Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-06-12

Pelham Bay and Long Island SOUND
were -dotted>4uith overturned row
boats. launches, canoes and yachts.
start Rcncue Work.
The police Immediately started tho
work OF rescue. At . o'clock to-
night. eight bodies had been rccov
cred. and Lieutenant Reiley said he
was making Il conservative estimate
when he put the bodies to be recov-
cred at thirty. Following the trag-
cdy. City Island became a scene OF
pandemonium. Many of the men had
gone out to fish and left their wives
and children there TO picnic. As
soon as knowledge of the drownincS
became general and heads of fam
ilics. sons and, in some instances,
daughters. failed IL return, the sur
vivors became hystcricai
All communication by telephone
with the island was cut off by tho
razing of wires and telephone poles.
and this hampercd the police. They
imrrovised a morguc In one of th,.
bathing paviiions. and as rapidly
as the bodies were recovered they
were taken there for Identification
Five persons were killed and more
than forty hurt when the wind
caught huge Ferris wheel at the
Clason Point Amusement Park and
it crashed to tho ground
y woman and her T-ysar-old
daughter were crushed to death and
several other persons injured when
an oak tree blown By the wind
crashed through the roof to the
crowded dining room OF the Red Lion
Inn. on Boston Post Road, carry
ing with it an old-fashioned stone
chimney.
Bodies Washed Ashore.
The bodies OF seven canoeists
caught in Long Island Sound. off
City Island, at the height of the
storm. were washed ashore after
nightfall
Miss Edda Smith. II, walking with
companion along the Reservoir
Road at oss!ning, was blown into the
water and drowned.
Charles Emerson. Ncw Roohni,o
ciothinG manufactures, was rowing
III Echo Bay with his wife and three
on''dren when the storm broke. He
managed to row to shore. then died
from heart attack.
tree fell across party OF motor
'N."S Shtittr on the Brook
Nii!e Road, near Locust Valley, Long
Island. killing Harry ualloran ~
oyster kay. and seriously injurInS
ms three male companions.
unanie to reach shore in the stifr
wind Jack Lowenthal, 20. war
drowned whilo swimming in East
River.
Concetti Basiatao and his l0-year-
"'d son anthony, OF Mount Vernon.
were killed when tree under which
they had found shelter in the Bronx
was struck by lightning.
TWO men were killed in Newark.
y. J' when they came in contac,
win electric wires torn down by
the wind.
massive decaycd tree on the
New York k-Westchester County line
at Mount Vernon fell crushing 10
nsa'h Mrs. cassie Cavavalio and her
infant son.
Moe RuSkine. one OF a partv NJ
canoeists in Echo Bay, was drowned.
Three other members OF tho party
swan TO shore after tho canoe cap
sized
Ten eNcursionists on tho ferryboat
Mi!desrad. returning from Interstate
Park, y. j.. TO West one Hundred
ana Fttty-eighth Street, were in
jurcd when the wind tore a iifcboat
from Its davits. In falling tho boa,
struck the railing or the lower deck
at spot where about dozen pas
senEcrs had gathered for shelter,
'hen II slid into the river and dis
appeared Sidney Jacob. IL. was
| badly hurt and was taken 10 a hos
pital. Others injured were able 20
go TO their homes. -