New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-04-08
BIG WIND PLAYS HAVOC
BLOUS BUILDINGS DOU N
INJURIES SHIPPING.
Many Hurt by Glass, Bricks and
Signs Stre1cn 4bout by Gusts
Steeple TOtters.

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The most disagreeabe wind of the year came
out of the west yesterday and blew everything
light and movable into the east. There were
moments when the gusts attained to speed of
sixty-four and sixty-fve miles hour. The
longest period of high velocity was recorded be
tween 9:15 and 800 p. m. when the gale blew
at the rate of seventy-two miles.
The entire bay was like a boiling caldron'
and the spfndrift made the ferryboats. cutters
and tugs look as if they had encountered rain
storm Passengers on the incoming liners were
entertained Yesterday as they came up from
Quarantine by unusual spectacle. sand on
the new parade ground on Governors Island.
dumped by the War Department at great eN-
pense. WAS hurled by the gale against the new
buildings and officers quarters on the south side
of the island.
The absence of rain gave the wind plenty OF
dust to blow in the faces Of passersby, and
throughout the day many persons were forced
TO turn abruptly into doorways to remove the
notes from their eyes. Signs, plate glass WIN
dows and fences wrecked by the blasts and sew
eral accidents to persons knocked down by the
wind were reported. The gale hit the brick
walls of four story building in course of con-
struction at 18th street and Twelfth avenue. IN
Brooklyn at 7:3O p. m, and sent them a crumb-
Mrs. Elizabeth Grady, forty-six years old, OF
No. % East f25th street while trying to make
her way west along 14Sth street, near Broadway,
was carried east and hurled against a tree near
the curb. She fell at the base of the tree and
was unable to rise. When taken later to the J.
Hood Wright Hospital it found that her
right leg was broken above the knee.
CHILD BLOWN AGAINST sTREETCAR-
At 175th street and Amsterdam a gust
caught Robert Wagner. six years old of No. 526
West 174th street. he running south in
the middle of the avenue and forced him against
a northbound car. The child's mother. who saw
the accident. carried her home, where he
was treated later for a bruised face and head
and injured knee.
Harry Shaw, twenty-six years old Of Hart
ford. Conn. was struck by a sign blown from
the second floor of a building at 126th street and
Lexington avenue. and removed 70 the Har-
lem Hospital suffering from bruised shoulders
A portion OF the steeple OF the Pilgrim Con-
gregational Church, at Madison avenue and
12lst street. came rattling to the sidewalk with
a resounding crash shortly before 10 o'clock.
narrowly missing several pedestrians. Both
Madison avenue and 121st street were strewn
with large fragments of brick tin roofing and
timbers and the traffic the Madison avenue
line was delayed for fifteen minutes while the
debris was removed The tower OF the church
was regarded as 80 unsafe BY the police that
Captain Wash. os the East 126th street station.
ordered the corner roped of. and stationed two
patrolmen there for the rest of the night
SCHOONER BLOWN OK ROCKS.
In the open stretch Of water on Long Island
Sound near Casino Beach the gale gave full
vent to its force and it was here. while coming
down the Sound without cargo, that lOO-ton
in f,F
three. was driven on the rocks Casino
Beach about a mile and a half north OF Hell
Gate. While the waves dashed over her bow
the captain and his men managed 10 sling a
line to the shore. which prevented her drifting
further In the event Of the tide rising during
the night If the storm continues it is feared
the schooner will be completely broken up
The wind blew down three-story frame
house in course OF construction at Woodside
and Lenox avenues, Winfield. Queens. The hous"
had been completed as far the woodwork and
roof were concerned, while the brick construc-
ton had beer built as far the first floor.
When the wind struck the house in full force
the complete structure collapsed and sections of
il were carried as far a hundred feet At
one point. more than a hundred feet from the
wrecked building. windows in Public School l..
at Woodside avenue. were broken by pieces OF
fyine, timbers carried hy the wind. The yards
of the Long Island Railroad. near the school.
were also Uttered with wreckage from the same
building.
Another three-stOry frame house being built
at Cypress avenue and Goth street Flushing,
collapsed when the wind struck II.
The Cunard liner Caronia, from Liverpool
which left Quarantine at 6: 80 T. m, started for
her pier with a passenger complement of more
than one thousand persons She had proceeded
only half a mile when Captain Dow decided to
anchor again Word was received at the Cunard
Line pier that the captain would not take
chance of docking the big liner in the wind. and
q large crowd Of friends Of returning travellers
went home
Captain FfadGock OF the White Star liner
Oceanic brought up his vessel and despite the
wind and the tide put her safely into her dock
at p
heavy door in the fence that surrounds
lot used for storing wagons at No. "A Clarke
street injured two within five minutes
both of whom were taken to st. Ninceuts Hos
pitaI by DR.. Hartigan. OF them in serious
condition Miss Millie Jotkinsky, of No 10
Thompson street. had her skull fractured and
Mrs Amelia Arata. of No. 204 Spring street
suffered a scalp wound and contusions. They
were taken away in the same ambulance
EXPECTS MONEY TO-DAY.