The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-11
100000 DAMAGE
IN PATH OF GALE
THAT HIT NEWARK
Continued from First PaEe.)

Orange streets. roof ripped off n
building weakened.
The occupants at 124 Frelinghuysen
avenue were injured by a falling roof.
Three buildings at III. 173 ana III
Hillside avenue were badly damaged.
the roof being blown off 173.
A building in South street belonging
to Emil Snyder was rocked to its foun-
dations and every window smashed and
the chimneys RACED.
Three buildings at 70 to n Delaney
street, chimneys blown off and build.
ings damaged.
Free Public Library, skylight smashed
n raised three feet from its original
position.
At 70 Plane street, roof blown off.
Harrison Town Hall, chimney blown
down and roof damaged.
A score of buildings in Harrison and
Kearny had their chimneys blown off.
while "a more had their windows
smashed. From all over Newark dog
ems of reports were made of windows
being smashed and chimneys carried
into the streets.
The injured persons are all reported
to be on the road to recovery, with tn,
exception of Mrs. Watson, whose in
juries are serious.
The storm blew into Newark appar
emily from nowhere. Here is the ac-
count given by Professor William VIE
ner, at the weather bureau in the High
School:
Between noon n 2 o'clock the bar
ometer fell rapidly and we were on the
alert for an approaching storm. Shortly
before 2 o'clock W. saw it coming in
the form of an inky black cloud from
the southeast. which veeredeRround to
the northeast omniously. The first
blasts of the gale struck Newark about
2:15 o'clock after the manner of a
Western cyclone. / would call the
storm a northeaster.
1T was fashioned after the manner
of a cyclone, and cut through the hear
of the city. 1t was not more than q
mile wide in its ~path-that is, the heart
of the storm which did the damage
and lasted but twenty minutes, wher
the wind lessened and rain fell more
evenly.
There was remarkably little precip-
itation for so violent a storm, but
four-tenths of an inch falling. The
vim caught up the rain, whirled ii
about in great sheets, n thus made
1t appear as a heavy-rainfall. The wind
pressure vas terrific, the gale blowing
forty-five miles an hour at its maxi
mum speed, and giving a varying pres
sure of from four to eight pounds per
square foot Of surface.
Had the wind come from one d.
rection it would not have been so bad.
as the buildings would have been
braced against it, but the wind blew
from all directions almost simultane-
ously, and this was accountable for the
damage.
THE unusually high temperature
forecasted the storm. The thermometer
rose from rs degrees at midnight to IS
degrees at 2 o'clock, making it a record
day for high temperature since 1898.
1.-THE indications are that the weather
will be fair today and tomorrow. 1 do
not hin there will be a second vista
tion."
Came from Northeast.
The storm area did not extend to the
Roseville or Down Neck sections of
the city. The embryonic cyclone struck
Newark from the northeast. made its
way down Broad street and left by
way of Clinton avenue. 1t reached As
bury Park shortly afterwards, and did
considerable damage there, touching the
Battery in New York with diminished
force.
Many minor accidents were caused by
the gale. A dozen or more wagons
were blown over, newsstands were
rifled by the wind, pedestrians were
blown off their feet and the limbs OF
many trees were broken off. Numerous
narrow escapes were reported.
At 70 Plane street the kitchen and
bedroom in the home of Louis Froeh-
Itch on the second floor were damage
when the beams, plaster n lathing
fell as a nine-foot chimney crashed In
Mrs. Froehlich, together with her
children, aged 3 and 4 years, and
her father-in-law, Meyer Froehlich,