New-York tribune., 1908-08-27
DEATH DRIVING RAIN
4 CHILLING AUGUST DAY.
Damage to Property Considerable
ThrOug ghOut the City.

Several deaths and considerable damage to prop
erty city the direct results OF the cold
rainstorm, driven by bowling northeaster that
began late on Tuesday night. continuing with al
most unabated force for twenty-four hours, making
travelling afoot a misery by the various
face lines in the rush hours both uncomfortable
and dangerous.
It was not what the weather would call an
equfnoctfa gale for the date of that is fixed Of
September D. but it was. in fact. the first taste OF
autumn, and the almost unprecedented drop In the
temperature-eght degrees in seven hours and sew
enteen degrees in ten hours-made New Workers
sit up and take notice The maximum temperature
was Co and the minimum Sc degrees The sensible
got out their OvercOats after breakfast and
them downtown to business
The weather sharps say it the coldest August
26 in many years According to the figures of the
who keep the records 1t 1910 degrees
colder than the corresponding day in 1876 ard
14.Oo degrees colder than the same day In 1851
This may be regarded as remarkable from the fact
that the day in thirty-eght years was on
September T. 1881 when the thermometer registered
10l in the shade in this city
AS compared with that of May and of this
year. when the figures show rainfall of All inches.
yesterdays fall of 268 is far from a record but the
coldness of 1t when driven in ones face by the
gale. which reached maximum velocity OF TWEEN
tysx miles hour. made It particularly disagree
able well dangerous. The danger OF II is
shown the case of little Warren of No 32s
East stth street, who. while struggling with an
umbrella in both hands and a loaf of bread in her
arms, was over and killed by trolley car
Third avenue and 9Sth street. Her mother had
sent her to get the bread at a nearby grocery
There were many accidents as a direct result OF
the storm, the most pathetic Of which perhaps was
the death by drowning in trunk sewer at East
S1st street of John Lynch of No 2162 Eighth ave
while he and two companions were attempting
free the cellars In that neighborhood OF water
Lynch was drowned before their eyes, in spite OF
their united efforts to him.
Thousands of homeless and women were
driven from benches in the parks. to the nuni-
cipal and other lodging houses, crowding them 10
their capacity and still leaving many unfortunates
or the streets An unidentified cripple was found
dead in the hallway of No. IS Henry street. Where
he had crept to escape the storm He had covered
himself with newspapers. but they had not peeH
sufficient TO keep him warm. There was no money
in his pockets. Mrs May Giligan. wife OF coal
HEAVIER after wandering around all night IN tne
rain drfted into the East 126h street station ana
implored Lieutenant Loonan TO give her some iooa
and warm drink She said she vas homeless ana
that her husband had deserted her while she was
In a hospital recently.
Many of the sewers were small to carry on
the deluge OF water poured into them from tie
s,raets one. at 49th street and Sixth avenue
r2rooI,r,,p hurst making a sort OF canal or fS'h
s+-sat 4 saloonkeeper awoke yesterday morning
IN find a geyser in front OF his door spoI'iie
ten feet high. Another sewer pipe sasBeu a. "
street between Second and Third avenues bion
T,-D and q
for a space of fifty feet. and there was oahseF O'
the undermining OF houses and the elevated raii-
r,ad foundations until the water was shut on
A. 1nrb street and Riverside Drive the street
oo-sd in because of a bursted water MAN, anu '
-. at containing two passengers sank four
feet into the hole ).
part Of the Surf Hotel at Fire Island coAapseu
during the Storm and Miss Claire Oakley aaush'er
Of the proprietor who was in room, on ~.
,ba dining room. was taken unconscious from the
wreckage.
An old tree blown down by the storm at LIE
avcn,,a and fIewes street. Williamsburg. feiI across
the trolley wires of the Nostrand avenue hie'
,,s,,, loud explosions and alarming the passen-
gers and residents. The charged wires STUCK
coach that was passing. The drivers rubber coat
saved his life when wire struck him on the
shoulder The police reserves had 60 be summoned
=. i,,s, tho throngs back from the danger
Yachts and other craft were driven ashore by
Tho gale at some points in Long Island Sound and
in the Lower Pay. but serious accidents on the