Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-02-05
NEW YORK PARALYzED


The high tide flooded the Erie terminal
| IN Jersey City and several hundred Yards
of the street from the entrance to the
station.
Ferry service tn New York was dis
continued water leaked from the Erie
| station INTO o station Of the Hudson tubes
| and sprinkIed commuters
Some New Jersey trains were two hours
late arriving At Jersey City owing TO snow
drifts
Reports from the New York quarantine
station, on the ensterly shore Of Staten
Island, were that heavy ice foes from the
Hudson river were being driven on the
beaches and against the wharves.
The binding snow storm made il i'm
possible for observers To see more than a
hundred yards off shore and two ships
which came IN during the night we're
located by the captains Of the health
officers tugs by repeated whistling.
BIG BEACH HoryL SWEPT AvA..
The Pasadena, summer hotel on the
beach Mt the foot Of S6th street, Brooklyn.
WAS washed into New York Bay by The
wind and was dashed high on the shore
during tho night and early morning. The
police report IL a total loss. Two bathing
paviions On the same beach, az the foot
Of l02nd and 18th streets also were
swept away.
Three Long Island Sound steamers were
fast in the ice today near Execution light,
of New Rochelle, N. Y, and sound ship
ping was practically at standstill as
result of the storm.
The vessels IN the ice were the Name,
which left New York yesterday afternoon
for bridgeport, Conn. the New Harnp-
shire, from New London for New York,
and the Pequonnock from New York for
New Bedford.
In response to rocket signals from the /
Maine, which had three passengers and |
crew OF seventy, a feet Of tugs was sent /
to the scene from New York Later all /
three ships reported that they were held /
last but we're not IN great danger
The Colonial steamer Concord, bound /
from Providence To New York. put back |
into Providence today after touching at /
Newport, according to information re- +
ceived by the line here. No report had I
been received this morning from the /
Colonial line steamer Lexington, which /
left New York for Providence last evening. I
STATEN ISLAND BURIED IN SNOW.
Bus service on staten island which was
when street railway suspended
operations, Was discontinued on account
Of the storm, forcing 900 persons To
walk through deep drifts TO steam rail-
road stations or TO ferries. Steam trains
were late and one steam road had no plows
with which to remove drifts four feet
leep.
Drifts harnpered ambulances In re-
moving influenza victims 20 hospitals
Ii took one city ambulance two hours TO
90 one and s half miles with patient. 4
motor bcaroa u L 4
body from hospital 10 a residence when
the trip would not have re-
Iuired half an hour
Three firemen were Knocked off an ex
ension ladder by waves while they were
rylng to rescue two men and a woman on
he roof of hotel which was washed
rom Its foundations at Rockaway Beach.
Three policemen launched q boat and
escued all six.
-Four hotels, hundreds of feet OF the
boardwalk and many amusement places
we're washed into the sea or seriously
damaged by the waves.
HEAVY pAMAGEAr COMFY ISLAND.
Much damage was done at Coney Is
and. Waves destroyed The Atlantic bath
ouse, which cost $4,000 ard Taunton
saths, which We're valued at $4,000.
-everal other baths were damaged.
Nearly 100 bungalows were washed
rom their foundations at Concy Island
nd the water was three feet deep on the |
lain thoroughfare, which is 800 feet from |
he beach and lined with amusement |
laces
Water flooded the first floor of the |
lotel Shelburne, the largest Mt Coney
stand, l50 feet from the beach
The weather bureau predicted that the
-orm along the coast would continue all :
he afternoon and probably tonight, with =
loW and strong northeast winds. II