The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1922-06-14
TOrrential Rains, Lightning and 49,
Mile Gale Take Toll Of Over so
Known Dead and 100 Injured. Res.
cuers Searching Waters OF New
York for Further Victims.

accompanied by shifting winds that
reached a velocity OF SS miles an hour,
took the lives Of more than so per-
sons, injured more than 100 and
caused enormous property 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 searched tonight for 80
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, shifted suddenly
in the northwest and increased in We
locity. to eighty-eight miles, and sweep
ing through New Jersey, West Chester
county, across the City Island, The
Bronx and Manhattan, left death and
destruction in it's wake.
Torrential rains, then lightning,
followed the wind. Hundreds Of
thousands of New Workers were on
the beaches and the various outlying
resorts seeking relief from the heat
when the storm broke, and it was
from these that the storm took its
death toll.
Six persons were killed and more
than forty hurt when the wind
caught huge ferris wheel at the
Hlason Point amusement park and
it crashed to the ground.
woman and her seven year old
daughter were crushed to death and
several other persons injured when
an oak tree blown by the wind crash
ed through the roof of the crowded
dining room of the Red Lion Inn, on
Be ston Post road, carrying with it an
old-fashioned stone chimney.
The bodies of seven canoests
caught in Long Island Sound off City
Island at the height Of the storm were
washed ashore after nightfall.
Miss Edna Smith, II, walking
with companion along the reservoir
road at Cssining was blown into the
water and drowned.
Charles Emerson, New Rochelle
clothing manufacturer, was rowing in
Echo Bay with his wife and three
children when the storm broke. He
managed to row to shore, then died
from heart attack.
tree fell across party of
motorists seeking shelter on the
Brookville road, near Locust Valley,
Long Island, killing Harry Halloran,
of Oyster Bay, and seriously njur-
ing his three male comIurions.
Unable to reach shore in the stiff
wind, Jack Lowncmbal, 20, was
drowned while swimming in East
river.
Concentti Basia.oi end his ten year
were killed when tree under which
thoy Lad found shelter in The Bronx
was struck by lightning.
Two men were killed in Newark, n.
j., when they came in contact with
electric wire torn down by the winnd.
"A Hiaoolfe, ucCuycu Tree on the New
York West Chester county line at
Mount Vernon fell, crushing to death
Mrs, Cassie Cavallo and her infant
son. >;
M. 0. Erskinc Of party Of ca
noeists in Reh bay was drowned.
Three others. members Of the party,
swan to shore after the canoe cap
I sized.
/ Ten excursionists on the ferry boat
% Mildegrad, returning from Interstate
Park, N. j., to West 15Sth street, were
3 injured when the wind tore life boat
from Its davies. In falling the boat
/ struck the railing Of the lower deck
at spot where about a dozen pas
sengers had gathered for shelter, then
it slid into the river and disappeared.
Sidney Jacob, a., was badly hurt and
j was taken to a hospital. Others in
u jured were able to go to their homes.
q Extensive property damage from
wind and'lightning was reported from
& all borodghs OF the city, and outlying
8distrcts.f| ~"
4 Central Park suffered heavily, doz-
n ems of trees'having been uprooted ana
q hurled across the G..ycways D!oc;:.-.1
y tramc. .Aj
Il lightning struck Brooklyn troll
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