Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-24
son and East Newark. North Airing
ton escaped any damage.
sturdy Elms Damaged.

sturdy Elms Damaged.
Irreparable damage was done in
Bloomfield when several sturdy elm
trees that one would think would
withstand any force of wind were
broken off or torn up. The trees for
more than a hundred years had been
spared by the "Woodman" and were
considered almost as sacred land
marks. They stood on 1.-The Green.'
Stopping up of catch basins in
Washington street between Thomas
and Clinton streets caused numerous
cellars to be flooded, and Bloomfield
Centre was practically impossible
without gesting wet to the knees.
| AS in all of the other districts af-
fected by the storm the trees We're
stripped of their branches and many
of them uprooted entirely,
! A barn In back of New street,
i Irvington. was damaged by half Of
a splitting willow tree crashing
through the roof. At Springfield and
washington avenues an electric light
pole caught fire and the department
had to be called. In front of rs Union
avenue a tree was blown down.
/ Crossing wires having. become slack
4 caused excitement In Two Instances,
at Clinton and Ellis avenues and in
front of 81 Linden avenue.
Every time they crossed each other
flames would shoot in all directions,
and the fire department was notified,
as it seemed that nearby trees might
{ catch fire. ~
i Trees were uprooted, limbs of trees
were torn down. taking with them In
their course telephone and electric
light wires when the fury of the. storm
hit Belleville. No one was hurt, how
ever, and the lightning caused no
fires. The torrent of rain that poured
down, however. washed out the ex-
4 cavauon ready to receive the new
{, sewer along Washington avenue.
Snatching up a tree on North Full
lerton avenue Montclair, the wind
hurled it at a passing delivery wagon,
and smashed the dear of the vehicle,
land the driver only escaped by jump
i ing from the seat to the road and was
/ almost boWled over by the force OF
the gale. Luckily the weight of the
tree was SO great that when the horse
attempted to run 1t was unable to
make any progress. The wagon is the
4 property of M. e. e w. e. Flint, of
! Orange road. Montclair.
i Harrison avenue and Orange road
to the West Orange line was strewn
/ with broken limbs of trees. and in
/ Depot Park, which is small TRAN
/ gular space opposite the Lackawanna
Railroad, the young trees were COM
pletely denuded of branches. a
Glen Ridge avenue and Bay street
had good sized currents rushing
through them as the torrents of rain
fell, and more than one remarked
/ that the street for once bore ont its
name.
The Oranges. got off comparatively
easy during the storm, most of the
damage being done to trees, which
In some cases were entirely uprooted,
while in others limbs were broken off
by the gale,
Trolley service on Main street, Or
ange, was tied up for about twenty
minutes on account of the breaking
of feed wire. At Hillside avenue
and Scotland road. and on Bradford
street a tree was uprooted.
In West Orange traffic to Montclair
over Franklin avenue was blocked for
a time because a big tree was thrown
right across the road near William
street, In Dodd street, East Orange,
and Grove and William streets three
trees were blown down. Lights were
out In a number of business places
for a short time. The street lighting
was also affected in the Oranges
South Orange, as well as Maple
wood, escaped almost without any
damage. In the latter place one tree
was uprooted.
I Except for few trees blown down
in Essex Fells, Caldwell and Livings-
ton, the western Essex towns suffered
but little damage. fsts4asf