The New York herald., 1922-06-12
TREES KILL SEVEN
Number Of Victims and
Amount Of Wreckage
Increase With Late
Reports.
FALLEN WIRES FATAL
Ferris Wheel Smash at
Clason Point Came as
Deluge Broke.
VICTIMS FOUND IN DEBRIS
Woman and Baby in Her Arms
Die as Tree Hits Them
at Yonkers.
VICTIMS FOUND IN DEBRIS

A storm of battering hail and rain
that fell in sheets, accompanied by
twenty-four degree drop in temper
ature and gale that attained a
velocity of Lightweight miles an
hour, swept over New York late yes
terday afternoon, causing immense
property damage and great loss OF
life throughout the metropolitan dis
trict. Twenty-Five persons are known
to have been killed in drownings, by
falling trees, by the collapse of a
Ferris wheel in Bronx amusement
park and in other accidents directly
due to the storm. At least fifty peo-
pie were hurt, and the police believe
that when full reports have been re-
ceived from the suburban district the
number of both the dead and the in
jured will be increased.
Six of the dead were crushed be-
meath mass of twisted steel girders
and heavy timbers when the Ferris
wheel at the Clason Point Amuse-
ment Park at Sound View avenue.
Clason Point, The Bronx, collapsed
at the height of the storm. Twenty
five others were dragged from the
pile of debris by rescuers. who dug
into the wreckage In the face of
high wind and binding, driving
rain. Eleven of these were so badly
hurt that they were sent to hospitals.
The thousands Of persons at the re-
sort were thrown into panic, which
was quelled only by the arrival OF
more than 200 policemen from the
Bronx police stations.
other Victims of Storm.
At the Red Lion Inn, on the Bos-
ton Post road, near Mamaroneck,
Westchester county. Mrs. Abram
Wrana and. her daughter Rosalyn, z.
Of 95 India street. Brooklyn, were
killed when a tree blown down by
the storm crashed through the roof
of the inn, smashing a brick Chin
ney and burying the woman and the
girl beneath mass of bricks and
t'mbers from the roof. Another tree
that fell In the back yard of the
property at 162 West Sixth street.
Mount Vernon, killed Concetto Cafa-
valo and his son Anthony, 10, and
another tree, blown down near Lo-
Gust Valley, l.. l., crashed into an
automobile, killing Harry Halleran,
81. of Oyster Bay.
Mrs. Concetta Pascava,o, 40, OF 162
West Sixth street. Mount Vernon, and
her six-monthe-old son Anthony were
killed in the back yard at their home
when a large oak tree was broken Off
at the roots and thrown on top OF
them. The woman was two blocks
away from her home vixen the storm
broke. She caught her baby in her
yard. which is on the boundary be-
tween The Bronx and Mount Vernon,
the tree fell upon her. She and the
baby were pinned to the ground. They
were taken out by the police OF TIE
Fifty-sixth precinct, The Bronx. and
later removed to the Mount Vernon
morgue.
Wires were torn down through the
metropolitan district and at Newark
two men were killed by picking up
live wires left on the street after the
storm. One man grabbed a wire VI
save his two-year-old son, who was
about to touch Il. and was electro
cuted.
Lightning struck two barns owned
by Adam Kline. on the Black Stump
road, Flushing. Ten horses were
burned TO death wien the building
took fire and spread to the second
barn. The loss is estimated at about
$40 900.
Mrs. Hilda NJ. Dunlan. so, of 7G
Edison avenue. The Bronx. was in l'l
bungalow at that address when tho
storm broke. The house was over
turned and she was buried in the
vreckage. Neighbors went to her as
sistance and dragged her from the
ruins. She was attended by DR.. Kap-
Ian OF Lincoln Hospital for lacera-
tions contusions and shock and taken
to TIE homo of relatives.
Ferris wheel Accident.
The most serious accident OF the
storm was the collapse Of the Ferris
wheel at the Bronx Amusement Park.
For this the owner of the wheeLsPaul