New-York tribune., 1908-02-03
WIND GETS VICTIM.
ANOTHER DIES FROM COLD
Harsh, Stiff Gale Turns City TOpsy-
IurTU

With a falling temperature and the wind dow
| ing stiff gale for more than twenty-four hours,
| yesterday day to be out of doors Two
| men were reported victims of the weather, one
having been frozen to death, while the other had
| his breath blown of his body by the wind
Roofs ctimneys and display signs all over the
| city blown down, and many persons were
| injured by falling material.
| Occasional furres OF snow swept down during
the afternoon, but the sky unclouded in the
morning when the grounding came out Of his
hole and, seeing his shadow, retreated for an
other snooze Soon after midnight on Sunday
morning the mercury began falling. until by
late yesterday afternoon it had reached 16 de-
grees. Few persons ventured ont during the
rest of the evening. Even the Bowery seemed
comparatively deserted and attendants at the
Municipal Lodging House had their hands full
providing for the applicants for lodging
According to the weather bureau the maxi
mum velocity of the wind fifty-four miles
but its effect was increased by its duration. TIL"
gale was blowing ofshore and caused of
the lowest tides the North and East rivers have
seen in long while. When the tide at the
extreme ebb the aprons" of the ferry slips were
santed far down that horses had to hurry TO
keep their wagons off their legs,
Snow fell in furries all during the afternoon
and evening. Just enough came down to make
every step of horses pedestrians dangerous.
Meanwhile the wind tearing off every loose
part of houses and stores in every quarter Of the
greater city and in the smaller towns around it.
During the morning double chimney on the
roof of "A four story house at No. 6OJ St AIMS
avenue, The Bronx, blown down. taking
with It the walls of a kitchen on til. top floor
and breaking in the roof. The top floor was
occupied by Edward Brech and his family
When the roof fell in. Brech's son. John. was
struck by falling brick and was sent to the
Lebanon Hospital with fractured skull. Sev-
eiaI other members of the family We're more or
less painfully injured over in Jersey City the
roof Of a laundry at jefferson and Oakland ave-
nues lifted completely off the two story
frame building and carried over several houses
before it lodged the roofs of Nos G3 and 65
Jefferson avenue
OF the two men reported dead as a result of
the wind and cold. one. Henry J. Casey twenty
years old. of No. 522 West 153d street stag
gered into drug store at Lenox avenue and
125th street and died before a doctor could be
summoned. When DR.. Moeckle of the Harlem
Hospital. arrived he said the high wind ha6
stopped Casey's breath, causing a hemOrrhage
which resulted in his death 1t was said bv
friend that he had been suffering from tuber-
culosis for time. The other victim was an
unidentified man about thirty years old. whose
body found at the East Newark end of the
Clay street bridge the Passac River
William Walsh of No. 64 West I0sth street
while passing No. 20 West l0sth street yester-
day afternoon. struck in the back by piece
Of cornice blown from the roof The cornice
weighed several pounds and knocked him down.
His back injured and he also suffered from
cut the right hand. Walsh was assisted
10 his home, where Dr. Weingarten. who had
been summoned from the Harlem Hospital.
treated him.
AT an early hour last night several hundred
men and twenty-four women with seven babies,