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OVER SO DEAD IN
NEW YORK STORM
Eighteen Bodies Brought to
Shore by Tide.
STILL SEARCHING FOR BODIES
Fourteen Persons Reported Missing
and 46 Small Boats Unaccounted
For at Coney Island.

New York. June l3.-The death toll
of HE brief but terrific hurricane that
Swooped down on the Metropolitan
area passed The sixty mark, with indl-
cations The Total of dead might go
much higher
The death list leaped when an i'll
coming hide in Long Island sound re-
turned eighteen more bodies that had
been swept out TO sea. Four more
bodies were recovered at Hunters Is
land and two We're reported /" have
been picked up at Traver> Island.
City ISland-haven for sunday plea
sure seekers and amateur tiSherluen--
WAS he hardest hit point, but casual
lies. mostly by drowning. We're report
ed from many other points
Tie beach at City Island presented
Il ,lr>olate spectacle. Several hundred
PERSONS relatives of the missing
worn 10y hysreria. waited III little
groups among the Wreckage on the
sand for some word Of HE fare of
their loved ones Marine squad police,
exhausted by their all night vigil. con
tinued their cruise, Keeping sharp
lookout for additional bodies.
The full ROLL of the storm may not
be known for days The crowds that
thronged City Island sunday were
drawn from all parts of the metropolis
tan district and probably numbered
many persons from distant points. The
liSi of missing. being compiled 1T the
police bureau of missing persons, grew
steadily. Fourteen persons had been
listed as missing. Police said many
others were missing who had not been
reported.
Boatmen al City Island said there
we're forty-siX small boats a< yet I'M
accounted for Occupants of many "f
these undoubtedly were saved by init
ed S,ates coast guards and by meni-
beers of yacht clubs who put out rs
soon as the blow had subsidized. But
the police believe many more were
lost. There We're at least 30 small
boats and canoes out when the squat
struck.
Ten bodies had been recovered dur
ing the night.
Next To the tragedy At City Island
the most serious result of the storm
was The wrecking of a ferris wheel al
CIasson Point Park in the Bronx. SeV'
en- merrymakerS were killed and near.
" thirty injured when the wind tore
the wheel from its base and hurried
ii a twisted mass of wreckage, on the
beach of Long Island sound. Paul
Simon. owner Of the wheel. was ar
rested on charge of homicide anu
two Investigations were gotten under
way TO Fix the responsibility.
The Hudson and Harlem rivers
claimed their tell Of canoe and small
boat victims also. While six persons
were killed by the fall Of trees up
rooted by the gale. All the damage
was wrought in less than Il quarter
of an hour.
Upward of 100 We're injured in the
tempest. which rOared out of the hills
of Northern New Jersey. beat the
Hudson in foam-c; pped breakers
swept across New York and then
seemed 10 center its wild energy Oh
CRY Island and its vicinity.
Thousands of r0whoatS and Launches
dotted The sound off City Island just
before the breaking Of The Storm
when il had passed The water was
strewn with overturned craft. and the
buildings on shore resemhied il battle
torn village in No Mans Land. Many
parties, hurrying for safely saw PEG
pie struggling in the water, but daret
no! stop for fear of capsizng lheil
own craft. The rescue work started
Immediately, but darkness nd the
panic stricken crowds hindered The
labors of the volunteer life savers.
Property damage estimated at from
| s., 600. 600 oseveral times that amour
WAS done by the tornado.