New-York tribune., 1922-01-12
.eatll-Dealine
Storm Holds
City in Grip

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hHaor in front of the City Hall into the
stree.
Nightfall brought an unusually high
tide, which washed away about twenty
sumner structures at Conev Island
Sumrn ~ bungalows at Staten Island
beaches were inundated, but up to
late our, none had heen borne away.
Sew small boats along the Staten
Isla shore and at Sheepshead Bay
wei orn from Their moorings. but
me- II them were recovered. Boats
in .aca Bay also suffered during
the 'rnl.
Child Killed by Branch
J child who was killed was Anna
La :, fourteen years old. She lived
at tn Street and Yonkers Avenue.
the oNx. and was walking through
23o, street when wind borne branch
struc her on the head
TX wagon was blown over Mt
Six Axth Street and Fifth Avenue
sbon' noon. falling on its driver. Mark
Kay, 81 East 1lOth Street. He was
sever ly bruised AID was taken to to
Belle &c Hospital.
A IS. de Cordova, who lives at the
Hote' Marie Antoinette, was flung
agai st the wall of building at
Br' .dway and Sevorty-third Street by
e wind, bruising her face. Tom
cen, Of 25S West Scventy-third
rect, was hurled against a station
.ry taNicab at the same corner and
his Skull is believed to have been
,ractutod. lie was taken to knicker-
booker Hospital
The Park Place corner Of the Wool
worth Building was one OF the susti
est in the city. Person after person
was blown Fat as he rounded the cor
ner or sent scurrying off willy-nilly
before the gale. Finally the police
strung guard ropes there for storm
oeaten pedestrians to clutch as thcy
founded the Horn
Subway and elevated trains were not
Seceed materially by the storm The
~ had not got good start until
rs were running with rush hour
uencv, and the numerous trains
the rails clear. Surface cars
" ham0ered by the automobiles and
" ons which kept doegcdlv to tho
tlT ks the companies had cleared.
M some parts of Brooklyn uprooted
tres stalled trolley cars. In the sec
ito os tho borough where overhead
wires arc strung numerous poles were
paltlv uprooted bN the wind. and the
polcc notified the Brooklyn Edison
COMPANY of the situation.
briSh tNlmncN I2llS
Jas before noon Il brick chimney on
nowerhouse of the Bush Terminal
Warehouse system at Fortieth Street
and Second Avenue. Brooklyn. was
blow fiat by the wind. The chimney
rell on tho roof Of tie powerhouse
few Of the bricks reaching tho streets
and none hitting anybody
SiN telephone poles were blown
down n tho Fort Hamilton and Bay
Raes sec1ons, ane u pole which
crashed ~ the street at Sixth Avenue
and fifty-6rst street barely missed y
s4oun of school children.
\ falling pole IN Aweruc Queens,
= brought Down several Wires, causing
short circuits. winch started fire in
the home Of Bon Uabermau, I'll Reach
Seventy seventh Street. The fire caused
iiitls damage. Numerous poles and
trees were 1cllod throughout Queens.
Staten Island was swept by waves
and unusually high tides from Clifton
to New Brighton and rom Fort Nads
voYth to Tottenvllle a feed cable
wire of.tne Rich nond Light and Rail
road Company was brought down by
the gale. ietorruptinS trolley service
betwecn New Brighton and Holland
Hook for rlore than an hour. The mu
nlcipa, tractoss trolley line from View
Hospital to J.inoleumville was put out
ri husnesS as was tho city's one-man
tar line between st. George and Silver
Lake
TIE broas Pat cut the lights in the
ber.y motion picture thcater in Sta
| 7ie.on, one of the largest in Staten
| sland. causing some excitement among
! he spectator
! Lodging Houses Filled
Five hundred men and twenty-four
omen applied for shelter at the MUM
pal Lodging House. One of the women
I'd three children with her. Private in
itutons Of similar nature we're
'owded
Telegrapl. and telephone wires suf-
u lreC in the storm over large stretches
I New Jersey, as did high tension
/ We conveying power TO various
pnts. In South tmboy the main iced
We of tho Jersey Central Traction
o'pany was blown down. causing q
'Je which hu.ned out tho second floor
n Ne yardmasters building of the
fenhlylvahia Railroad destroying val
"abla records
Gsree olive, chief electrician,
sac 10 his lob of repairing broken
9Yetome by smoke. Firemen carried
A'mout unconscious. Russell Baker,
sssl.ant Nardma ster, was hit by a fall
oi tmber and slightly injured.
~oman who had been blown down
ooy the wind was found unconscious at
twenty seventh Street and First Ave
rue and was taken to Bellevue Hos
pltal where she is awaiting identi-
fcation.
Gus Ammundsen, of 22l Fifth Street,
Jersey city, fell while cleaning snow