Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-12-27
SUBURBAN TOWNS HIT
HARD BY FREAK STORM
Houses Unroofed and Trees
Blown pown-Several Peo-
pie Have Narrow Escapes.

Eft4l GuDuLUdn tOWl6 HIE
Hudson probably suffered most as 9
result Of the high wind that pre-.
vailed. Several persons had narrow
escapes from injury in the trans
Passaic towns.
Twenty sheets OF tile, each weighing
almost two hundred pounds, were
blown from the roof OF one Of the
new buildings at the plant of the
Crucible Steel Company, Harrison
during the storm early yesterday. III
railing the tile struck a lower roof
and tore large holes in 1t. Edward
Farley, a watchman, hearing the
crash, looked skyward and jumped
Just In time to escape being struck by
one Of the tiles as it shot to the
ground from the second roof. Roof
ems are at work today repairing the
damage.
Several freakish incidents followed
the blowing down of a chimney on
the house at 27 Highland avenue,
Kearny. The bricks struck the side
Of an adjoining house and bounded
through one Of the windows at 27.
They struck stove, turning it COM
pletely around. Hot Goals fell upon a
rug and started a fire. Mrs. Peter
Wallace. who occupies the apartment,
was burned about the hands while
trying to extinguish the flames.
Ephraim Critchley, a neighbor, car
ried the rug to the yard.
A portion of the roof of the home
OF Fred A. Hartley 81 Johnston ave-
nue., Kearny, was blown of, likewise
a part of a piazza railing on an
apartment house at / Highland ave-
nue., and part of the roof of q dwell
ing at so Kearny avenue.
The slxylight on the office building
n..1 - Co
Johnston avenue, was shattered. The
front door OF the house at 210 Bel
grove drive was blown in, also front
window of the house at 1888 the same
street, and at 376 Kearny avenue the
chimney and a portion of the roof
were blown off.
A portion of the decorative work
over the door of Grace Methodist
Episcopal Church, Berlin street and
Kearny avenue, was blown down. At
Berlin and Windsor streets two CHM
neys toppled over from the force OF
the wind. A tree in the yard of the
house at 2Ss Devon street was blown
down and in falling its branches
pierced a window at that address.
Several poles are reported down in
Passaic avenue.
The fire alarm system in Kearny was
put out of commission during the
early morning, with the result that
the fire bells kept ringing continuous
ly until the defect was repaired.
At the home of DIR. A. A. Mutter,
IN Beach street. the chimney was
blown down. The wind did similar
Leonard A. WINNER, in Chestnut
street.
The fiagpole on Record Hall. Har-
rfson. fell with a crash during the
early part of the storm. Trees in
Kearny and Woodland avenues were
blown down.
In the Silver Lake section of Belle
Vile the roof of a two-story frame
house at 1856 Heckel street, owned by
Sabine Alvino, was torn off. The roof
Of the home of Health Commissioner
Angelo Dominick. 14S Belmont ave-
nue., was also blown off. A quantity
Of slate was detached from the roof
OF the home of former Postmaster
Jeraldo Maioran, 1874 Belmont avenue.
Several telephone poles were downed
at Adelaide street and Greylock ave-
nue.. in the .Greylock section of the
town. In Belleville proper telephone
poles were reported down along
Washington avenue. Trees we're down
in Mill street, Harrison street and
Dewitt avenue.
Il
Hall, in William street, was blown of.
Wires and poles were down in Jorale-
mon street, west of Garden avenue.
Laterals OF the new sewer being con-
structed in Dewitt avenue eaved in.
Slight damage was reported in
Bloomfield. Two trees were blown
down in Grove street. near Bloomfield
avenue. Electric light wires were
brought down In Bloomfield avenue,
near Ella street. The only damage in
Glen Ridge was confined to the blow
ing down of several small trees.
Two OF the three circuits which
supply Nutley with electricity were
rendered useless during the storm.
AS a result two-thirds of the town
was thrown in darkness. Early last
night the Public Service Electric
Company had practically repaired the
damage.
A large window in the Washington
school, East Nutley, was shattered
by the wind. Trees were blown down
in several places.
Some time during Saturday night
and yesterday morning a jitney bus
lost its bearings and crashed into
the porch of a house at liz Center
street. 1t was abandoned and was
discovered by the occupants of the
house when they arose.
According to the Nutley police, no
report of it has been made In that
town. When found the machine was
across the sidewalk rammed up
against the porch.
The machine was taken in charge
by the police. No one had called at
the station to claim it up to a late
hour last night. The bus is said to be
owned by the Clifton Bus Company,
which plies between Passaic and this
city.
The star on the community Christ
mas tree on the village common in
South Orange Village was blown off
but the rest OF the tree was illumi-
mated last night as usual. The only
report of damage in Maplewood was
An electric wire down in Maplewood
avenue.
In Orange municipal electric light
was blown down in Center street. The
force of the wind blew open a locked
door in the new home of Commis-
sioner H. d. Wethling being built in
Mountainview avenue, Orange.
A tree was reported down in High
land avenue, near Fuller street, and
in Washington street, near the Erie
Railroad. A chimney on the house at
II Park street was broken off and in
falling the bricks broke a window IN
the house next door.
Old river men declare that they
cannot remember when the Passaic
was so low at this season of the year
as it was at certain periods. The
water had receded so far from eithey
bank that the bottoms of many boats
we're almost resting on the ground
They ascribed this condition to the
strong westerly wind by sheer force
blowing the water hayward.
Trees and limbs blown into the
streets were the principle results OF
The high windstorm In Irvington yes
ferday. Trees were uprooted on
Springfield and Lyons avenues and