New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-27
CITY SC0URGED
BY VIVID AND HAIL

ac>.tc~. occurred. They were blinded
h. the Wind While attempting 20 cross
Grand S.ree., and tho clouds Of snow
carried b. Che gale ooscurcA them. so
that Michael Ra,h. o, 10 Harrison
stree, Io~7c.h. ~o:orman o. the car.
d.dnot know tl2. he had Dbl. anything
until he f-lt .he wheels lift owe some
obstruction. Rath had turned on fail
power in orGer 20 make headway
against the storm. When he bad
broueh. the car to stop nc whis;.ed
tor Pat-oir-n Obermeyer.
While the policeman telephoaed for
an ambulance bath summoned a wreck
Inc crew. The mca tojloj for a half
hour bc:orc the crgmpled bodies were
pulled out rom beneath enc car. Mrs.
Charles died before SIC reached the
hospital.
Beaten TO death by the brffeting Of
the wind. an unidentified wor1an
dropped In front of q Mchibben
Street. Brooklyn. Patrolman Burke. Of
the Bushwick Avenue Station. carried
the body into a doorway and sum
moned an ambulance from ST. Cath
e-iue's Hospital The woman was deaG
before the surgeon arrived. She car
ried a rosary. was blind in one eye.
wore gold-rimmed spectacles, and was
apparently about fifty.
Bronx Suffers Much.
While New York and the SUBURBS
suffered alike from the blast. which
scarcely slackened uAtii roontime. u
vas the far Of reaches Of The Bronx,
that buffer. state between White Plains
and Manhattan. which bore the brunt
Of the attack.
Herc<the wind hogan operations by
putting both fire alarm and Iollce tele-
phone systems out OF commission. II
then blew out windows by the hundred
and seventy-fve telegraph poles were
snapped off. Plate glass windows IN
the fremont branch of the Corn TX
change Bank and the Office OF The
American" at l4sth Street, were shat-
tered
Two new three story buildings were
blown fat. One at East Chester Ave
nue. and Boston Road was not com
plctcd. The other. brick structure
Al 762 South Oak Drive. was ready Tor
tenants. A cornice Of the five story
building at 50l Vest l5+th Street was
torn of. l. smashed three electric
signs and . telegraph pole IN It's de
scent.
Al 2:3O o'clock the gale began to
abatc and logged along ~ mere sixty
seven miles an how William DletL'
seloonkceper Of 130 Eas: 18Th street.
interpreted this calm a. an especially
designed opportunity foc him to repair
fence on his property at 23O7 South-
crp Boulevard. In the midst Of his
work the fence fell on him and he was
taken TO Fordham Hospital with
broken right hip.
Brief duration Of the snowstorm and
the fact that II came upon day OF
light traffic saved the railroads TerlOus
delays. All lines with terminals mere
reported minor damage 20 wires and
signals, but insisted that the service
wac not greatly delayed throughout The
day. The freight yards we're congested,
however. and the New York. New ha-
ven & Hartford Railroad Company is
sued the following last night:
con accoint Of storms and accumu-
lations Of loaded cars, embargo IS
placed on all carload and less carload
freight, except livestock, perishab!es.
food products for human consumption
and coal for all points West and eN-
elusive Of New London and WillimantIc
and south Of the Boston Albany
Railroad All freghts for Pittsfeid,
Westfeld. Springfield. Northampton,
Mass. and Hartford. Conn, will be &C
ceptcd. All freight billed prior to and
including December q for the embar-
coed territory will be received"
On Staten Island the wind continued
It's destruction, killing one man. up
roofing trees and putting telephone.
telegraph and electric light systems out
OF commission.
Patrick Trubritty. Of William Street.
Tottenvile. a hagman NJ the Woodvail
Avenue crossing Of the Staten Island
RAND Transit AZ Pleasant Plains, was
lifted By a gust Of wind while on duty
and thrown beneath the wheels OF
passing train. He died instantly.
Many other Staten Islanders were in
jurcd by falls on the ice which sheathed
the streets.
Many barges and smiling craft were
dashed ashore along the Brooklyn
waterfront A. Gravcscnd Bay the nigh
waves wished ashore the body of Mrs.
Hcrtlcin, who drowned her
self on November p. She was idcn-
tilted by her mother, Clara Gcrtsh, OF
57G Central Avenue.
with the temperature stu falling
late last night. all the regular force %
the Street Cleaning Department, to-
gether with thousands Of reserves. were
getting rid OF the snow BY dumping IT