The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1922-06-23
FATAL STORMS IN
NEWYORK VICINITY
Wild Panic in Pleasure Park and
Rescues Hampered by Dark
ness and DeIuge of Rain.
MILLIONS LOST IN STATE
Ferris Wheel Smash at CIason Point
Came as DeIuge Broke-Victims
Found in Debrs-City Island
Drownings Furnish Big Toll.

New York. -Uprooted and blown
high into the air by the most terrific
wind ever known in this part of the
world, big trees on their fall to earth
Sunday afternoon killed six persons.
The list of deal in and near New York
city was increased to total OF ap-
proximately fifty by the storm and by
contract with live wires and by other
causes directly due to the storm. Trees
plunged through house and crushed
automobiles like beetles
For a period of about twelve mtn-
utes, beginning at 5 80 o'clock, the
wind achieved a fury previously un-
known in this region, blowing down
thousands of trees and overturning
hundreds of small boats. The heaviest
loss of life was at City Island, where
probably thirty were drowned.
A linden 100 feet high, lifted from
the ground by sudden blast in the
midst of what minute earlier had
been a pleasant afternoon, crashed
through the roof of the Red Lion Inn,
Mamaroneck, at 5 80 o'clock, killing a
young woman and her daughter, who
were at dinner, and injuring five of the
other seventeen diners.
Another Wind-driven tree killed q
mother and infant on their own door
step at New Rochelle. Another killed
q man in his automobile on Long Is
land. Roads and streets were Uttered
with live wires, which killed others.
Two Long Island trains and several
local trains In New Jersey were stop
ped by trees across their paths. Thou
sands of passengers on suburban troll
ley lines were stalled for hours when
trees were blown across the rails.
Trees were uprooted by thousands
in most sections of Long Island and
New Jersey and hurled about by gusts
Of titanic power, as feather busters
would be whirled along in an ordinary
gale. Roofs of houses were ranmed
through and barns and small houses
smashed to kindling under the pound
ing Of trees.
The storm, which was like western
tornado in spots, followed a broad but
irregular track, missing some sections
and hitting others with concentrated
violence Streets were roped off by
the police in Paterson because of the
live wires strewn along the streets.
Death-bearing wires caused two deaths
in Newark and kept hundreds of po-
lice guarding the public at other points
xrrtrn
were heaped up.
The dead at the Red Lion Inn on the
Boston Post road are Mrs. Adam
Wranna, twenty-six years old, Of 50
India street, Brooklyn, and her daugh-
ter Roslyn, seven years old.
Thirty-twO persons are known to
have been killed in drownings, by
falling trees, by the collapse Of Fer
ris wheel at Bronx amusement park
and in other accidents directly due to
the storm. At least fifty people were
hurt, and the police believe that when
full reports have been received from
the suburban district the number of
both the dead and the injured will be
increased.
Six of the dead were crushed be-
meath a mass of twisted steel girders
and heavy timbers when the Ferris
wheel at the Clason Point Amusement
Park at Sound View avenue, Clason
Point, the Bronx, collapsed at the
height of the storm. Twenty-Five 9th
ers were dragged from the pile of
debris by rescuers, who dug into the
wreckage in the face Of high wind
and a binding, driving rain. Eleven
of these were so badly hurt that they
were sent to hospitals. The thousands
of persons at the resort were thrown
into q panic, which was quelled only
by the arrival Of more than 200 police
men from the Bronx police stations
Albany.-Two deaths and property
damage running into millions of dol
lars resulted from a series of electrical
storms in northern and central New
York. Flood conditions prevail along
portions of the Mohawk Valley and
westward through Oneida and Syra-
cuse.
The property loss at Syracuse was
placed at $1,OOO,0OO, and it was be-
lieved that the city Of Oneida was
damaged to the extent of 100000.
The residential and business sections
Of Syracuse were from six inches to a
foot under water, and the tunnel under
the Erie canal, through which the New
York Central trains pass, was flooded.
New York Central train No. SO, the
Western New York Express, was trap
ped by the flood near Syracuse. The
200 passengers were rescued by train
men and firemen from Syracuse