Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-12
Bathers and Boating Parties
Vanish in Sweep of
Wild Waters
200 CRAFT CAPSIZED
Ferris Wheel Full of Riders
Catapulted Through Air
In New York :.
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WASHINGTON, June 12.-The
Mayflower, bearing President and
and Mrs. Harding, and a few
guests, arrived here early today
after weathering the wind and
rainstorm in Chesapeake bay late
yesterday.
NEW YORK, June 1o.-Reports were
received here this afternoon of new
storm sweeping up New York state.
Telegraph lines were cut by the gale
between Troy and Syracuse.
The area of the new gale extended
eastward from the vicinity of Schenec-
tady of the New England states.
Wire communication between New
York and Montreal was interrupted by
the storm
A violent wind storm swept through
ing telegraph and telephone lines, ac
cording to q dispatch from Albany.
Trees were uprooted by the hurricane
which cut a 40 mile swath.
A tornado which carried death and
destruction to New York and extended
to New England, Pennsylvania and
Ohio, yesterday caused an estimated
loss of nearly 80 lives, injured hundreds
and resulted in property damage OF
millions of dollars.
New York police have a death list of
43 and reports from up state bring the
total to go 1t is believed many other
casualties may be reported.
Eleven Bodies Picked Up
Pitiful scenes were enacted at City
Island today, as the bathhouse to
which many victims never returned,
was broken open and unclaimed cloth
ing taken to police headquarters for
possible Identification.
Many capsized boats, hired by pleas
ure seekers, drifted in with the tide.
Eleven bodies were picked up by 10
police boat today.
The heaviest life toll was taken at
City Island, resort suburb, where the
gale, accompanied by sheets of rain,
bursts of hail, and almost continuous
play of lightning, caused casualties es-
timated as high as 30 dead.
The twisting tornado touched the
water as it ripped along at nearly 30
miles an hour. Nothing like the storm
was known in the memory of the Oldest
inhabitant. 1t had all the characters
ties of prairie twister, cutting swath
up the bay, pleasure yachts half a
mile from its path riding squally
waters in safety, their occupants, eye
witnesses to the tragedies in the wage
of the storm.
On land, the tornado assumed the
same terrifying proportions. Trees
were whirled up from their roots and
hurled through the air like giant nine
pins.
Mother and Daughter Pinned
One was sent smashing through the
roof of an inn, pinning Mrs. X. Wanna
and her little girl to their death be-
meath it.
sons were killed and 81 injured when
the winds and torrential rains tore a
Ferris wheel from its base, at Clazon
Point park and catapulted it through
the air to the beach.
The passengers were hurled to the
ground amid mass of twisted steel
and their bodies crushed, many of them
almost beyond recognition.
1t was estimated today that 200 craft
around the City Island waters were
capsized by the storm and many OF
them submerged.
Mrs. Mary Petzold, was in tiny
pleasure craft with six other persons
when the gale swooped down on them.
The boat tipped over like leaf. The
passengers We're tossed into the waves,
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