New-York tribune., 1922-06-12
Panics Started, Roofs Are
Torn Of and Panes Are
Broken by Gale in Up
per Part Of Manhattan
8 Bodies Washed
Up at City Island
Falling Trees Take Lives
of 7 and Forty Are Cut
by Fragments of Glass

A storm Of intense feroeity broks
out Of the ragged mass Of black
clouds that began 10 tower above tho
Palisades late yesterday afternoon
and swept across the northern part
Of the city and adjacent suburbs.
At least thirty were lost ard
about one hundred persons were in
jured. Windows were shattered By
the wind squalls. Houses were un-
rooted. Plaster was Jared from
walls and ceilings. Trees we're up
rooted by hundreds, some Of them
falling across railroad or trolley
tracks. Crowded amusement resorts
we're thrown into panic.
Pelham Bay was alive with pies
ure craft when the squsll hit Il.
ozeDns Of rowboats and saiiboats
were cspsized. The bodies Of eight
persons drowned were washed up
after the storm and sixteen more
we're reported missing by their rels-
tives.
Five persons were killed and
twenty-six injured when a Ferris
wheel was blown over az Clsson
Point Park in the Bronx. Two we're
killed when a tree crashed into the
dining room Of the Red Lion Inn. on
the Boston Post Road, IN Mamaro-
neck. Two more were killed by a
falling tree in Mount Vernon. 0ns
was drowned in 0ssining, one IN
Long Island Sound and one in tho
East Rivsr.
Near Piping Sssk -ae
Island an automobile Gas crushed By
a tree that killed one Of is occupants
and injured three. Two more were
killed By a falling tree at Mundy's
Lane and Pitman Avenue, the Bronx
Two who came in contact with live
wires in Newark were killed. mar
in New Rochelle died from heart dis
ease resulting from oyer-eXertion in
rowing his family 10 shore bofere ths
storm broke.
Old Tree Uprooted
Ten persons were injured By life
boat which the wind tore from its
dayits on a Dyckman Street ferry
boat and sent tumbling 20 the lower
deck. Forty we're slightly cut by flying
splinters Of glass when a sudden burst
OF wind shattered most OF the windows
on the south and west sides Of an
apartment house at 1860 University
Avenue, the Bronx.
The storm was one OF the shortest
as we'll as one OF the deadliest that
eer struck the city. The Weather
Bureau reported that IL lasted at full
strength only FIVE minutes. The yelo-
city Of the wind was 72 miles an hour
during most OF the storm, but ore
gust hit an S6-mile clip. The mercury
dropped SO to 81. During the Ave
minutes peak Of the squall seven one
hundredths Of an inch Of rain fell.
From Washington Heights the storm
cut a swath several miles wide across
the city and lis northern cnyirons.
Fordham Heights was devastated. Trees
along Broadway were uprooted from
Dyckman Street 70 Getty Square, Yonk-
ers, among them a giant Just south Of
the city line. the age Of which had
been estimated by experts at 275 years.
Trees crashed down across Broadway
trolley tracks and across the tracks %
the Harlem Division at the Fordham
station, halting traffic for some tins
until wrecking crews could chop a pas
sage for cars and trains.
Autos Are Upset
The sand dock at the High Bridge
station, at 10th Street and the Harlen
River, was struck by gghtning and
burned.
Motorists found IL impossible 10
steer where the highway was exposed
10 the sweep Of the wind and aban.
doned their cars by the score and
sought shelter where they might. Sew
eral cars were upset by the wind or
driven into the path Of other vehicles,
Abandoned automobiles added 10 the
congestion which tied up the Van Cort-
landt Park terminal OF the subway
when the storm broke. The cars, whose
owners had decided 10 keep on their
way, were forced into a narrow chyse
In the center OF the street. Across
the thoroughfare surged thousands OF
men, women and children, blinded BY
rain, terrified by the violence OF the
storm and intent upon reaching the
subway station.
The two patrolmen on duty thers
found themselves almost powerless in
the rush. II was impossible to check
the throng which poured out OF Van
Cortlandt Park or TO halt the stream
Of automobiles which raced down from
the north.
Women Hysterieal
Several mounted policemen we're
reached by signal boxes and sent on .
gallop TO their aid They found the
street choked by a milling mob. Stair
ways leading 20 the platforms Of the
subway station were filed from rail
to rail and from platform 10 sidewalk.
Women were shrieking and children
crying. The street was Uttered with
the debris Of the struggle. Hats, caps.
umbrellas and furs were trampled into
the mire. Several women became hys-
terical and we're assisted into lunch
rooms in the vicinity, where they re-
ceiyed first aid treatment.
Historic Relies Damaged
II was not until sufficient policemen
arrived 20 force the throng into long
lines at each stairway that some
.orn hlanca ~ ordsr WAS ohtained Tha