The New York herald., 1922-06-12

yards from the fleet of the New York
| Motorboat Club, at 147th street, was
| torn loose from her moorings. The gale
that accompanied the rain swept ner
into the motorboat Casino. causing DAM
| age to both craft.
Another vessel dragged al her ancher
and smashed the glass of the cabin on
the Buddy. owned by Gapr. Henry Brew
ster. member of the club Attendants OF
the club put out in motorboats and Sc
cured the vessels that had been sent
adrift by the storm.
Mrs. Henry Walton, her husbands two
children, Frederick and Anna Grant, and
| their chum. Edward Taylor. We're nearly
drowned when the storm capsized their
rowb in Pelham Bay. They We're res
cued by members Of the Harlem Yacht
Club on City Island.
The four had left their pleasure boat
Lorna Doone, and were heading for the
Morris Yacht Club. OF which Mr.. Walton
is member, when the wind drove them
back to the opposite shore. The row
boat was capsized q few feet before II
! was reached and the swimmers were
helped ashore by several men.
Mr.. Walton and his family live al
! Crotona avenue and 1S0th street. The
Bronx.
The ferryboat Hildegard. which runs
between Interstate Park on the Jersey
eide and 15sth street on the Manhattan
side. and which is privately owned by
Mrs. H. j. Grady Of 2153 Amsterdam
avenue. was caugh. In midstream, and
one of the lifeboats. torn from Its
fastenings during a violent lurch. fell
to the deck below. injuring a man and
! two boys.
The injured we're: Morris Lowenthal
| 2S. OF SOS West 162d street: Edward
povesch. 16. or 212 East Seventy fifth
street. who was lacerated about the
left arm, and Sidney Jacobs. IA. OF 216
East Seventy y-hfth street. who was cut
about the right eye and hands. The
at l63d street.
Two Men Killed by Wires.
Besides killing two men in Newark
the storm blew down wires and uprooted
/ trees In all sections. making many
streets impossible and crushing roofs in
their fall.
| A turret on the roof of ST. Patricls's
Cathedral there was blown away at the
height OF the gale and skylights in nu-
merous Office buildings were torn of or
smashed by the hailstones. Lincoln
| Park and Military Park. In the center
of the city, are cluttered with fallen
| trees.
Lightning struck the roof Of st. Peters
/ Parochial School, Belleville, doing con-
siderable damage. but injuring no one.
Here. also, the wind uprooted trees. in
one place two automobiles being buried
beneath a mass of foliage. Roofs of
several houses in East Orange were
struck by falling trees.
| The roof of house was blown away
| n mr. CT hui taa OF Of
l25 feet away.
So numerous were the fallen live wires
there that f1remen and policemen were
detailed to guard each one.
In the height of the storm lightning
struck the resistance box under a Ber-
gen Beach shuttle car of the B. r. T..
setting the car afire and causing the
forty-five passengers to flee panic
stricken out into the rain. The flames
were quickly extinguished with sand by
the motorman. No one was hurt
| Traffic on many surface lines in
Brooklyn was blocked by trees and poles
| blown across the tracks. At 8 O'Clock
last night Joseph Covert, general fore
man Of the Highway Department. said
he had received reports of eighty-three
trees uprooted in Brooklyn and he an
| ticipated receiving many additional re-
| ports.
4TdIilC on IdteS avenue was delayed
| for. an hour and half when a pole of
the Brooklyn Edison Company fell across
the tracks between Bushwick and Ever
green avenues. A fallen tree at DeKalb
and Vanderbilt avenues blocked cars for
an hour and the Jamaica line was tied
up FOR a similar length of time by a
fallen tree in Highland Place. A tree
at Halsey street and Reid avenue broke
the trolley wire and caused delay OF
half an hour.
| Both the Interborough and the Brook
| lyn Rapid Transit companies reported
no trouble had been experienced with the
elevated or subway lines either in Brook
lyn or Manhattan. All trains ran with
out delay.
The Brooklyn Edison Company was
without current for a short time when
some Of its electric current poles were
blown down.
| When lightning struck flag pole on
Brooklyn Fire Headquarters, at 367 Jay
street, an alarm was automatically set
off, causing the hremen to turn out to
tight fire that was supposed to be
| burning In their own headquarters. 1t
was found there was no fire.
Damage I'm the Oranges.
The four Oranges all were hard hit.
with trees and wires down. Car service
was tied up for many hours, due to
the crippling of power. and electric
lights were shut off in many homes for
the night.
! The downpour centering around the
Orange Mountains drenched the COM
munities for more than an hour 1t
was estimated that at least two hundred
trees had fallen in the gale
Charles w. Luhr, superintendent OF
the Edison Phonograph Works, whose
home is at 81 South Valley road. West
| Orange. was motoring with his wife.
Catherine, and their sons, John, Joseph,
and Charles Jr., on Valley road near
Ludington road, when a large elm was
blown down and fell across the auto
mobile. Mrs. Luhr. the only one in
1ured, Is thought TO have sustained
fractures OF two ribs. Sc was taken
to st. Mary's Hospital.
The streets and roads were crowded
with vehicles when the storm broke and
the result was that many Of them were
caught under falling trees. But In many
instances the cars had been deserted
before the trees fell on them, because
! the downpour was so heavy that their
occupants left the machines and sought
the shelter OF homes. churches and bust
ness houses.
Untermyer Greenhouse Wreck.
AT Yonkers. along North Broadway.
! twentw trees were uprooted and
knocked across the roadway tying up
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