Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-06-13
STORM LASTING
LESS THAN FIVE
MINUTES y., ]
SCORES l,'..1.0.(, !.
Bodies of W. q han 60
Have BeeDt, yered and
SearCherL jdiCt They
Will Find Many More,
CO. MILE WIND HITS
CANOEING PARTIES
But Scarcely a Dozen Of
the 250 Small Craft
Escaped Total Death Toll
May Never Be Known.
(By The Associated Press.)

! tBy Ine Associated Efebh.b
New York, June IL (by the As
sociated Press -Morgues and un-
dertaking Establishments of the
metropolitan area tonight held the
bodies of more than three score
men, women and children-victims
:, of yesterdays brief cyclonic thun-
der storm.
Marine police, who continued
Throughout the day their work OF
graphing in Pelham bay and Long
Island sound off City Island, where
the greatest toll was taEen among
Sunday canoeists and fishermen,
predicted they would find at least
score more victims-enough to push
the death toll rast eighty. Eye
witnesses of the saift tragedy
placed the number even higher.
Scamper for Shelter.
AT least $50 canoes, rowboats and
small motor boats were bobbing
about off the island, witnesses said,
when the storm came screaming
down on the resort at a velocity OF
eighty miles an hour or better.
Occupants of the little craft, sens
ing their danger, scampered for
shelter. But scarcely had they got
under way when they were en-
quilted in binding storm of rain
land hail.
AS quickly as it had come, the
storm vanished. 1t had lasted less
than five minutes. But scarcely a
dozen of the ESQ small craft had
escaped. Horror-struck but help
less to aid, the crowds on the beach
and about tho Casino pier saw
scores of men and women clinglns
to wrecked and overturned craft III
the choppy sound and bay. One by
lone, they gave up the struggle, arM
dropped quietly off, to be carried
out toward the open sea by tne
tide.
Some of the bodies, the police
say, probably never will be recover
ed. The tide, turning, brought
more than score Of them back to-
day.
Heroic Work Saved Many.
Eye witnesses estimated that
there were between 500 and 75O
persons in the wrecked craft lie
roic work by United States me
guards, members of nearby yacht
clubs and volunteers from the shore
crowd, saved hundreds.
Among the first to put out were
Jack Murray, j. c. Bower, Jack
Malloy and Frank Warttinger.
Manning two small motor boats
they saved more than a dozen meh
and women whom they found
clinging to overturned canoes and
rowboats. They were followed py
others, and soon more than iltty
craft of all sorts were out, drasSIls
to safety the survivors OF the dlsas-
ter. A score or more saved thelh
selves by clinging to the SIDES ol
Cornelius Vanderbilt's schooner
yacht Intrepid until they WERE
hauled in or picked up by rescue
craft. , ~,
The waters had been cleared by
night fall of all the living, but lhe
search for the dead continueu
through the night. Guided py
searchlights Of the police boat, Jonn
r. Hylan, a score of boats cruised
about, occasionally finding poale''
Chaos Reigns on shore.
Meantime, chaos relgned VI,
shore, where darkness descehdeu
unbroken by the usual glare o.
electric lights. The island power
plant had been put out OF comii,s-
sion by the storm, as had the tele-
phone and telegraph lines.
Mothers, fathers, wives or the
besleged the police station.
where a temporary morgue had
been set up-gazing fearfully at the
faces of the dead by the flickerins
light of candles and lanterns.
Others crowded the wreck-strewn
beach waiting for the rescue boats
to come in with more bodies.
Fresh crowds hurried to the is
land today, when they had flrst
news of the tragedy through the
morning newspapers. Police direct
ed them to the Bronx morgue'
where the thirty-four bodies so tar
recovered had been removed.
Storm Wrought Other Havoc.
The City Island calamity, while |
the greatest, was not the only havoc
by the storm.
Pending investigation, a charge |
of homicide was lodged against |
Paul Simon, owner OF the seventy |
IoOt leTriS wheel at Cidsop VIM
park, in the Bronx, which was
blown from its base and hurled its
sixty occupants on the beach or
Long Island Sound in tangle of
steel wrecKage. Seven were killed
and twenty-seven injured.
More than score of Isolated
electrocutions by touch
ing fallen wires, and death be-
meath falling trees were reported
from various parts of the metropol-
tan area.