The sun., 1918-08-15
RIVER GALE DRIVES
CRUISER ASHORE
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their small size saved them. As Il was
they were tossed about and driven in
shore despite their most vigorous pulling
at the oars that were impressed into
service to supplement the strength
of the launches engines Several times
the bluejackets almost succeeded In ef-
fecting a landing. but the wind was too
treacherous and the launches leaned dan
gerously Finally the blue Jackets drove
the launches several blocks south, at the
suggestion of the stranded French
cruisers crew. and made a landing
safely.
It was exactly 8 so o'clock when the
cruiser piled up on the rocks and twenty
minus later four tugs. SUMMONED from
the Battery, were putting alongside her,
the wind having passed up to the drive,
and were attaching ropes. The tide was
at ebb, so their work in the shallow
water near the rocks was made more
easy. At s :35 the cruiser grunted a lit
tie and slipped of into deep water. She
was hurried Off to a new anchorage, an
interior examination Of her hull by Of
fSers and crew revealing that she APP
parenty had not been damaged at all.
The Argentine battieship In the means
time had put her engines into motion
before she could be driven before the
gale. Her crew scurried about and got
into emergency positions. but the cap
tain OF the ship managed TO swing her
blunt nose into the face OF the gale Just
in time. She was righted and rode
safely for the few minutes required for
the gales passing. She was not dam
aged
Wrcckagc Falls Through shaft,
As the storm swept up to the Chatil-
lon there was a binding flash OF light
ming. Great pieces OF charred wood were
found among the debris later, and the
word Of persons who had been looking
out the window when the crash came
also went far,to convince the police and
many others that the cornice had been
struck before the wind got 10 work
Whatever happened the wind did get
hold OF the cornice and the big section
or roof and lifted II high into the abr.
There Is an airshaft that runs down
through the centre OF the building
Down through the shaft. with a roar
that reached into every apartment In
! the twenty-eight which the building con-
tains, plunged more than half a ton of
bricks, mortar. boards, ends OF Chin
neys and other wreckage
The wreckage piled through the glass
square at the bottom OF the shaft. eff
fectually blocking the chief exit from
the stairs and elevators. which are at
the back OF the hallway and directly in
the rear OF the spot where the debris
fell inside OF the hallway The eleva-
tors were put out of commission and for
time the lighting system in the house
was interrupted.
Frantic women tenants stood IN the
| upper Railways ringing Atilely for the
| elevators. until Superintendent Theo-
| Gore Gussman and his hall boys man
| aged to make their way up the stairs
and assure the excited women and chill
dren that the danger was past with the
! first racket
| Chimney just Missed Him.
In his top floor apartment Edward
Solomon was sitting at a table In the
dining room writing a letter while ne
| waited for his wife TO telephone to him
| The telephone bell rang just as the
binding lightning fash was followed by
| the roar and grating of the roof being
| torn off the building. Mr.. Solomon stood
| up and turned toward the hallway OF the
apartment where the telephone was
| hung.
As he stepped away about four feet
| OF "A solid mass OF Ginning plunged
| through the ceiling Of the dining room
| and smashed the table and chair Al
which he had been sitting. In anothe,
apartment on the same floor at the
| same moment H. +. Chickering. who's,
| family Is in the country, was enjoying
| the sight OF the cloudbank sweeping
across the Hudson in the wake OF tn,
gale The windows caved IN on him
like so much tissue paper and he wa.
| sprinkled with the broken glass, but
escaped injury.
Down stairs on the ffth floor Mrs
| Morris Hillqult, wife of thu Socialist
candidate for Mayor in the last cleo
ton, was frightened out OF her wits
when the windows of her apartment
were blown in almost at the same mo.
ment the roof was lifted OFF the house
and the half ton Of debris plunged dowr
through the airshaft. Mr.. Hillqu!t was
not at home
Similar conditions OF half-panic pre-
| vailed in the ST Louis, the second apart
ment in West Ninety fourth street. ant
! in the big Beau Rivage apartments
at BIG West Ninety fourth erect, along
side the Chatillion. unon the roof OF
which part Of the Chatlllon's roof fell
Windows in all of these buildings WERE
| wrecked.