The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-02-23
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at 3:55 o'clock yesterday afternoon. was
bulletined last night as expected at TN
o'clock this morning. This train was
Of Wednesday night. 1t has Pullmans
and a dining car. ."
The Erie suspended freight traffic west
OF Meadville. Pa. yesterday. got out all
its rotary snow ploughs. supplied each
passenger train with three locomotives
and smashed away at the drifted snow
that had plugged every cut from Chicago
into Ohio. II was said at the Erie offices
last night that it was the most trouble
some storm since 1888
All trains from Chicago were more than
three hours late. Trains from Cleveland
and Buffalo were coming through fairly
well but were fighting snow in the southern
tier of New York State. Wire troubles
bothered the despa' 'chers.
The Pennsylvania limited due at $50
O'Clock last night arrived at $40. All
Pennsylvania trains from the West were
delayed
Eight persons are known to have been
hurt in the gale that blew here. Two OF
them. women. had legs broken In the
afternoon Helen Finley. a seamst ress Of
Q Rivington street. was blown against a
railing at 81 Prince street and had q leg
broken. About the same time Mary
Canary of SO Grand street was blown
over by the wind on Greenwich street
near Houston. She had a leg broken too.
Both OF these women were taken to Belle
vue Hospital.
John Fitzpatrick of 22i West Fourth
street was struck by falling sign in front
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and had his head cut slightly. He went
home after his head had been fixed up by
an ambulance surgeon. Joseph Jocks,
a messenger Of 1877 West Siytieth street,
was walking in front of the Circle Theatre
at Columbus Circle when sign blew down
from the roof and landed on his head He
was badly cut and went to the Flower
Hospital.
The window of store which takes up
one corner OF the Buclrin CHAM Hotel on
Fifth avenue was broken by the wind
and Albert Coleman, who was waiting
for his wife to come out Of st. Patrick's
Cathedral. was struck by the glass. His
neck was cut. but his wife came out of
church before the ambulance got around
and took him home. He lives at SIS
Manhattan avenue.
In Pelham Bay Park thirty trees were
blown down.
The gale caused much damage in Brook
lyn. The large metal and glass skylight
on the roof OF the Borough Hall WAS
blown into the street. In the Erie and
Atlantic basins barges and scows which
had broken loose from their moorings
were drifting about helpless and un-
manned and two Of them were seen bot
tom up between Governors Island and
the Brooklyn shore.
Prisoners in the Queens county Jail
came near getting look at the sky when
q big section Of the roof Of that institu-
tion was lifted from its fastenings and car
ried OF by the gale. The section of roof
which connects the court house with the
jail. Late in the afternoon the south side
OF the roof was torn OF too.
Sergt. Bernard O'Keefe. Seventy sixth
Company. Coast Artillery Corps, on a
Government train. while passing from one
near Highland Beach yesterday after
noon. The train was on a trestle at the
time and he landed on q cake Of ice. His
ankle was broken and he was hurt in
ternally.
The wind across Jamaica Bay blew
down four houses in the Rockaways,
slammed q big oyster slooD across The
tres,les Of the Long Island Railroad over
the bay and blew so much sand on the
tracks that the railroad had to send men
out to shovel it Of before the trains could
make headway.
In Newark the roof OF the southern wing
Of the almshouse in which most Of the
city's wards sleep was blown to the
ground, to the terror OF the inmates.
Forty-fve men and fifteen women were
sleeping in the dornoitories in this part
of the building.
After uproofing the wing the wind blew
down several yards OF brick on the wooden
ceiling OF X ward whe re twenty two
men were sleeping. The weight OF the
brick carried the ceiling down with it,
but not until the occupants had left the
room.
MINEoLA. l.. J.. Feb. 2?.-The wind at
IL O'Clock TINS morning completely
wrecked the three story hangar of Babbitt
4. Hyde and injured his mechanician,
Walter Stagg, interna lily. besides breaking
his arm. An assistant. George Russo,
was cut about the head and badly bruised
on the body. Robert j. Allen was badly
cut about the head and face.
The wind broke the stays which hold
the building and caused Il to collapse,
heavy timbers falling on the three men
before they could escape. new style
aeroplane which the men were building
for Mr. Hyde and which had cost to da te
more than so 1000 was wholly wrecked.
The portable hangar of Sidney J. Beck |
with was blown down and two biplanes
A number OF farm buildings
were blown down cast of hera