The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-06-12
Storm and Tragedy Takes Heavy Death
 Toll; Millions Lost
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 ground. a tangled skein of steel Dozens were buried in the wreck six bodies were later taken out. and more tnan two scores were attended by an- pulance surgeons. A seventh victim diea this m orning.
 Early this morning the Hudson had risen three feet at Albany.
 Traffic officials of the New York Central said the trains had not re- stunned their regular schedules on the main line running through the storm belt and that the branch lines would not be back to normal for at least S4 hours.
 The New York, Ontario and Wes- tern railroad near Oneida was the har2est hit of the branch lines, the places, marooning a repair train that had been sent out and a milk train. Oneida was practically all under water late last night with police pa trolling the streets in rowboats. Heavy damage also was inflicted at Canastota, Ilion, Frankfort and Her kimer where the rising Mohawk had flooded the streets, washed away small buildings, and garages and cov- cred all with a layer of mud. At New Berlin 3.3 inches of rain fell in an hour. wrecking small bridges and. undermining roa dways.
 knoMn aIean saa N one Y s}ng 5Hns soores aaTmo in Jured and probably two million dol lars worth of damage was the toll of the severe series of electrical storms, cloud bursts and hurricanes that swept. over northern and central New York yesterday. Flood conditions prevail through the Mohawk and Hudson valleys and railroad traffic on small branch lines was crippled at an early hour this morning. In Syracuse the business and resi- dental sections are covered with from six inches to a foot of water. A t1.ai in was marooned in the lowlandS near Syracuse under the Erie canal. at the height of the storm and the cars flooded. Passengers were rescued by firemen-
 In Hudson and Athens. the wind tors roofs off houses, destroyed crops. and levelled telegraph lines. Vir- tually the entire fruit crop in this trees in the state, was destroyed. Two barns hodsing live stock and farm
 machtGery, were lifted off their foun- datioNs at Athens and carried hun dre6fs of feet into nearby fields.
 Boston, June 12.-A survey today df the damage wrought by the tenn pest which swept greater Boston and other parts of New England yester- day indicated that the property dam age might amount to $1,000.O00. One man, G. H. Spaulding of Brockton, was killed at Scituate by falling tree. Injuries numbered scores. Out of a mild rain the tempest came. and, in a period of ten min utes, this city experienced a down pour, the darkness of night in mid Iafternoon, a wind that reached a ve- locity of 40 miles an hour, hail stones as big as eggs and golf balls, that pelted against windows and growing vegetable crops to damage both, lightning that set fire to buildings, and water spouts that raced across the bay. Debris blocked street car and vehicular traffic in some places for hours afterward.
 Telephone and telegraph poles went down in numbers.
 A cottage at King Cove, North storm and carried through the air for a hundred fleet. Roofs of a doz- en other houses in that district were ripped off.
 persons who went out fishing on Long Island Sound Saturday night and yes terday were reported missing to the police today. The number actually surpassed to be missing is not deter mined. Apparently, it is eight. but actually it may be much less as mem bers of families and friends lacked exact knowledge of the boats the fishermen were in.
 Up till noon the police had been told that a man named Lawson Of College streeet and d Frank Smith of Grand avenue, who went out in a boat Saturday night have not return Cd. Four men who went out In one boat are stiM supp osed to be missing, and men named Vdckery and Swartz have not returned home.
 Columbus, O., June 12-Buckeye Lake Park, was searched today TOT bodies of persons said to have buried in debris in a tornado which struck the park yesterday, resulting in the death of three people. Seven small boats were missing today.