The New York herald., 1922-09-07
Wild GALE ON SOUND
BRUSHES PAST CITY
Sweeps Towns i'm Connecti-
cut, Wrecking Light
and Car Systems.
HUNT FOR LOST BOATS
Four From Stamford Re-
turn After Storms Fury
Subsidies.
LIGHTNING HITS BARNS
Street Cars Crash i'm Madison
Ave. and Accident Is Blamed
on Wet Rails.
LIGHTNING HITS BARNS

A rainstorm accompanied by gales
of wind caused damage yesterday in
many towns along the Connecticut
shore front and endangered the safety
Of many craft on Long Island Sound.
A party of four men from Stamford
including Arthur Halter and Herbert
Hull were lost during the storm. but
made shore late at night.
The electric transmission systems in
Greenwich. Cos Cob and Stamford were
put out of commission and for a time
the towns were darkened and out of
communication with the outside world
Street railway traffic was crippled and
many trees blown down. In Stam-
ford a house owned by Mrs. Kate
Graham was blown over and the roads
were blocked by fallen trees.
Hail fell at Sound Beach and at
Shippan Point. damaging gardens and
making it unsafe to venture forth at the
height of the storm.
pergola weighing three tons was
swept from its concrete moorings on the
estate of Fl. Is. Dalton at Shippan Point
and carried into the yard of neighbor
Apprehension was felt for many
canoeists who were known to be on the
Sound shortly before the storm came up
with little forewarning. No loss OF life
has yet been reported, but volunteer
parties have been made UP to search tie
waters tor capsized craft.
Lightning Hits Barns.
Vivid flashes OF lightning accompanied
the storm. and numerous fires started.
Walter and Horace Smith. farmers Of
Greenwich, Conn, had a narrow escape
when lightning struck a barn in which
they had taken refuge. The frame struc-
ture caught on fire and a horse and fifty
tons OF hay were burned. Another barn
at Brandford. Conn. was struck and
some hay destroyed.
The storm was part OF that which
swept New York about eight o'clock,
doing little material damage, but break
Ing the hot spell under which the city
had sweltered all day. Small craft In
the vicinity of City Island were reported
accounted for. having ample warning by
threatening clouds of tho approach OF
the storm.
Throughout Connecticut reports came
of the ruin caused by the storm In over
turned buildings, fallen trees and general
crippling of the electric light and trolley
systems.
Two dozen spring chickens owned by
Gilbert Dalton. a New York manufac-
turer. were pelted to death by hailstones
as they stood in crates ready for ship
ment from Sound Beach.
Wet Rails Cause Crash.
Two trolley cars crashed at Madison
avenue and 10th street and several per-
sons sustained minor injuries. inflicted
principally by glass that showered on
them from shattered windows and vesti
bules. A Lexington-Lenox avenue car
was crossing 116th street at Madison
against its rear. Albert Schnell Of Fort
Lee. y. j.. the motorman of the cross
town car. said the wreck was due to the
slippery condition of the rails following
the storm.
The vestibules of the two cars which
were in contact were battered in and
the glass torn from them and several
windows of both were broken. The In
jured were Bernard Cohen. 50, of $40
East 102d street; Fanny Jaskowitz. 20,
of "a West 117th street. Mary Lamonto,
36. of 1868 Tiffany street. The Bronx ;
Ella Scholar, 30. OF 80 West 136th street !:
La Belle Lancaster, %. a negress, OF
| 13l West 131st street. and Albert Boy
ton. &c, a negro. Of 2465 Seventh avenue.
All went home after the accident.