New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-12


gale Of sixty eight miles an hour, reach-
ing It's maximum five minutes later
Then, between 1920 and 1923 o'clock
il slowed down again to n forty-nine-
mile rate and from 1925 to 1890 O'CLOCK
to thirty-six miles an hour untii
o'clock it lowered between thirty-sN
and twenty miles. afterward diminishihs
gradually. The weather sharps de'
scribed it at its height as whole
gale" since 1t takes a velocity Of ninety
miles an hour to make a hurricane.
The gale did not return with the re-
turn of the storm at 3 o'clock III
the morning. but the nghtnlhs
and the greater deluge Of rain mao"
up for its absence. So far as New YORK
was concerned. it seemed to centre over
Harlem A bolt struck the steeple Oh
the Church of the Pilgrims. at Madison
avenue and 121st street. shattering
number Of windows. but doing no 'otheP
damage Another bolt delicately picked
off the flagpole on Woods BUSINESS
School. at Fifth avenue and 125th street
without marring the building.
Accident Due to Storm.
Arlington n. j., suffered again, vica-
riously this time in the injury to one OF
her citizens, Walter Anderson an cleo
trician who as he scudded south 10
avoid the rain was so blinded by ilash
of lightning that he crashed into lamp
post at Seventh avenue and l43d street
Patroln1an Mcnamara picked him up I'M
conscious. and DR.. Smith. OF Harlem
Hospital, after treating nim for scalp
wound. sent him home.
one man. whose mind may have peeh
wrecked by rhe clash Of cosmlc FORCES
appeared at Sixth avenue and ood street,
clad only in a rubber coat.
where's the rest of your ralment!
Patrolman Mcmahon asked him.
Don. you see it's raining?" demanded
the bather.
At the East 51st street station ne SAID
he was Edward Engelman, of NO. ooo
West 59th street He was sent TO Belle
vue for observation.
The downpour caused a large food IN
Williamsburg The low lying section IN
the neighborhood of Walabout street
and Harrison avenue broke its high
water record with a depth of over four
feet. Hundreds OF persons were unable
to leave their homes. and some who were
sleeping on the ground floor beat hasty
retreat to the upper stories as the man.
hole covers in the street blew up, fol-
lowed by roaring geysers. The police
formed a line around the flooded area
until the C~erworked sewers carried the
water out to sea.
In Bellevlle, ~ J.. lightning struck the
arshp in the Hillside Amusement Park
and mussed up one Of the pavilions. The
total damage done was estimated at
$1,000.
Mar Killed by 5000 Volts.
1t was estimated that 5000 volts Of
electricity passed through the body of
David Clark, who was killed by an cleo
trio wire in Jersey City during the storm.
When the storm reached its climax
George Henry, of No. go Pacific avenue,
Jersey City, a conductor employed by
the Central Railroad Of New Jersey. and
Samuel Post, Of No. 356 Dean street.
Brooklyn, a brakeman on the same road,
were both injured in collision between
a drill engine and a freight car in the
COmmunipaw yards. They were riding
on the front OF the drill engine, which
crashed into an empty freight car blown
sideways across the track. Henrys legs
were cut and Post in addition 10 his arm
being broken, received cuts and bruises
about the chest.
The storm was the indirect cause Of
the imprisonment of Miss Helen Wunsch,
sixteen years old. Of No. 113 South Sth
street. Newark who spent the night IN
the vestibule Of building at Orange and
9TH streets The girl had taken shelter
in the vestbule. where she found man
and boy. Her companions were the
first TO leave the place as the storm sub
sided. and the boy pulled the door shu,
after HIM When Miss Wunsch. a few
minutes later. tried to depart she found
the door locked.
As the building was used as a store and
lodge room she could rouse no one inside
at that time Of the night The streets,
too, were deserted. and she could attract
no attention in that quarter. When an
attendant opened the door in the morn
ing he found her on the verge Of col
IIor roiafiyac had also suffered.