Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-22
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house at SO Norwood avenue, " doors
away, was nearly flung from her bed.
1T seemed as If the house rocked
from side to side" she said today. "Foi
a moment l thought it was going to &c
right over. The crash outside was
something terrible. ] didn't know what
had happened"
The house is a total wreck. 1t had
been completed as far as the lathing'
The damage was about $4,000.
A two.story house in the SAINT neigh
borhood, 50 Mead street, was lifted
from it's foundation and blown to one
side. 1t settled down with a crash and
remained upright. one side grotesque-
iy projecting over the foundation. IL
was a two-story frame bungalow, COM
pleted but vacant.
Signs went down all over Newark
and the suburbs. The glass electric
sign of II. Britzmacher, IS Market
street, was blown against the building
and shattered. Another, at the Chinese
American restaurant. 120 Market street.
was twisted out of shape. At 3sS South
Orange avenue a sign was blown down.
windo. Pnnes Shattered.
Plate glass windows in stores were
smashed at the caprice of the tre-
mendous gale. Even window panes IN
private houses gave way beneath the
pressure. Double plate glass windows
in the dry goods store of Louis Re
bach, 1872 Ferry street, were broken by
the wind and dresses and window
decorations tossed about. The damage
was $275. Two police call circuits In
the Third precinct were put out OF
service. Electric poles on st. Francis
street are down.
The bay window of a dwelling at
summit and New streets was blown
in, and two plate glass windows in the
iewelry store at Market and Plane
streets shattered.
Chimneys Go Over In storm.
4 chimney at 60 Norwood avenue
Nailsburg, was blown into the yard.
All realty signs on Norwood and South
Orange avenues were thrown down n
a chimney at what is known as the
Crawford Villa was hurled to the
ground by the gale. The flagpole on
the grounds of the old asylum in South
Orange avenue was blown down.
Awnings were torn to shreds by the
wind In many places. Stores in the
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surrounding towns. suffered.
Horse Killed In Storm.
Trees were blown down in every Sec
ton of East Orange by the storm. A
horse owned by Mrs. Owens. 91s Grove
north, was killed by a live troll
ley wire at Main and Steuben streets.
In the new High School four win
and their frames We're blown out.
A roof was taken off one house, also.
Failing trees caused breaks in the
alarm system all over the town,
and today the engineers had a busy
time Strengthening u the tangle. a
window was blown in at
Main and Fifteenth streets, and a bill
at Central avenue and Seven
Ieenth street was blown across the
Signs and tops of hag-poles
we're carried for blocks by the wind.
Bloomfield swept by Gale.
THE high wind did considerable dam
ase In Bloomfgeld. A part Of the CHM
ney on Fairview School was demol-
and slate was torn from the root.
feet of the big smokestack on
the Diamond Paper Mills, in Plane
street, was blown down. Limbs were
ripped from trees, and traffic was I'M
peded.
Window panes were shattered and
signs torn from their fastenings. Many
pedestrians had narrow escapes.
Superintendent of Public Works Fred
E. Stimis and his men were kept
busy clearing the streets of debris.
wind played havoc with the fire
alarm wires. They became crossed
with IN electric light wire, causing
the fire bell and whistle to sound 50.
BeIIeviIIc school Damaged.
The storm did considerable damage
in Belleville. A chimney on the roof
of the home of Arthur Emerson, 1877
street, was blown down. Several
minutes before two Belleville patrol
men, George Wirtz and William Swim,
had walked through an alley where
the bricks had fallen.
Parts of the roof of Public School
No. 1. in Academy street, and at the
home of John Slater. in Rutgers street,
were torn off by the gale. School No.
l has been condemned by County Su-
of Schools Albert B. Mere
dith as unsafe.
In the Silver Lake section of the
a tree at Franklin and Belmont
avenues was blown down and was the
cause of blocking traffic for several