The New York herald., 1922-06-12

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Stmons. has been placed under arrest
on technical charge of homicide, and
the District Attorneys Office an
nounced that he would be held while
an investigationyis being made by AS
sistant District Attorney William
Quigley, Inspector Dominick Henry
and Capt. John McGrath OF the de-
tective division. Simons told the police
by a bolt of lightning. because all of
a sudden there was a binding flash,
a noise like a tremendous explosion
and then the cries Of the injured and
the swirling rush of the rain.
Other witnesses 10 the accident told
the police that they thought the wind
alone was responsible for the accident
Some of Them said that they saw the
wheel swaying with the great gust that
plew like tornamo across the Sound.
and then they saw it buckle and bend
and then came the crash. And after the
first crash or -thei falling mass of steel
and timbers no one remembers any
OLner SOu0Q DQL Tie cries Ol tHc liJui GU
and the pelting- of the rain that swirled
downward from the skies In such a dull
ugc that 1t seemed like a great mass
of water was being poured out from
above II was Through this rain. and
through a winf that made 1t difficult
to stand that the rescuers had to
plunge when they tried to help the many
who were imprisoned under the ruins
OF the Ferris wheel,
The dead in this accident are
Mrs Pasquale Freda of 24s East
127th street.
Emily Lawyer, .,of 122 West 111th
street
Louis Danopio of 1894 Edith street
The Bronx.
Idela yanderpool. negro. AZ West
130th street
An unidentified negro man.
Sesulla Pellegrino. address unknown
Fourteen of the injured were able TO
go to their homes after they had been
The Bronx hospitals. but the following
eleven were sent to Lincoln or Ford
ham:
Ernest Clarke of 21o West sixty third
street. a negro.
Athelda Young of 20 West 12sth
street. a negro.
Izetta Potter of 32 West 13sth street,
a negro.
Elsie Molineau, II. of AZ West 1Soth
street.
Anna Molweska Of so42 Park avenue.
The Bronx.
Ethel Christian of AZ West 1891
street.
Kenneth Lawyer of 1872 West 111th
street.
Pasquale Freda of 24s West 1e7th
street.
William Herbert and his wife of 260
West 143d street, negroes.
David Alderdyce of 1880 Olmstead
avenue. The Bronx.
The most seriously hurt are Alderdyce
and Lawyer, with fractured skulls. and
Pasquale Freda, husband of the woman
who was killed. His legs are fractured
The ferris wheel had diameter OF
about 100 feet and had thirty cars. So
far as the police have been able to
learn there were about sixty persons
riding on the wheel. Warnings of the
storm had been given by the drop in
temperature. by the Pickering rain and
by the sharp gusts OF wind that for
moro than an hour before the breaking
OF the storms had been coming across
the Sound. But Simons, owner and op-
ertaor thought the wheel could weather
the storm: It had only recently been In
spected by the Building Department, he
said. and was in good shape
Several persons told tha police and the
District Attorney that they saw the
storm coming across Long Island Sound.
1t was funnel shaped. they said. the
same shape as the cyclones that ravage
Missouri and Kansas, and just before 1t
hit there was q quietness and a stiffness
In the air. so that every one could hear
the rumble of the wind and the swirl
OF the rain that was above and be-
yond IL.
A woman in the Ferris wheel
woman who rode at the very top OF the
big ring, shrieked and screamed and
then the next minute came the binding
flash of the lightning and the rush and
roar of the wind. The Ferris wheel
tent and swayed and the steel girders
cracked and ripped In the gale like bits
OF cardboard. There was first the sound
of the lightning, the cracking OF the
steel and then the awful crash and the
roar as the storm struck the wheel full
force and the steel and timbers COL
lapsed. The big wheel fell northward.
throwing shrieking men and women
right and left.
the houseboat owned by Capt. Oscar
Johnson. going through the roof at the
very moment that his daughter, Mrs.
Marie Tolberg of SIS East 1S0th street.
The Bronx, and her friend. Mrs. Helga
Long-in of 1131 West Farms road, The
Bronx. were getting up to close the win
dows, because the rain had begun to
come into the houseboat in sheets. They
had left Mrs. Tolberg's six months old
baby. Marie, lying I'm her baby carriage.
Through Houseboat Roof.