of the heavy wind, water and light
ming were to be seen on every hand,
and it was the concensus of opinion
that the occurrence was without
precedent, with its darkness and
phenomenally severe wind and rain.
A chimney was blown down and
fell through the roof Of church at
Woodbridge, part of the roof of the
drawing room at the Atlantic terra
Gotta works at TOttenville was car
ried away; catboat with man
aboard upset in the bay, and several
boats were capsized or dragged from
their moorings; tents were blown
down on the realty property at Tot
tenville; any number of trees were
blown down; wires were blown down,
one shocking a horse fatally in South
AmbOy, and many other instances of
damage were recorded.
Two of William w. Walters row.
boats upset at their stakes, with no.
body near them, the wind turning
them completely over.
Many rocks from the hill at the
foot of Market street were washed
down and covered the road at the
foot of the hill, making it almost i'm
possible for wagons to pass. Patrol
man Whitworth reported the matter
to Sergeant Mulligan.
A live wire was down on Smith
street, near Water street. Passen-
gers coming from the ferry gave it
a wide berth.
Ashes from King and Rector
streets washed across Smith street,
some of them being carried to the op-
posite sidewalk by the torrents
which rushed through the streets.
One of the young trees on the
south side of the city hall was
snapped off by the wind.
A catboat belonging to w. w. Wal
ters upset, with an Elizabeth man
aboard, between the foot of Market
street and the light house, but a
rescue was effected by some men who
put out in powerboat, as told i'm the
NEWS Saturday.
FerrybOat i'm Trouble.
During the height of the storm the
ferryboat Warren, with Captain Ray
mond Ellis in charge, was forced to
make a landing at the Raritan dry
docks and lie there until the storm
abated. 1t became so dark and the
rain was so heavy that it was i'm
possible to see ten feet ahead of the
boat. The Warren was on it's way to
this city from Tottenville at the time,
Devastation In TOttcnville.
Tottenville was visited by one of
the worst storms that was ever
known in these parts Saturday morn
ing about 11:30 o'clock. Shortly af-
ter II o'clock heavy black cloud
appeared in the west which made it
as dark as night. 1t was accompan-
led by heavy downpour of rain and
hail, which lasted for considerable
time. The storm ragged with terrific
fury, uprooting trees, turning over
small out-houses and damaging
electric light and telephone wires in
all parts of the town.
At the Atlantic terra Gotta works
on Broadway the wind tore off the
corrugated iron roof on the pressing
shop and the drawing office. Some
of the iron was carried by the wind
over 500 feet. Several uieces land
ed In front of the Riverside Hotel
on Broadway. Considerable excite
ment reigned there for a few minutes
among the employees. Thinking the
building was being carried away they
dashed for safety. The men in the
drawing Office on the upper floor of
the terra Gotta building were also
badly frightened. Several hundred
dollars damage was done to a num-
ber of valuable drawings by the rain
that came in after the roof had been
lifted off.
(ContiEued on page 3.)