Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-01-04
Man Blown from I rain
Into Newark
Bay.
WOMAN, BUFFETED AND
FRIGHTENED BY WIND, DIES
Many Are Injured and consid-
cradle Damage Is Done
by Gale.

accidents and thousands of dollars
damage to property followed in the
wake of the gale that was still
sweeping New Jersey at thirty miles
an hour early today.
Signs were hurled in crumpled
wreckage about the streets. trees
were uprooted, poles snapped short
fences demolished and plate glass
windows smashed. Telephone, tele-
graph, trolley and electric light serv-
ice were hampered by the hurricane
velocity of the storm.
A three masted schooner. flying
signals of distress and sinking, was
sighted near Egg Harbor last night
Drifting in the teeth of the gale, the
ship fell off shore near Beach Haven
not far from Atlantic City, today
and life-savers lost sight of her. II
is feared that she will founder. M
small boats could live in the heavy
sea. The revenue cutter Seneca has
gone in search of the schooner.
The list of dead and injured in New
Jersey is as follows;
DEAD.
MRS. BERTHA H. WILSON,
S56 South Eighteenth street, New
ark; buffeted by storm while re-
turning home alone from a NOV
ing picture show; died of heart
failure, brought on by her exer-
tions and fright.
NIDEN T IFIED MAN, be-
lieved to be. Henry S. Gerdes, of
1,.fk -.
Roselle; blown from train on New
Jersey Central bridge over New
ark bay; drowned.
INJURED.
JOHN MURRAY, 9S Halsey
street, Newark, caught in wreck
age Of Public Service wire re-
pair wagon blown over at Main
street and Cleveland avenue, Or
ange; treated at Orange Memorial
| Hospital.
MRS. JOHN T. BECKWITH,
Atlantic City, thrown from her
rolling chair by sixty-mile gust;
seriously injured.
GEORGE E. SAVAGE, an archi-
tect, of Philadelphia, caught in
collapse of the Salem Methodist
Episcopal Church, Pleasantville;
taken to a hospital in Atlantic
City.
LOUIS HARPER, a carpenter,
injured in collapse of the Salem
Methodist Episcopal Church,
Pleasantville: in hospital.
DAVID FIRTH, of Phillipsburg,
caught in wreckage of a four
story brick building of Frank Del
azzo; in Easton Hospital with
fractured ribs, broken shoulder
blade and probable internal in
juries.
Lowest Barometer Since 1892.
Clear and much colder weather wa
promised today by Professor William
Wiener, principal of the Central Higl
School. and city meteorologist.
"The highest velocity registered OIL
our instruments" he said. was thirt,
our Instruments he said, IVA
thirty-five miles an hour The pre-
cipitation of snow, sleet and hail wal
insignificant and ceased entirely a
$3.50 a. m. The wind continued, how
ever although the velocity finall,
dropped to fifteen miles.
THE barometer dropped to 1896 yes
terday afternoon, and that is phenom
inally low. 1t was the lowest sine.
1892. and predicted a cyclone or al
earthquake.
1.-The wind was blowing southeas
yesterday morning. 1t shifted to tn,
northeast and now it is blowing north.
west
The last big wind storm WAS thai
of February 23. last year, when four.
teen houses were blown down IN New
ark and vicinity, and many Others TN.
rooted. Then the velocity reached
sixty. and in New York, ninety miles
an hour.
PatroIman's Wife a Victim.
Although many had narrow escapes
on the streets of Newark last NIGH
the storm proved fatal only TO Mrs
Bertha Wilson, wife of Patrolmar
Robert j. Wilson, of the Sixth pre-.
cinet. She was returning from NOV
ing-picture show, where she had
taken her two sons. Fighting the
heavy gale she became exhausted. Shs
sought shelter at the rear door OF
a meat market at Madison avenue
and South sixteenth street.
Before she could turn the knob shs
fell unconscious on the doorstep. Will
lam Aldinger heard her meaning and
went to her assistance, bue she died
before he could summon medical aid
County Physician Mckenzie ex-
amined the body and declared that
the woman had died from heart dis
ease superinduced by overexertion.
Mrs. Wilson was 40 years old and
was thought to be in the best OF
health. She is survived by her hus-
band and seven children.
The funeral services will be held
on Monday from her late home. The
pallbearers will be officers Of the po-
lice department connected with the
sixth precinct station.
Another death caused by the storm
was that of an unknown commuteI
CONTINUED on second PaRe.)