The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-02-10
Miniature Tornado Hits Heart
of Jersey City and Comes
on to New York.
QUICK CHANGE OF WIND
Wagon Overturned in State
Street and a Tree Blown
Down in Tenderloin.

The miniature tornado that swept over
New York this afternoo came by way
Of Newark, where great damage was
done. One man was Killed in the heart
OF that city, two boys were blown from
their feet. slammed against buildings
and had their legs broken; many wagons
were overturned In Broad and Market
streets; fifty houses were unroofed, and
In Harrison. Just across the Passaic
River from Newark, some buildings are
said to have been destroyed by the
wind.
The storm blew up from the south
west and practically without warning
AZ 1t struck Newark and swept out on
the meadows It seemed to gain In force.
David H. Bowdltch, driver, was
caught under his wagon ms II was blown
over in Broad street and killed.
Auditorium Unroofed.
The roof OF the new Auditorium In
Orange street, Newark, a big building,
waslifted off and blown nifty feet, 1t
struck the front OF three other buildings
!, and demolished them,
Reports coming in late this afternoon
indicate that the storm came right up
through Delaware and lower Pennsyl-
Sanla and New Jersey. 1t struck New
York after day OF mixed weather
ranging from pouring raInstorm to
bright sunshine.
The most freakish weather incident OF
the day was a black squall that came
hurtling up the bay little after
o'clock. At that time In lower Manhat-
tan the flags were hanging listlessly to
their masts. Spots of sunshine sifted
through the clouds.
As the squal shot In from the south.
churnng the water of the Bay and
rivers into foam the sunshine was
blotted out and rain drove vertically
through the streets.
What the Wind Did,
IN exposed places and squares pedes-
TRANS were blown from their feet, a
WAGON was overturned at the Battery, n
tree was blown down In the Tenderloin,
flags were stripped from STATS and
awnings from fastenings and hats with
out number were blown from heads,
whirled aloft and dashed down to the
mud and muck OF the streets.
George Foster was driving a covered
ons-horse truck north through State
street when Just In front Of the Cheese
brough Building the sQuall struck him.
Invading the wagon from the rear the
wind transformed 1t momentarily into a
balloon, lifting II up. swinging 1t against
the curb and overturning 1t.
Foster was thrown out and skated
across the sidewalk on his face. The
amazed horse reared up on his hind
legs and fell over backwards across the
wagon. Altogether It was tangle that
required half an hour for its lundoing.
A Tree Blown Down.
A large dead elm tree opposite the
Hotel Nottingham, az No IS East Thir-
tleth street, that has been threatening
TO fall FOR several months. finally
crashed down during the sQuall and, in
its fall, struck horse attached to an
express wagon owned Nelson Broth
ers, OF No. go Third avenue The .
horses back was broken, killing the /
animal.
The fal lof the tree was accompanied .
BY deafening crash that brought big .
crowd from adjacent apartment houses. |
The weight Of the tree made 1t impossl. /
bic to raise 1t from the horse, and 1t lay ,
there for several hours before ten police .
had moved 1t and traffic could be re.
sumed.
According to persons In the nelghbor.
hood, the Park Department has been
petit!oned several times to cut the tree /
down. as II was so old and rotten that
It seemed Impossible 1t could stand. In
Its fail branch Of the tree broke the
windows in a small antique shop oppos.
lite the Nottingham