Evening star., 1922-06-12
HURRICANE DEATH
TOLL LEAPS TO
60 IN NEW YORK
18 More Bodies Swept
Ashore Today by In
coming Tide.
HYSTERICAL RELATIVES
KEEP ALL NIGHT VIGIL
Beach Resort Hardest Hit; Ferris
Wheel Loaded With Children
Crushed by Wind.
By the Assoc,a ted Press.

NEW YORK, June 12.-The death
toll of the brief but terrific hurri-
cane that swooped down on the
metropolitan area late yesterday
passed the sixty mark today. with
Indications that the total number Of
mead might go much higher.
The death list leaped ahead when
tn incoming tide returned eighteen
more bodies that had been swept out
TO sea last night Four more bodies
were recovered at Hunters island and
two We're reported to have been
picked up at Travers Island.
City Island-haven for Sunday
pleasure-seekers and amateur fisher
7nen-was the hardest-hit point in the
metropolitan area, but casualties,
mostly by drowning. were reported
from many other points. The beach
at City Island today presented DESC
late spectacle. Several hundred persons
relatives of the missing-worn by
hysteria, waited in little groups
among the wreckage on the sand for
some word of the fate of their loved
ones. Marine squad police. exhausted
by their all-night vigil, continued
out for additional bodies.
40 Boats Missing.
The full toll of the storm may not
be known for days. The crowds that
thronged City Island yesterday were
drawn from all parts of the metro
politan district and probably num-
bered many persons from distant
points. who had gone to the island
10 escape the broiling heat of a Sun
day in New York.
The list of missing. being compiled
at the police bureau of missing per-
sons grew steadily.
BY noon fourteen persons had been
listed as missing. Police said many
others probably We're missing who
lad not been reported
Boat men at City Island said there
were forty-six small boats as yet un-
accounted for. Occupants of many
cf these undoubtedly were sayed by
United States coast guards and by
members of yacht clubs about the
island. who put out as soon as the
terrific blow had subSided. But the
police believe many more were lost.
There were at least ESQ small boats
and canoes out when the squall
struck
More Than 100 Hurt.
More than 100 were injured in the
tempest. which roared out of the hills
of northern New Jersey, beat the
Hudson In foam capped breakers,
swept across New York city and then
seemed to center it's wild energy on
City Island and its vicinity.
Thousands of rowboats and
Island just before the breaking of
the storm; when 1t had passed, the
water was strewn with overturned
craft, and the buildings on shore re-
Mans Land. Many parties hurrying
for safety saw people struggling in
the water, but dared not stop for
fear of capsizing their own craft. The
rescue work started Immediately, but
darkness and the panic-stric
crowds hindered the labors of the
volunteer life-savers.
Damage Totals 81 .OOO, 900.
Property damage estimated at from
s1,o0o,000 to several times that
amount was done by the tornado.
The storm followed day Of intense
heat and was as sudden as it was
violent. Low hanging clouds across
the Hudson river were observed, but
they seemed to be far away, and dam
ger unforeseen. Then, like magic. the
western heavens took on a sinister
aspect, the clouds seemed to dip to-
ward the earth. and before the fright
ened people exposed to the elements,
could reach places of safety the
wind came.
Clasons Point. a recreation place
near City Island. was in the direct
path of the hurricane. A Ferris
wheel. heavily freighted with chill
dren and young people, had just be-
gun to revolve with its passengers
,,,Ir Il
was the transition from a bright
June sky to inky clouds that the men
in charge of the wheel could not stop
il and discharge the persons in the
cars before the top of the wheel was
torn away and the remainder crash
ed to the ground. a tangled skein of
steel Dozens were buried in the
wreck. Six bodies were later taken
out and more than two score were
attended by ambulance surgeons A
seventh victim died this morning.
Frail Buildings Crushed.
Frail buildings were crushed by the
| mighty weight of the wind; electric
| light wires were torn away, and In
| the darkness and torrential rain the
rcscuers could do little until the
storm had subsidized. Hysterical men
and women, tearing blndly at the
vreckage, hindered rather than help
ed the workers engaged in lifting the
ruins of the wheel Police reserves
numbering 200 were rushed to the
scene and they restored order. b.
The gale. which swept across the
entire metropolitan district. was ac-
,oinpanied by rain. which stung like
:. lash from the force of the wind.
Huge trees in Central Park were up
rooted and tossed across the drive
ways. Five people were hurt when
the wind blew out great plateglass
fronts of stores along Broadway and
scattered haberdashery and clothing
along the street
In Brooklyn lightning struck a
street car and knocked six passen-
gers unconscious. Electric signs
along the white way seemed spe-
cial targets of the cyclonic wind. A
huge sign extolling the virtues of
an automobile tire. was torn loose
from it's moorings, toppled over onto
"a skyiight, carried smaller sign
with it. in its plunge and started a
fire from disconnected wiring. The
force of the crash set off an auto
matic burglar alarm and fire alarm.
thousands in Boats Hit by Storm.
Twenty Thousand holiday makers
went to City Island yesterday and