The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-06-12
MANY PLEASURE PARTIES ARE
RUTHLESSLY BROKEN UP AS Il
RESULT OF ELECTRICAL STORM
Fury Of the Elements Upr0Ot
Trees, Blow Over Houses
and Sink Craft at Sea.
LIGHTNING STRIKES A
BROOKLYN TROLLEY CAR
Passengers Are Thrown to the
Floor and Stunned-Ten
Horses Burned to Death.
lRv The AaseeIatsd Pra,.l

NEW YORK, June ia violent
storm accompanied by shifting winds
that reached velocity OF ss miles an
hour took the lives OF more than so
persons. injured more than than a
hundred and caused enormous proper
~ damage in the metropolitan section
late today.
Forty persons were reported to have
lost their lives while boating in Long
Island Sound, and many persons were
killed by falling trees, lightning and
accidents caused by the wind. Ten
bodies of the drowned have been re-
covered. and the waters about New
York are being seached tonight for
thirty missing.
The storm came at the close of one
OF the most torrid days OF the season,
the wind coming gently from the south
and southwest, shiften suddenly into
the northwest an dincreased In We
locity to eighty-eight miles, and
sweeping through New Jersey, Vest
chester county, across the city island.
the Bronx and Manhattan, left death
and destruction in its wake
Torrential rains. then lightning, fol-
lowed the wind.
Hundreds Of thousands OF New York
people were on the beaches and at
various outlying resorts seeking re-
lief from the heat, when the storm
broke, and II was from these that the
storm took it's death tolls.
Five persons were killed and more
than forty hurt when the wind caught
huge ferris wheel at the Clason
Point amusement park and 1t crashed
10 the ground.
A woman and her seven -year-old
daughter were crushed to death and
several other persons injured when an
oak tree blown by the wind crashed
through the roof to the crowded din
Ing room of the Red Lion Inn, on Bos-
ton Post road, carrying with 1t an old
fashioned stone chimney.
The bodies of seven canoeists caught
in Long Island Sound off City Island
at the height of the storm were
washed ashore after nightfall
Miss Edda Smith, IL, walking with
n companion along the reservoir road
at ossington was blown into the wa
ter and drowned.
Charles Emerson, New Rochelle
clothing manufactures, was rowing in
Echo Bay with his wife and three
children when the storm broke. He
managed TO row to shore, then died
from a heart attack.
A tree fell across a party OF motor
lists seeking shelter on the Brookville
road near Loout Valley, Long Island,
killing Harry Halloran of Oyster Bay.
and seriously injuring his three male
companions.
Unable to reach shore in the stiff
wind Jack Lowenthal, 20 was drowned
while swimming IN East River.
Concetti Basiatao and his ten-year-
old son, Anthony of Mount Vernon,
wera killed when q tree under which
Nkey had found shelter in the Bronx,
was struck BY lightning. Two men
were killed in Newark, n. j., when
they came IN contact with electric
wires torn down by the wind.
A massive, decayed tree on the New
Wcrk westchester county line at
Afeunt Vernon fell crushing to death
Mrs Cassie Cavavallo' and her infant
son.
Moe Rusllin. one OF a party OF ca
noeists In Reho Bay was drowned.
Three other members OF the party
sized.
Ten excurslonists on the ferryboat
Mildegrade, returning from Interstate
Park, y. " 10 west 15Sth street, We're
injured when the wind tor life boat
from it's davits In falling the boat
struck the railing OF the lower deck
at a spot where about dozen pas
sengers had gathered for shelter, then
It slid into the river and disappeared,
Sidney Jacob. IA. was badly hurt, and
was taken TO a hospital Other in
jured were able to go to their homes.
Extensive property damage from
wind and lightning was reported from
all boroughs OF the city, and outlying
districts.
Central Park suffered heavily, doz-
ems Of trees having been uprooted and
hurled across the driveways blocking
automobile traffic.
Lightning struck a Brooklyn troll
Icy car and half = dozen passengers
we're stunned and thrown to the floor.