The New York herald., 1922-06-12

TO get out of the dance halls and the
inclosed concessions to see what had
happened and to ind out the mea r.ng
| OF the terrific noise and the cries for
help: the other part Of the crowd was
trying TO get into the dance halls be-
cause they had seen what had happened :
they kney the meaning of the noise and
the shrieks of agony. They met at the
doors and. panic stricken, began To fight.
Only the arrival OF the police and the
establishment OF police lines prevented
several people being hurt.
Finally the police restored some
semblance OF order and meanwhile they
had been proceeding with the work OF
rescue. They dug into the wreckaee.
lifting aside the steel and the timbers
and bringing forth as gently as possible
the body of man or woman or
child. They carried the still forms
through the rain into the dance hall. in
which the ambulance surgeons from Lin
coin and Fordham hospitals had Sc.
up their first aid stations, and the ter
ribly injured ones were taken at once
into ambulances and hurried to the
hospitals. For a long time tine surgeons
worked. but finally they had treated the
last case. and their share of the rescue
| work was over. But for hours the
police and volunteers worked in the
wreckage, searching for bodies or for
injured persons who had been over
looked In the first hurried quest.
Assistant District Attorney Quigley
and Capt. McGrath began questioning
Simons and witnesses shortly after they
arrived and the Assistant District At
torney said that he would conduct
| thorough investigation IN an effort to nix
responsibility for the accident.
Abram Wrans. whose wife and daugh-
ter We're killed when tree crashed
through the roof of the Red Lion Inn in
| Westches.er county. escaped death HIM
self only because when he heard the
storm coming he left the inn and the
table wnere his wife and daughter sat
to see to their automobile. He was
putting up the curtains when he saw
the tree blown down and saw 1t crash
through the roof. He hurried back into
the inn but when he got there his wife
! and his child were buried beneath tho
pile OF bricks and the timbers of the
roof And both We're dead when their
bodies were dragged out.
The dining room was filled with GUS
toners when the tree fell. and several
were cut and bruised by the bricks and
among them c. J. Watson OF SOL Win
throp avenue. New Haven. who was cut
on the forehead. shoulders and nose. 1t
was in the annex to the inn that the
| accident occurred. and the Wrana party.
which included besides Mr.. Wrana and
his wife and daughter his sister-in-law,
Mrs. Sarah Mirkin. Their table was
alongside an open fireplace Mrs. Mirkin
had got up from the table when the
roof crashed in. and although she was
hit by several bricks she was not seri-
| ously hurt.
Mrs. Anna Goldkopf and her son.
James, z. of 2015 Lexington avenue,
were at Silver Beach. near Fort Schuy-
Ter. when a tree was blown down and
| fell on them. Both received internal in
| juries and were sent to a hospital.
Miss Hilda Dennler. of 740 Edison ave-
nue., The Bronx. was hurt and sent to
Lincoln Hospital when her house, a
small bungalow was blown over by the
wind.
broadway Signs Blown Down.
| Three persons We're injured many
large sign were blown down and bent
and plate glass windows were broken by
the storm in the White Light District.
| The Fisk Tire Company's heavy steel
sign. 50x50 feet. on the roof of the
twelve story building at 244 to ESQ West
| Fifty-fourth street. buckled under the
wind and sank to the roof
| II the sign had blown clear OF the
roof It probably would have crashed
through the roof of ST. Marks Episcopal
Church. negro. in West Fifty-third. Just
back Of the building. AS it was the
sign lay perlously near the edge of the
building and for two hours the police
roped off Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth
streets between Broadway and Eighth
| avenue.
4 C,.~
| tain OF the Ninth Battalion were sum-
moned to the Hotel Harding. Broadway
and Fifty-fourth street. after long lad
der had blown from the roof to the
| edge of the roof of the six story build
| ing adjoining Firemen climbed to the
roof and secured the ladder with ropes.
| A few minutes later they went to I'll
| Seventh avenue. where Leo Feists sign
had been blown In two from the top of
the third floor and had fallen to the
| sidewalk. taking some smaller signs
with 1t and missing several persons by
only few feet
| Four large plate glass windows in the
| lower shopping district were broken. At
| the Welkover Rug Company. 132-134
! West Tnirty-fourth street, a twelve foot
show window was blown in. At 315
| Seventh avenue window In the United
Cigar Store was smashed. In the store
| OF u. a. i. OreenDers, ciotnleTS, OF $40
! Eighth avenue. a large plate glass win
! dow buckled under the blast, and a SINH
lar mishap occurred to one OF the large
/ show windows of Murfer Brothers at
1150 Broadway, manufacturers of silk
and embroidery. Police from the West
Thirtieth street station were busy until
n late hour last evening In boarding up
4 the broken fronts to prevent theft or
| further damage from the storm. There
were also numerous casualties among
the small windows In the loft districts
ranging from Thirty-fourth to Four
teenth street, between Seventh and
| Madison avenues.
Times Building window Broken.
Three men who were standing in the
| Forty-second street entrance Of the
Times Building were injured when the
window above the door was blown out
ward and fell upon them. They were
Herbert Loosberg. aged 81. OF A Mercer
street. Brooklyn. cut head; Isadore
| Kailet. a. OF 1874 Union street. Brook
| lyn. probable fracture Of the skull. and
Refine Percy. 81. OF 300 Fifth avenue.
Astoria. cut right arm.
During the storm the bricks began
| to fly from the cornice of the five story
tenement at 161 West Sixty-second
street and the twelve families living
there ran to the rear of the building
| The Building Department sent an In
spector, who said the house was in no
Immediate danger Of collapse.
Large plate glass windows were blown