Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-07-09
CYCLONE SWEEPS
CENTRAL JERSEY,
|NJUR|NG MANY
Property Damaged and Sew
eraI Injured at keansburg
by 8O-MiIe Gale.

cyclonic freak Jagged its way
out of the West yesterday afternoon.
swept across Central New Jersey and
passed out to sec, after destroying
thousands of dollars worth of prop
erty and ,njuring a number of people
IL lasted less than half an hour, and
passed over Hunterdon, Somerset,
Middlesex and Monmouth counties.
The villages of East Milestone and
South Bound Brook. in Somerset
county, and keansburg, i'm Monmouth
county, suffered the most. In Keans-
burg the wind, said to have been
travelling at the rate of eighty miles
an hour. ripped the roof off the shed
on the stea mboat dock and threw it
at right angles with the dock, break
ing mans leg. Julie Miller four
teen year-Old girl, happened to be in
the way of a candy store that the ey-
clone was carrying out to Raritan
bay and she was knocked unconscious
and her right leg broken. Several
others were carried by the wind and
We're taken TO the hospital with
broken bones or other injuries.
Miss Miller was near candy stand
a short distance from the dock of the
Keansburg Steamboat Company when
the small frame stand was struck by
the sudden wind. The stand was
hurled across the street toward the
dock and ended its course in Raritan
tay. 1t hit Miss Miller with such
force that she was knocked to the
ground unconscious. and when DIR. b.
E Failing. of Atlantic Highlands,
and DR.. Hartman, of Keansburg, ar
rived To treat the injured. it was
III
broken. She was taken to the Mon
mouth Hospital. at Long Branch
Samuel Brazil. workman. was
standing near freigh shed on the
dock. The shed was almost totally
demolished when the wind struck II,
and Brazil was struck by flying tim
Der and then carried forty feet by
:. The wind itself He was also taken
10 the hospital, suffering from severe
bruises and cuts about the head
Two men working in the freight
shed. Nicholas Bean and Patrick
o Brien, were cut about the body
and legs by falling boards and flying
glass. and Beans shoulder was
broken,
Buried Under Debris.
The wind struck the roof Of the
steamboat company's dock. which
extends for a considerable distance
into the bay The wind got under
the roof. ripped it bodily from its
supports and threw ii about nearly
al right angles with tho dock itself
so that when it finally crashed to
tbe dock part of the roof overhung
on either side,
Samuel Queen was pinned under
part of the wooden mass and sus-
tanned fractured leg, and Albert
Parker, p young man who was wait
ing on the dock for a boat due in
ten minutes, was thrown into a
huge coal bin. His face and neck
we're cut and bruised Samuel Far
dale was caught under part of the
falling debris and sustained internal
injuries, which the physicians feared
might prove fatal, while several
others suffered minor injuries from
nyinG glass and splinters. William
Gelhaus, nephew of the president Of
the steamboat company, was also
slightly injured.
A number of persons in rowboats
and canoes near the dock escaped
being struck by the high wind by a
narrow margin, having seen the
coming storm and made for shore n.
top speed.
seventy Ave Trees snapped on.
! At East Milestone the violent wind
ripped the roof off the Pennsylvania
| railroad roundhouse and snapped the
| trunks Of seventy five trees along the
streets. A section of the galvanized
| iron roof on the works of the Harmer
Rubber Reclaiming Company was
torn off and whirled high in the air
! 1t landed an eighth of mile away IN
the back yard OF one of the villagers
and the fact that no one was killed
| by the hurting sheet of metal was
considered little short of miraculous
Trains were blocked for nearly an
hour. while workmen cleared the
tracks of trees after the storm had
passed, and the storm passed as
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