The Washington herald., 1922-06-12
Several Bathers Meet
Death in Sudden
Tempest.
TELEGRAPH POLES
AND TREES RAZED
Lightning Strikes Auto in
Herald Square-Wind
Plays Havoc i'm Hotel.


lives were lost and more than a
hundred injured in q severe cleo
tricsl storm that swept New York
city and the metropolitan district
today.
In Clason Point Park on the
Bronx shore of Long Island Sound.
Ferris wheel 10 feet in diameter
was blown down. killing five Of
it's passengers and injuring fifty.
Thtrty-etght persons are believed
70 have been drowned in Pelham
Bay off City Island when their
rowboats overturned The bodies
OF nine Of these victims had been
recovered by midnight.
Several bathers in the Clason Point
Point region were drowned.
Telegraphic and telephone COM
munications were interrupted for
several hours when the poles were
blown down by the storm.
Crawl Throush wreck.se.
The storm broke after the heat
had driven thousands 70 auusa-
ment parks. Clason Point Park
was jsmmed with a large festive
Sunday crowd. The Ferris wheel
was crowded with children.
So suddenly did the eIe, .ricai
storm break that the crew operat-
Ing the big wheel, 100 feet in diam
eter In which sixty people wee
r1oirg' were unable TO stop TIE ma
chine and allow the passengers TO
anght With a crash the wheel,
with IFS LOAD OF shriekinz men.
women and children, toppled II the
ground. part of it burying i,s-If
IN the water Of a bathing bcGch
nearly.
Crawling through the wrecks~e
while q deluee Of rain fell upon
them. the rescuers. led by park en-
ployes. carried the MANNED 70 a rec
reation pier fifty feet away. where
they were laid in rows, pending ar
rival OF physicians.
Ffve Ambulances Arrtvs.
Five ambulances quickly respond
ed. and in them as well as in COM
mandeered automobiles. the iajurei
were rushed to hospitals.
Deputy Police Chief Inspector
Dominick Henry and Districr At
torney Edward Glennon. Of T,ionx
County, were soon on the scene with
200 police reserves and took charge.
Several doctors and many priests
from the newly organized Catholic
church at Clason Point mini steref
to the injured As fast as thc in-
jured were attended thev were
rushed 10 hospitals by the anbu-
lances. which worked in relays
Police and fremen worked in the
ruins under a glare Of search
lights. hurrying lest some were
still alive.
DshtrInE Hit. Auto.
Several others are believed 70
have lost their lives when canoeists
and others seeking relief from the
oppressive heat OF the city were
caught far from a haven OF safety
by the terrific wind and rainfall and
lightning that struck Greater New
York and environs suddenly.
Plsteglass show windows and
window panes were smashed all
over Greater New York. Signs were
torn from their moorings and sent
on the breast of the wind. some
being carried for blocks
At Thirty-fourth street and Broad
way an automobile was struck by
lightning and set on IRE That Inn
portant center of the city was
clogged with fire apparatus which
answered the alarm.
schooner Turns over.
In the Pennsylvania Hotel the
wind seized the leaf of an open
revolving door, turned IL with a ter
rible bang as IL IL were the page
of book and smashed the quarter
inch glass to hundreds Of pieces.
The gale picked up the broken
particles and carried them with q
crash through the lobby and down
Q n. Nn1 - fre - ~
Automobiles left standing without
brakes applied were backed from
Eighth avenue through Thirty-th
street, a one-way thoroughfare. and
many handsome limousines suffered
dented tenders, leaking gas tanks
and damaged bodies through coll
lisions.
Mctker and DssshfeT Die
Mrs. Abram wrana. Is. and her
daughter. Rosslyn, Z. were killed
when lightning struck a tree at the
Red Lion Inn on the Poston Post
road near Mamaroneck. y. Y. The
tree carried down a huge brick
chimney with il, burying Mrs.
Wrans and her daughter under
bricks and mortar.
One barge on Long Island Sound
was overturned by the high waves
which the storm beat up. The nine
persons aboard were rescued by the
. crew of the Ferry Harlem. A
launch with four passengers was
cspsized. but all were rescued. One
skin was picked up empty. but with
hat and coat left in Il.
Wires were torn down through
the metropolitan district. and at
Newark, n. J., two men were killed
by picking UP live wires left on the
street after the storm. One man
grabbed a wire to save his 2-yesr-
old son who was about to touch IL
and was electrocuted.
New Jersey Towns Hit.
Injuries through storm accidents
were reported from nearby towns
In New Jersey. Al West Grange a
big tree was uprooted and caugh.
an automobile in which Charles
Lurh. general manager Of the Edi-
son Works. and his family were
riding. Iuhr was Knocked out OF