New-York tribune., 1910-06-20
STORMS FATALITIES
MOUNT TO SEVENTEEN
Woman Hit by Broken Pole in
Circus Tent During Gale
Dies from Injury.
THREE DROWN YESTERDAY
Terrific Gale Followed or Sun
day by Hottest Weather of
Year-Thermometer
Touches 81.


violent New York has known in years
showed that the total number of deaths
caused by the cyclone had risen te
seventeen. or three more than we're re.
ported yesterday.
1t is believed that several more per
sons, in addition to those of whom q
record has been obtained, either were
drowned or carried out to sea in the
gale. Many small boats have beer
found all along the beach front, from
| Sea Gate to the Rockaways. either to-
tally wrecked or so badly damaged that
they must have been abandoned by their
occupants before they we're cast up on
the beach.
Brilliant weather yesterday succeeded
the violent atmospheric disturbance that
was responsible for so much damags
both to life and property on Saturday
Indeed. the temperature, climbing ur
to 81 degrees, the highest yet of the year
made the day even more remarkable af-
ter the storm.
Three Drownines Yesterday.
Many people thus were tempted to GO
in bathing at the ocean resorts and In
the rivers, and, as a result. the water
claimed three victims.
One of these deaths occurred in West
Orange, one at Coney Island and a third
at Clinton street, Brooklyn. Many res
cues from drowning were reported from
all over the city and suburbs, and the
lifesavers had a hard time at the opening
of the summer bathing season.
One of the victims of the storm, who
was reported badly injured when a
pole at the circus, at Manhattan Field,
fractured her skull died yesterday in the
j. Hood Wright Hospital. where she was
removed Immediately after the accident.
Her name was Mrs. Florence Pratt, of
No. S24 st. Nicholas avenue and she was
at the circus with her husband when she
met with the accident.
Fatal Fishing Trip.
Tt was learned last night that another
man was drowned in Jamaica Bay in
Saturdays storm. The man, whose body
has not yet been recovered, was James
II. Barber, an insurance broker. head of
the James w. Barber Insurance Com
pany. of No. 1 Liberty street, Manhat-
tan Mr.. Barber lived in summer cot
tage at No. 1881 East 18th street, Flat
bush, with his mother.
On Saturday afternoon Barber, with
Warren Conk, of No. 693 Franklin ave-
nue., Brooklyn; George Seidel, of No. Isl
West 101st street, Manhattan; John
Of
lyn, and Morgan T. Brewster, a negro
chauffeur in the employ of Barber, set
out from Sheepshead Bay for a fishing
excursion. AS they were about to start
they met Lewis Tangruza, of No. III
Wallabout street. Brooklyn, who Joined
the party.
The five men sailed in the direction
of Rockaway Point, and when they had
reached point midway between Bar
ren Island and Rockaway Point they
dropped their anchor. 1t was a little
after , o'clock, according to Tangruza,
when they noticed the approach of the
storm. The surface of the water took
on yelloWish tinge and was frequently
rippled by little white capped waves
At the same time they noticed that dense
clouds were rolling in from the ocean,
obscuring the sun and throwing every
thing into almost total darkness.
The five men Immediately started in
to pull up their anchor hoping to be
able to run before the gale. Even as
they tugged on the anchor rope with all
their strength the gale struck them
The bay was whipped into furious
sea in minute, and the boat was in
imminent danger of being swamped. The
anchor was finally pulled in, and all lay
fiat on the deck, with one man holding
the tiller and trying to guide the frail
craft through the binding rain to a
point of safety.
The waves continually leaped over the
boat, and suddenly she gave a great
lurch downward in the trough of the sea
and then turned completely over. Every
man on board was thrown into the wa
ter. but Brewster the negro chauffeur,
managed to tWine his legs about the
mast and then grabbed Ryan and Sci
del. preventing them from being swept
away by the rollers. Barber and Tan
gruza were swept clear of the boat, and
the latter managed to grasp a life pre-
server which fioated on the water and
thus saved himself from drowning.
Barber, who was wearing a heavy oil
skin suit. was practically helpless and
was carried away He cried for help.
and Brewster yelled to him to hold out
until he could reach his side. Barber.
however, never had a chance handi-
capped as he was, and disappeared be-
meath the surface.
Tangruza was rescued by John Morri-
son, of Rockaway Point. after he had
drifted off Point Breeze. Ryan. Seidel |
and Brewster still clung to the mast of |
the capsized boat. and were finally res |
cued by the Volunteer Life Saving Corps |
On Plum Island All the men were ex-
1austed by their experience and were |
taken to st. Joseph's Hospital, in Far
browns in the Bay.
In direct contrast to the storm of Sat- |
lrday. when the temperature fell 20 de- |
gress within as many minutes, yes
erday was sweltering day, the dense
and high temperature causing |
much misery and suffering.
Starting in soon after midnight. when
he thermometer registered 80 degrees.
he mercury soon reached 70 degrees. at
o'clock. From then on the heat and