The New York herald., 1921-03-29
Child Buried Under building.

In all Of the sections affected by the
hurricane there were freak weather dis
plays, the strangest being at Ptttsfleld.
Mass. There the people sweltered at
noon In a temperature OF 80 degrees
three hours later the mercury shot
downward and the heavens opened and
dropped a blanket OF snow upon the
city and the district that by o'clock
last night had reached a drift depth Of
Is inches
About the time that the uprooting
Of an old trec in Battery Park gave
warning OF the widespread damage
and destruction about 20 come six
year-old Cabiria Lecco OF 6Soi Six
teenth avenue Brooklyn. was on her
way home from Public School No. liz
at Fifteenth avenue ard Seventy-second
street, In the Fort Hamilton district OF
Brooklyn. She struggled along in the face
Of the wind. her school books Under her
arm and her slight body bent nearly
double with the efforts 70 make her way
against the blasts.
She reached. finally. the corner OF
Sixty-ninth street and New Utrecht
avenue and started bravely up Sixty
ninth street She got as FAR as tho
front OF the ono story building. nov
vacant, which several years ago was
the New Strand moving picture theatre.
a .ramshackle old structure long since
abandoned By the theatre owners as
unsafe. But she got no further. BY
that time tho storm was at its height.
Two or three persons struggling along
on the other side or the street noticed
that tho little girl was making but
little headway against The wind. and
then suddenly they heard q crash and
the old building buckled within itself
and collapsed. throwing most of its
bulk across the Sidewalk
Everyone who had seen the collapse
OF tho building looked for the girl after
the excitement had subsided somewhat,
but there were no signs OF her. Shc had
last been seen directly in front OF the
theatre entrance. and there her body
was found last night az $50 BY two
firemen or Truck Company No. tis
after they had worked for several hours
by the light of torches and searchlights
digging into the ruins with picks and
dAes. Siit Ans Hl0AN vi tAat kthfNt4a~4.tt
her school books BY her side, and hee
arms outstretched a. she had tried 20
ward Off the plungins mass Of iron and
timber. The back OF her skull was
crushed BY a heavy joliet that lay slant
wise across her body. Her mother. who
had stood beside the firemen for three
hours and watched them dig into the
wreckage In search OF tho child, tainted
when the body was uncovered and was
attended BY an ambulance surgeon AMI
sent home. More than n thousand per-
cons gathered about the scene during
the search and the excitement IN the
district was intense.
Many other Children Hurt.
SO far az The police lad received re.
ports last night this was the only death
caused BY the storm In New York city,
although more than score OF lesser
accidents were reported. In several Of
these children were struck b. falling
signs and seriously hurt; one boy. VIII
ford Kerdeny, 4 years old. OF 80 West
Fifty-scventh street. was struck on the
head By a flower pot that was blown
from window tn fe6 West Fifty'-seventh
street and his skull was crushed. He
vas taken to Roosevelt. Hospital un-
conscious and probably will die At
about the same time Mrs. Pauline
stceder or $500 Park avenue was cross