The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-05-05
CITY AND COAST
ARE HARDHIT BY
AN 80-MILE GALE
Many Near Death as Small
Craft Are Overturned
by Wind.
MANHATTAN HARD HIT
Scores Injured by Flying
Signs and Bricks
From Roofs.
STATEN ISLAND DARK
Windows Are Blown Out by
Wind in Stores Along
Broadway.
STATEN ISLAND DARK

A gale out of season broke at an
eighty mile pace off the coast yester-
day, raised the water ten feet at Coney
Island and along the Jersey coast,
flooding inland: capsiZed q fishing
sloop off False Hook Buoy, imperilling
her crew of three men, and played
havoc ashore with flying chimney
bricks, and glass from demolished win
dows. A violent gust ripped away a
big sign at Lafayette and Bleecker
streets. and sent it whirlng down
fifty feet to a crowd entering a sub
way kiosk. Nine were injured. OF
whom three were sent to hospital
In South Brooklyn, where the gale
swept hardest in from the sea, trees
were uprooted. chimneys blown down
and traffic in the streets made peril
Gus. The water rose over the bulk
head line at Coney Island and flooded
Ocean Parkway. making the West
Eighth street elevated station unap-
proachable except In rubber boots.
proprietor OF the Hotel St. George.
Brooklyn. was injured by a tree which
fell on his automobile while he was
driving with his son. Major ]. w.
Tumbridge, in Clinton street, near
Congress street. The tree crashed
through the top Of the car and struck
Capt. Tumbridge a glancing blow on
the shoulder. Major Tumbridge es-
capped injury.
The falling OF the thirty-fve foot
sign at the sixth floor above the sub
way kiosk came without warning. II
carried smaller signs with Il. which
DETECTED Its course and probably pre-
vented a fatality.
Along the Jersey coast and the
Staten Island shore the water reached
high level. The tracks OF the New
York and Long Branch Railroad at
South Amboy. Morgan and Reyport
were flooded. and washouts were ex-
pected. Piers at the water front were
under water. A coast guard crew from
the Sandy Hook station rescued Robert
White. Sr.. his son Robert and Charles
Contre OF the sloop Mamie c.. OF Sea-
bright. y. j., which was overturned by
the gale The three men chung to the
sloop until aid arrived.
Theatregoers along Broadway at
Forty-ninth street. stopped to chase a
dozen expensive hats which flew out OF
a millinery store window just after the
plate glass window blew in. police
man supervised the recovery of the hats
Elsewhere about the city many per-
sons were Injured. David Weisseild. a.
OF s04 Washington avenue. The Bronx
was hit on the head by a block OF wood
blown from 227 Park Row. II stunned
him. Jennie Finley. a negress. OF 240
West Fortieth street. was passing 2l21
Broadway when big plate glass front
blew out. showering her with glass. and
knocking her down. She was taken to
Knickerboclser Hospital with n bad cut
over the left eye and possible skull
fracture.
An So foot steel chimney at the n.
X It. power plant west OF the Ninth
street bridge over Gowanus Canal.
Brooklyn, bent under the wind pressure
and took the position of the Leaning
Tower of Pisa Traffic over the bridge
was suspended In expectation the chin
ney would fall. by order OF Superintend-
ent OF Buildings Kleinert. Smith street
cars We're diverted through Smith street
to Hamilton avenue and Third street.
Staten Island was rendered dark by
blown down electric light wires, and troll
ley service was intermittent for about
an hour and a half.