Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-12-22
Big DAMAGE DONE
BY TERRIFIC GALE
BUFFALO, N. v, SCENE OF WIND
SToRM-PRoPERTY LOSS
Is VERY HEAVY
ONE KILLED; SEVERAL HURT
Two Women Caught Under Falling
Tree-Nearly 100 Shantles Swept
Away-AIso Hits N. Y. City

Buffalo, N. VA 95-mile-an-hour,
gale swept the city, uprooting trees,
tearing down chimneys, smashing plate
glass windows and piling up water in
the harbor to an unprecedented stage.
Only one man is reported to have been
killed in the storm, which is consid-
cred remarkable.
The damage throughout the city was
great, but heaviest losses occurred
along the water front, where S0O-foot;
wireless tower was demolished, boat
houses and small docks were swept
away and several hundred pleasures
craft were smashed or carried down;
the river.
The property loss will run into hum
dreds of thousands of dollars.
A window hatch, torn from the top
of a business block fell on a passing
automobile, killing Frank B. Kiefer,
one of the two occupants, and injuring
the other seriously. The hatch went
through the windshield and pinned
Kiefer to the seat. The automobile,
with both occupants unconscious, ran
about block before it swerved and
crashed into a store front.
Two women were caught under q
falling tree on Porter avenue, near the
water front. One of them, Miss Mar
garet Cochrane, sustained both legs
broken. Her sister, Katharine, was
injured, and fireman had to-
cut away part of the tree trunk before
she could be released.
The wind, blowing from the south
west, directly down Lake Erie, piled
up the water until Bird island pier
and Squaw island were almost com,
pletely submerged. Nearly one hum
1red squatters' shanties were carried =
,ut into Niagara river. Their occu-
PANTS were rescued by police, firemen
md the coast guard crew.
Three ferryboats, used in the service
between Buffalo and Fort Erie, were
,iled up ON the rocks between the river
md the canal.
At Tonawanda the water rose eight
eet above normal, flooding the large
lumber yards there and carrying thou
ands of feet of timber into the river
nd over Niagara falls. A dredge an
hored off Grand island began to drift
oward the falls, but managed to find
anchorage by digging its steel dipper
nto mud river on the river bed
Seldom has such volume of water
CURED over the brink of the Niagara
ataract The waters of Lake Erie
rowded into Niagara river, causing
swirling flood where usually there
re only few scant inches. Such
GODS poured over the precipice that
ne pier of the Maid of the Mist was
lbmerged.
Many island just above the falls
ere submerged for the first time in
ears. Great property damage was
one on the upper river between La
allie and Niagara Falls, on Riverside
oathouses and motorboats. One es-
mate of the property loss there is
300, 900. No loss of life was reported.
II the large lake boats here weather
the storm. Some dragged their
lchors, but none was beached.
New York.--Winds of cyclonic char
ter, accompanied by heavy rains,
sited New York, caused slight dam
re in lower Manhattan, then jumped
the Bronx and wrought destruction
the Unionpoint section in a wide
ca. An unidentified man, dead from
posure, was found on a Bowery side
Xix. There were no other casualties.
'lephone wires pier head and the
offs of several small buildings on the
lnhattan water front were carried
'ay. Telephone poles in several sec
ms of the city snapped in two before
, gale, and many windows were shat.
ed.