New-York tribune., 1918-03-11
82-Mile Gale
Brings Death and
Damage TO City
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puiled ncf TWO anChOfS Tree and Qrlfted
away before the gale under bare sticks
She was perilously near the rocks at
Wort Hamilton when a towboat got a
line to her. Of Tompkinsville, at the
same time, four United States warships
whose captains put no extra trust in
extra mudhooks kept steam up through
tho day. All Staten Island between
Tottenville and New Dorp had a dark
night ashore. Wires innumerable had
been blown down and The electric light
company shut off its power completely
as a precautionary measure.
In the woods back of New Brighton
Boy Scouts spent the afternoon at
man@uvres. Raymond Post, seventeen
years DID, was delegated a. s.observer
and sent up q tree. He wM twenty
feet aloft when he felt the wind Next
he felt the ground. Then his right
arm. 1t was broken.
The right arm of Frederick Hanlin.
fifty-ciGht years old, Of 366 Jersey
Street, New Brighton, also was broken.
The wind picked Hanlin up from q
sidewalk in Stapleton apd deposited
hi-l in front of a trolley car.
Air Filled With Bricks
Another such gust. localized in Man.
against the pavement at 146th Street
and Broadway and placed his face
where they had heen. Beals. who is
eightythrec and lives at 5l4 West
146th Street. was taken to st. Law
renee Hospital suffering from shock
In front of the Lyric Theatre display
sign slipped its moorings and happened
on the head of Thomsa Joyce. fifty
cne, of 458 West Forty eighth Street
Joyce was taken home after he had
been bandaged by an ambulance sur
Geon.
For several seconds It rained bricks
on the roof of Henry ". Tafts home,
at SO West Forty eighth Street. on the
sidewalk in front and in the back yard.
When the shower had let up Mr.. Taft
discovered that it was a chimney next
door which had taken wings No cas-
ualties.
OF all the misadventures on land and
water occasioned by the big wind that
which befell twenty fishermen in the
Sound was the dismalest. and skirted
close to tragedy. The fishermen had
set out from Hudson Park. New Ro-
chellc, in the morning aboard the CO.
foot power boat Moccasn to see if
founders were running. 1t was the
Moccasin's first trip of the season and
came close to being her last.
At . O'Clock in the afternoon. whom
the storm was at its worst, the Moc-
casin's engine went dead. The boat
was thcn about three miles off thc
Bayville beach. Four anchors were
cropped over One after another the
cables snapped.
1 There wasn't room in the IIoccasin's
CABIN for much more than the engine.
ihe lshermen tooi turns under shell
ter. For three quarters of an hour the
ooat driftcd broadside on. with seas
breaking over her an! frcezinp wnore
they hit. Then she hit the rocks a
couple of hundred yards off the beach.
The fishermen had life preservers on
by that time. They couldn't be much
colder or much wetter, so overheard
}hey went. Employees ON the estate of
Lachariah Wilson. whose shorefront
the Moccasin had trespasscd upon, went
TO the rescue.
SIX Of the fishermen were so OK
hausted they had TO be dragged out OF
the surf. One OF them Leo Smith, Of
100 East l35th Street only recently
mad rccovered from an attack OF pneu-
monla' and his condition was such that
Re was hurried to Mincola Hospital.
Before blazing fire in the Wilson
/ place the rest were yhawed out until
they were in shape to start for their
homes. In the late cXigency the whole
purpose of their voyage had been for
gotten. No one knows yet whether the
+ report is true that founders are run
ming in the Sound
In New ork there was a slight snow
fall between 11:l5 in the morning ana
O'Clock IN the Afternoon This WAS
the tail of a snowstorm that rrippcc
/ Connecticut. played havoc with trolle1.
service ard sewcd UP things or the
Now Haven electric zonc.
The hurricane originated in q small
way Thursday morning. 1t was COOK
ing up in Nevada when the Wcathr,
Bureau hrst took note of II. incrrss-
ing in violence as it moved. il had
reached centrc over Utah and IGohr
by Friday morning, and soiourued ovor
Ohlc through Saturday. 1t was in Ohio
and Kentucky the greatest damare Was
done.
Yesterdays storm ccntre--wcll tbc
weather man said so, anyhow-~,v,,s
not at Broadway and rorty-sccona
Street, New York, but somcwhcrc on
Nantucket. '
Brig. Gen. Evans Has Dipsther;a
AVER, Mass, March 9. griradicr.
General +. u. Evans. attached ''I' TO- thc