Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-12

Reilly of the City Island detectives
| that no fewer than 10000 persons
were fishing when the storm broke.
After it had passed and the sky clear
/ ed, the waters of Pelham bay and Long
Island sound were dotted with over
turned row boats, launches, canoes and
yachts. The police Immediately start
ed the work of rescue.
Many men had gone to fish and left
their wives and children to picnic. AS
soon as knowledge of the drownings
,, became generally known women and
children left behind became hysterical
All communication by telephone with
the island was cut off by the razing of
wires and telephone poles, and this
hampered the police. They improvised
morgue in one of the bathing paw
lions and as rapidly as the bodies were
recovered they were taken there for
Identification
Rescuer Is Drowned
One of the heroic deeds reported
in Long Island sound cost the life of
John Anderson, who. exhausted after
rescuing Miss Gladys Redinger his
finance. was drowned. Anderson and
Miss Redinger were canoeing on the
sound. The canoe was overturned in
the storm and Anderson swan with
the girl until he reached the craft and
helped her to gain hold on it. Just
as rescuing yacht sailed up, Ander-
sons hold on the overturned canoe
failed. and he sank.
Ten excursionists on the ferryboat
Mildegrad. returning from Interstate
park, n. j., to West One Hundred and
Fifty eighth street, were injured when
the wind tore lifeboat from its fas-
Jennings. In falling the boat struck the
railing of the lower deck at a spot
where about dozen passengers had
gathered for shelter. then it slid into
the river and disappeared
The fury of the storm broke sud-
denly over a little amusement park at
Classons Point. the Bronx. lashed into
a Ferris wheel crowded with young
passed on, leaving six known dead and
more than 40 injured
Shrieks came from the broken steel
cars of the wheel as it carried its cargo
of youth high up into the breezes. Then
came the storm and maddened cries of
fear and agony as the upper half broke
away and was catapulted by the winds
into the shallow waters of Long Island
sound The lower half buckled and fell,
a twisted mass of STEEL wooden girders
and human bodies.
Panic at Ferris Wheel
The hundreds of men, women and
children in the resort were thrown
into a panic.
Amid the lightning flashes, the thun-
der's roar and the rain torrents. women
tainted. men fought and children were
brushed aside in frantic efforts to
reach shelter and to lose sight of the
CHASTITY pile that so shortly before had
been wheel of merriment
But many rushed to the wreck and
worked madly to extricate the bodies of
the living, the dying and the dead
Efforts were made to telephone for
and physicians. but the
were sent to the nearest hospitals, two
storm had taken the wires
Men in commandeered automobiles |
miles away. and soon corps Of physi !
clans. surgeons and nurses We're at I;
the park Four ambulances responded |
and worked in relays removing the !
injured
Many of the frai buildings Of the |
in the park were blown !
away.
Storm Broke Suddenly
Members of the Ferris wheel crew
said the storm broke so suddenly that
il was impossible to remove the pas |
sengers. AThey said about 60 persons