The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-02-25


made a hole big enough for boy to
crawl through and the hands stopped
Fortunately the broken material fell to
an adjoining roof and no one was In
jured.
AT Times Square the Wild seemed to
be al It's height. Three wagons were
overturned aud the drivers were injured.
The cover OF one OF these wagons was
blown off and after being hurtled up
Broadway for block. 1t struck and
bowled UYer o man. who was sent to
Roosevelt Hospital suffering from In.
terna injuries.
Women Blown AeroSo Broadway.
Several women and a few men were
knocked down by the wind IN the vicin-
ty OF Times Square, and the policemen
there on duty had their hands full in
kceping traffic open. In some Instances
women were blown clear across Broad
way, and not few OF these were pain
fully hurt by the buffeting Of the wind,
Women shoppers in West One Hun
dred and Twenty-iifth street were cut
by fragments when the plate-glass front
OF a store was blown out.
There were many narrow escapes
from death when the flagpole which
lowered over the Union Dime Savings
Pank came crashing down into Broad
way. Two street cars had just passed,
while several teams and automobiles
bap q 4 !,
the heavy timber.
The wind loosened the immense pole
from It's fastenings and as 1t fell 1t
struck the roof Of the bank and was
split in twain. One half Of the pole
crashed down into Broadway while the
other tumbled into Twenty-second
street.
The piece that toppled into Broadway
first struck the sidewalk at the south
west corner OF Broadway and Thirty
second street and then bounded directly
across Broadway and was splintered
into q hundred pieces as It banged into
the front wall of the Imperial Hotel.
Injured by Poles Fragments.
There is no more crowded section Of
Broadway than this immediate vicinity,
and hundreds OF persons We're passing
up and down the street. Policeman
Baer. Of the Traffic Squad. was struck
by one Of the splntered sections OF the
pole, but escaped serious injury
Walter Schroeder. twenty-five years
old, Of No. N7 West Thirty-eighth street
WAS struck a glancing blow on the
shoulder by the pole and knocked to the
sidewalk. A splinter Of the pole struck
him in the eye. He was taken to shop
where his injuries were dressed by Dr.
Mcclure, OF the New York Hospital
after which he went home.
AS one OF Ludwig Bauman & Co.'S Dig
trucks, drawn by two horses, turned
into Broadway from IVES: Foltyihtrd
street, the wind lifted tho cover from
the truck and swept it along to Forty
second street, where It struck George
Brown, thirty-one years old, of No. 80
West Thirty-fourth street. Brown re-
celved internal injuries and badly lac.
Grated scalp. He was taken by DR..
Worthngton to Roosevelt Hospital
The driver of the truck, Herman
Schmid,ke, Of No. 3252 Third avenue,
wes blown from his seat and he, too,
was hurt, but not seriously, The wagon
was overturned and traffic was tied up
until the horses could be untangled
from the wreckage.
a wagon laden with big hat boxes
was caught by the gale, and horse.
wagon and driver went down In heap.
Hat boxes, which were stuffed with
huge sheets of tissue paper, were strewn
all over Broadway, and for awhile the
street resembled Broadway on a New
Years Eve. Again traffic was tied up
until the horse, wagon and driver could
be untangled and the scattered boxes
recovered.
A wagon which was equipped with
signs by an advertising concern was
blown over in Times Square, but a
crowd came to the rescue and the team
was righted and sent on its way with
out causing any interruption to traffic.
Fragments Of Glass Cut Women.
Shopkeepers along West One Hun
dred and Twenty fifth street suffered
greatly from the storm. The big plate
glass window in the front OF the High
Grade Wine Company's store, at No.
"a West One Hundred and Twenty-ffth
street. was blown out and crashed TO the
sidewalk, which was crowded with
women shoppers. \ number OF these
sustained slight injuries from flying
glass, but none was seriously hurt.
So violent did the wind become a!
the day wore on that shopkeepers tool
the precaution TO bring their porta5I,
showcases In from the street. ant
many deemed It advisable to stretcl
canvas awnings or screens across thei
windows.
The police in One Hundred and TWEEN
ty-fifth street had their hands full
plotting women and children over tn
street crossings. as the wind was s.
strong that they were unable to breas
{, and make their way unassIsted
Along the water front the wind swep
at furious rate and the captains o
smaller craft put into port early In tn
day and could not be tempted out again
The towing and l!ghterage industrie
suffered materially, and work OF thi
character was a, a standstl!l PRACTICAL.
all day,
or Sandy Hook a ffty-mlle gale wa
blowing. and those vessels which cam
UP the bay carly in the morning wer
the only ones TO venture from thei
anchorage there.
Wagon Twice Upset.