Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 September 1938 — Page 3

THURSDAY, SEPT. 29 1938

... New England Counts Its Dead

From Hurricane and Floods;

Rhode Island Bears Brunt

Many Still Are Missing and Losses May Go Even Higher With Communications Still Out of Order.

and Haverhill, to the sea. In Vermont, the Winooski and White Rivers boiled over their banks, and elsewhere in New England

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5 Thousands of Trees Uprooted

which flows through central New| 3 Hampshire and the Massachusetts extile cities of Lowell, Lawrence

nearly a dozen other streams, large g&

and small, sent | seurring from their homes. At Hartford, Conn., the Weather Bureau said the stream Cottages Swept Into Canal | would reach a crest of 33 feet there at about noon tomorrow, ! Co-operating with 3700 National It overflowed much of Hartford today. The Hudson River was rising rapidly in upstate New York and was expected to continue rising until 2 a. m. tomorrow. Hundreds of persons were evacuated from river front sections of Troy, Waterford, Albany and Rensselaer as the stream, rising a foot every four hours, climbed toward the record peaks of the disastrous 1936 flood. Fire followed the storm in several Connecticut cities, and damage throughout the ravished area was mounting. The hurricane struck first on Long Island, ripping South Ta Shore resort communities to pieces. Fifteen of the island's ang gestruction. dead were killed at West Hampton, where luxurious homes] pane Buier nok of Ope Ooi i built upon sand dunes were blown into the sea. Bodies provincetown. was cut off from the were found for miles along the beach. ‘outside world and had been for 48 The 90-mile-an-hour wind piled up a 40-foot tidal wave hrs. which demolished everything in its path. i r= The hurricane swept across the island and struck Port He ree oy Jefferson with full force. The Park City, a steam ferry during the hurricane, were evacuoperating between Port Jefferson and Bridgeport, Conn., was 31d Se ay Sars of Sae) blown off its course and was unreported for more than springfield College gymnasium. | six hours with 20 passengers and a crew of five. The vessel The New England Telephone &

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| scattered cities and towns were Salvation Army, WPA, and hundreds of Coast Guards. police. firemen, Boy Scouts and other re-

cruits.

with scores of cottages. swept from the shore by last night's 100-mite- | an-hour hurricane and resultant’ tidal wave. . Virtually every seaside community along the 50-mile arm of Cape Cod reported, with restoration of com-

Prisoners Riot During Storm

| Guardsmen who were on duty in 39

workers of the American Red Cross, |

lowland dwellers! ”

The Cape Cod Canal was choked Thousands of trees were uprooted by the hurricane which swept the East.

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by Eastern Storms |FULL FURY OF

| STORM MISSES NEW YORK CITY

‘Manhattan Isolated, Strewn

Lon

With Wreckage; Center of NEW YORK, Sept. 22 (U. PP), ~= New York City was isolated from

| Gale 50 Miles East. | many of its suburbs and surrounded

¥ by desolation today after a hurri‘cane and tidal wave, Long Island, to the east, was strewn from one end to the other | with wreckage. Nine were known dead, more than 100 were missing.

Whole summer colonies of homes, hotels and boardwalks were de= molished. Towns, populated mostly by city

Times-Aeme Telephoto. I commuters, were without light, telee

m This scene was taken at Williston Park, L

phone or drinking water. Train service was paralyzed. roads

F. D. R. ORDERS |

Known Death Toll

blocked by timbers and fallen trees. In New Jersey, to the south, and in upstate New York, the destruction was less severe but more widee

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Center Passes East

FEDERAL AID

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Takes Personal Charge as. Coast Guard, Red Cross Mobilize Forces.

NEW YORK CITY Mrs. Catherine Smith, 355, by trolley running in rain. Unidentified hitch-hiker, diowned attempting to escape from stalled automobile. CONNECTICUT Mrs. Arthur Miller, Hartford. homeless housed in an armory and, George Henry, Glastonbury. tel. Miss Mary A. Kenifick, Joseph R. Hamlen, chairman of Hartford. the Boston Metropolitan Red Cross, Robert O'Connor, Hartford. Chapter, reported that at least 23| Robert J. Taggart, Manchester. Massachusetts cities were under, George Kirby, Westport, martial law. | John Chessey, Tolland. The Springfield. Mass, chapter Charles Krolikowfki, Stratford. reported 1600 homeless and in refugee centers, but no officially con-|

killed

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Harry Warshauer, Brooklyn, N. Y,,

West

Patrick H. Kelleher, New Britain. |

: ithe western fringe of the severs route home from maternity case. | [rapped When Machine Is winds. | Francis Martin, 12, Easthampton, v a by falling tree. | Engulied by Tidal Wave | The center of ibe hurricane, with Richard A. Gilday, 26, Everett, by | winds of almost 90-mile velocity falling board. At Jamestown, R. I. swirling around a small vacuum

Mrs. Fred Carlson, North Easton, | core, passed inland, northbound

| by falling chimney. ! ; : Mrs. Laurent Lesmerines, 19, by | JAMESTOWN, R. I, Sept. 22 youn the {rapics; 80 mies ens of {here at about 3 p. m. (Indianapolis

| roof cave-in at West Manchester, P.).—Fire headquarters reported to. 1 it a N. H. ‘day that seven children—four of LMe) yesterday. Walter Cremins, 60, Newport, R. g ; | The weather observer at Babylon | 1. by building collapse. P them members of the same family—| on 1,0ng Isiand estimated that the Miss Sears, Newport, R. IL, were trapped and drowned when a exact center had passed up the main | nurse, drowned at Bailey's Beach. tidal wave engulfed a school bus. [Street of that town at exacily 3 | Charles H. Munsell, 44, Long-| The victims were Joseph, Teresa, | clock. : | meadow, when car overtvrned min othy d Eun D : Had the center shifted slightly to | washout of road. Ludlow. jbarotny and’ Eunice” Matoes; JOON ihe left, there might have eons | Unidentified man drowned Malibu and Constantine Geodls, and Marion | calamity in this city of seven million

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killed at Willimantic, John J. Daly, Naugutuck. Patrick Joyce, Chesire, Mrs. Carl Carlson, Branford. George Hoyt, Stamford. Paul Castelot, Stratford. Thomas J. Cannellan. New Haven, Three unidentified dead at Thimble Islands, Branford. Mrs. Morvison W, Johnson, Hartford. Mrs. Ada Dickinson, Westhroek. Unidentified man at Chalker Beach and unidentified woman at Plum Bank. Two unidentified bodies off Saybrook Point. MASSACHUSETTS, RHODE ISLAND AND NEW HAMPSHIRE Mrs. Isadora Gould, 50, Weare, N.

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ii . . : : Telegraph Co., with every available was found nine miles off Stratford Shoals and was taken an on the job. strove to restore , Officials described the situation as, aboard were reported safe. the worst in the company's history. | te : 4% ‘nities were without telephone! across the sound, kicking up raging surfs which pounded! ‘io the Connecticut coast. The hurricane, followed by flood Cod bore the brunt of vesierday’s Red Cross headquarters said re higt , disaster, much of today's damage George P. Drowne, Red Cross work- | that state's history. T ) 4 iver 1} +v streams rose to chusetts. from Westerly, R. I, that 10 were! The Connecticut River and tributar rean e Hatfield broadcast an appeal for fan ana 20° inaceounted for ae <t oft record | imperilled by the Connecticut River. sajq 500 summer cottages were deWII'S! on rete Main St. was several feet under Wa- siroyed along 15 miles of coast, and ; y : atched boats. s at sterly 1936 flood levels. U. S. Weather Observer Gustav Lind- P : il persons eis fo We gren at Albany said the stream would reach a crest at 2 TWe Landslides Reporte bv FoR RT had died and 80 houses were damfOoMmorrow, ra . !there were severe washouts, while ' aged. The Dutchess County Red Tidal waves, floods and wind created similar havoc in landslides were reported at North {three injured. The Nassau County ah Brig, Gen. Edgar C. Erickson of Chapter reported it was caring for leaving scores of communities desolated. |the National Guard estimated that WRT ; f tl hief fferers Expert on Way Providence was one o ie chiel suiferers (Indianapolis Time) would reach a' The Red Cross was advised George ~ . : : . {below 28.8 feet recorded in 1936 . 2 t 1936 | flooding streets eight to 25 feet deep. |When the business center of Spring. | « far north as Montreal Already, an estimated 15.000 per- | as 1ar north as I . sons had fled their homes in the

Myer, one of its disaster experts, H., swept to death when bridge colwas en route from New York to japsed. ; New London, Conn. aboard the Her mother, Mrs. Hettie Lull, 75, Coast Guard cutter Campbell. Weare, same accident. Deputy WPA Administrator Au- Miss Maud Kenney, brey Williams authorized R. . same.

55, Weare,

tow bv the Coast Guard harbor tug Manhattan. All shattered communication channels. The storm, accompanied by torrents of rain, ripped At one time. they said, 100 commu- | Whereas Rhode Island and Cape firmed fatalities. nd fire, wreaked upon Connecticut the worst disaster in {and dangers lay in western Massa- .; reported by short wave radio | levels higher than those of the disastrous 1936 flood, the help in evacuaung the populace. cording to “verified reports.” He In New York State the Hudson River was rising toward ter. National Guard officers dis- that the Red Cross fed 300 or 400 | Hampton, Long Island, said nine] | In Hinsdale and West Pittsfield Cross advised one was dead and Massachusetts, isolating Cape Cod from the rest of the state Adams and Savoy. 50 families. in Rhode the Connecticut River, at 8 p. m.| Island, tremendous tides sweeping 1000 feet into the city crest of 28 feet, only a few inches The storm roared through New Hampshire and struck field was deeply inundated. Rescue workers, organized by the national Red Cross north and south ends of that city. | Branion, regional administrator for

Miss Aura Morse, 65, Weare, same.

and the Coast Guard, which were in full charge of succorthe survivors, feared that the isolated New England state's dead at 75 to 100, with propges and towns would prove to be scenes of great devwere trving frantically to reach them. to have been recovered from the sea

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»rusands were crowded into refugee camps, many

center of the hurricane, with pounding, 90-mile an

First detailed reports from isolated Rhode Island estimated that

erty loss at least $15,000.000. Twenty-one bodies were reported

of off Westerly. | Hundreds of Homes Gone

ished in Providence River.

hour winds, passed inland just 50 miles from New York! Four hundred houses, mostly sum-

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It left the beaches strewn with wrecked boats, tages and trees, tore down power lines and left numerous swept the coast from Narragansett |

said Rhode Island's loss $10,000,000 to $15,000,000. Whole summer colonies on Long homes were reduced to matchwood | were destroved; in some places the contour of the island Park. a coast was changed by great washouts. The entire Coast Guard personnel of 2500 officers and

cot- mer cottages, were wrecked or carried seaward by a tidal wave that | Pier to Watch Hill, two fashionable { Rhode Island summer colonies. be Relief workers reported

would that

men was assigned to rescue work. Coast Guard headquar- places, likewise was hard hit.

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sunk or pounded to pieces.

Fire Island, off Long Island's south shore, was washed to The station at Moriches was abandoned, the crew aping in boats but losing all their belongings when the uilding “just disappeared,” according to official reports. The remaining Coast Guard stations were swamped It was reported that an officer and two men of the Woods Hole, Mass., station were among |

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the dead.

The staff of the Providence, R. I., Journal-Bulletin, dispatched scores of National Guard quarters driven from the plant, went to Boston, 50 miles away, to publish vesterday’s evening edition. The tidal wave had caused havoc. volunteers joined National Guardsmen in rescue and patrol|¥as 88 miles an hour. Many were armed to prevent looting.

work.

in Washington ordered the Norfolk, Va., division to dv to send reinforce:nents. mated that 600 small boats in the New York area had been!

Nowhere in Rhode Island was _ power available. Business was at The Coast Guard esti- a standstill. Providence : “holiday” The Coast Guard station at much as eight feet under water. 3700 Troops Called Out

Governor Hurley of Massachu- | setts last night proclaimed a “state of emergency” and 3700 National { Guardsmen patrolled 39 cities and towns to balk looters, aid refugees, and sandbag dikes against the encroaching flood waters. After a midnight conference with overnor Hurlev and other State | officials. Adjt. Gen. Charles H. Cole

banks declared a

trucks to transport milk or ciear 10ads for its movement. Striking without warning, the . . ‘hurricane raged for two and oneLegionnaires and naif hours. Ss maximum velocity Not for hours, perhaps days, will the full toll be

Thousands known. for some communities, such

A dozen persons reportedly per-

because vaults were as!

New England, to use “all available men” in the emergency. i { Chairman Norman H. Davis of the Red Cross dispatched Robert E. Bondy, National Disaster Relief | Director, in a Coast Guard plane p to Providence, R. I, to set up head- |, quarters for the entire stricken! | area. | | Mr. Williams said sufficient funds | were available under the regular, | WPA work-relief program to cover ithe cost of emergency work. Officials {said several thousand already en|gaged in emergency work because of | {Massachusetts and Connecticut | floods prior to the storm wer

“+> AIVERS POUR INTO |

{mediately available for the clea task. WPA Workers Ready Rhode Island WPA administrator | HARTFORD'S CENTER ——

| Farrell D. Coyle reported that WPA | workers were ready to begi mer- | New London Fights Fire; Asylum Inmates Riot.

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James J. Howes, 46, Worcester, blown through window. Edward Koehler, 45, struck by beam. Timothy Kelliher, 60, eart attack induced by hurricane. Miss Marion Child, 76, East Walpole, by tree falling on her car. Israel Baker, 55, Malden, hit by falling chimney at Cambridge. Unidentified woman, electrocuted as live wire hit her automobile at Manchester, N. H. Mrs. Lydia Woods, North Brook-

Methuen,

Brockton,

gency work immediately upon sub- | sidence of the storm. WPA headquarters announced that R. C. Branion, WPA field representative for New York and New England. | was inspecting the Massachusetts ! flood areas. The emergency ICC suspension of | __ (railroad rules was authorized primarily to prevent congestion of : : {shipments oF supplies rigs into | trees thrashing to the ground outthe stricken sections. The commis-| Side. Doctors and nurses went on 'sion authorized carriers to disre- 23 hour duty. ; y gard routings specified by bills of | . Rockville was saved from destruclading and to expedite all ship-| tion by workers who toiled through | Iments over the most direct routes, |the night strengthening the Snip{The rates for such shipments will Si¢ Dam, which for a time threatconform to schedules over routes nnd to collapse. =~ designated o nthe date of shipment.| Lack of communications added | Naval communications and short iar to the unknown to fear of the | wave radio kept Red Cross head- |actual. Many sections of the state] in contact with develop- | for hours did not know what had {ments, but officials said that neith- {happened in other sections. State er supplies nor funds would be sent {Police Were unable to warn com-| until a complete survey has been Munities in the path of the storm | ‘made by field representatives. (and of the later flood waters. | | Disrupted communication 'facili-| With the coming of daylight re[ties delayed a comprehensive survey | pair crews were sent out, and the ‘by Coast Guard. Damage to its State Highway Department dis‘stations from New York to northern Patched squads of men to remove

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roofs off buildings and knocked

field nurse, by bursting dam en]

were marooned in office buildings. At the height of the

‘as Pawtucket, R. I., and Watch Hill. New England was extensive, how- | | Four women drowned when a ever, on the basis of pretininge |

debris from highways. Glastonbury was one of the hard-

Beach, South Boston. | Cagllis. Unidentified person at Leominster. James Edwards, Southbridge. Unidentified man blown from roof i of Thomas School, Worcester, | Unidentified man at Marlboro, by tree falling on auto at Northboro. Unidentified man in same acci- | dent. Unidentified man’s body found near Swift Beach at Wareham. Hiram Flansberg, 33, North Grafton, hlown from farm building roof, George Howe, 77, Grafton, | fell on him. | Everett Rich, 62, Spencer, barn | collapsed on him, Phineas Bergeron, Pawtucket, R. I. Unidentified woman drowned at Charlemont, Mass. Mrs. John C. Morris (Philadelphia socialite) drowned in tidal wave at | Narragansett pier. Her son, John, drowned with her. Miss Audrey Lucas of Yonkers, N. Y.,, at Northfield, Mass., seminary, by falling chimney. Miss Norma Stockberger of Meriden, Conn. at Northfield in same accident, Lester S. Cornell, 58, vice president Merchants Bank of New Bedford, reported drowned when swept into sea at Salters Point. The Rev. George A. Jowdy, 60, pastor of Our Lady of Purgatory Church, New Bedford, struck by falling pole at Pope Beach. Carlton Smith, 40, of Watertown, killed by falling tree. Andrew Horne, 51, of Clinton, at Clinton. Joseph Pittsfield.

74, killed at

Micek, 25, of Adams, at

Walter Ouellette, 21, at Tyngs-

boro. Robert Shear, 12, at Malden. | William Reed, 52, at Pittsfield. | . Frank Relation, at Nashua, N. H. Unidentified man, at South Bow, N. H. Unidentified woman's body found floating, Buzzards Bay, Mass. | Unidentified woman, believed nurse, found dead at Gilbertsville. | John Calran, 30, Brockton, skull fracture. | Earl Hayes, 24, of Somerset, drowned at Exchange St., in Providence, R. I., atop submerged auto. Cporinda Lupoli, 18, crushed by falling wall in Providence. Mrs. Hulda C. Pecontfowski, East Providence, chimney toppled on car.! Unidentified drowning victim at] Providence. The Rev. Fr. Crawley at Pawtuck- | ef, R. I. Six unidentified men and women at Pawtucket, R. I. Unidentified man at Amherst. Unidentified Springfield newsboy. Fireman Foster and Engineer Pulsiver, drowned when tugvoat Mildred Olsen capsized in Boston Harbor. Alexander Riviere, 58, New Bedford. Emmanuel Pimental, mouth, R. I. John Thorpe, Pawtucket,

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storm, a tank car containing 3000 cubic feet of illuminating,

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At Springfield, the grandstand at the Eastern States collapsed, |

Exposition Ground

injuring four. and when!

idge collapsed into the flood-swol-{len Piscataquog River in Weare,

H. Towhoat Capsizes in Harbor One crew member drowned and

10,000 spectators stampeded in panic, scores were trampled. three others were rescued when the

Evewitness Account One of de first towns struck was West Hampton, I.. I. A resident described the storm as follows: “It to rain real hard shout 2:15 p. m. yesterday. A half hour later lights failed, the wind increased and the rain came down in torrents. At 4 p. m. a huge tidal wave crashed into town, sweeping everything before it. Huge timbers, 15 feet long, were carried along like match sticks and the water reached the first story level, carrving houses away and smashing every window in those that remained standing.” Wrecked houses were swept as much as a mile inland. Police Chiaf Stephen Teller and Sergt. Timothy

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closed by water.

Robinson used a floating roof for a! raft and pulled 40 persons from the]

water. All 42 of them floated four hours before they were rescued. Queen Mary Held at Dock New York City's 7,000,000 inhabiwho barely escaped the worst of the storm, were drenched with a 42-inch rain. The wind blew 75

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. miles an hour.

Lights failed for! two hours last night in two sec-| Subway service |

Looting was reported in a few areas. at area Olson 3

psized in Boston Harbor. Three Coast Guards were believed drowned at Woods Hole and Falmouth, Mass. Three persons were drowned cff

reports. |est hit towns. The hurricane first One officer and two men were re- ripped off the Seems of 108 Fos orted missin and sve | Congregational Chure anc hen! i at i Hole. Miter loved | lew down the walls, leaving the Bourne. Mass.

‘were attached to the Coast Guard building a wreck. Tobacco TTI New Bedion boat General Green whi 4 _ | were lifted high in the air and then | Hi Moti " EHR, nich Was en- | oashed. A hundred houses were| Stephen Watts and John Winter age S uzzards flattened of Marion, drowned as boathouse | Bay. Se collapsed.

Special refugee stations were set Joseph, Teresa, Dorothy and Eu-

up. i : : ; . in Fast Hartford were | Nice Matoes; John and Constantine Great areas in East Hartford were Geodis, and Marion Cagallis,

| pv ; ; » water and evacuations were | 3 several hours. Mobile communica- | Under |drowned at Jamestown, R, I, in

hit by pole.

Seven unidentified dead near

| Coast Guard headquarters have had no communication with its sta- | tion at Montauk Point, L. I., for

was halted for a time and thou- Nahant, Mass, when a fishing smack | tion units were dispatched to that |general there.

sands were stranded. Two of the capsized. four Manhattan-Hudson tubes were| A Catholic priest was reported to Commuters were have been trapped and drowned in unable to reach Long Island. {an automobile during the tidal wave The Queen Mary was held at her | at Newport, R. I. dock all night with 868 passengers. : The Ile de France arrived shortly | Wave against the Rhode Island before the worst of the wind, list- Shore. It backed the Providence ing as the gale lashed its port side. | River up 20 feet above normal, The Staten Island ferryboat Knick- flooding the downtown business diserbocker, loaded with 200 passen- | trict to a depth of seven to 25 feet.

The hurricane unleashed the tidal |

gers, tipped at its dock on the Bat- |.

tery and almost overturned. Suburban Westchester was hard hit. bridges washed out, an estimated 10.000 trees uprooted. More than 100 homes were flooded in New Rochelle. Fifty persons were evacuated from Williston Park.

Crest Expected at Dusk With the hurricane far off the

North Atlantic Coast, principal dan-| ger seemed to be centered in New|

England's biggest river, the Connecticut, which flows between Vermont and New Hampshire, through Massachusetts and Connecticut, into Long Island Sound.

Already, it had caused extensive

havoc, and armies of National Guardsmen, WPA workers and voiunteers were sandbagging key points where the waters were likely to roar through as the river reached its crest at dusk. Rising rapidly was the Merrimack, b

Roads were blocked, |

Automobiles caught in the swirlIng waters were sent careening

County | 200u streets. Chester Hayes, 30,

| clinging to the top of a submerged | car, drowned when a second car | knocked him from his perch. Four | others drowned in Provindence and | seven died at Jamestown, R. I. | Receding waters left Providence's | streets littered with broken poles land branches, shattered window | glass and soggy merchandise. Automobiles were scattered helterskelter. ~ Sections of the roofs of Providence’s Central Police Station, Pub‘lc Library and Union Station were ripped off. Antitetanus Serum Used Doctors gave injections of antitetanus serum to refugees through all the area. A landslide carried 22 cars of a freight train into the Deerfield River at Soapstone, just east of the Hoosac tunnel in western Massachusetts. | At Boston Navy Yard, the U. S. ‘Constitution, historic “Old Iron-

| area but roads, flooded and blocked Trucks backed up to all business | | with fallen trees, made passage concerns in the stricken areas, tak|nearly impossible. {ing stocks away to higher land.| | Many of them were wheel-deep in| | sides,” for a time threatened to| water, so fast was the river rising. | | capsize. Schools were closed. Many busiThe Coast Guard asked amateur ness houses shut down at noon. Emradio operators to assist in the ployees were unable to get home. emergency. | The flood was approaching ‘the | At Worcester, more than 50 per- | level of the great flood of 1936, the | sons were cut by flying glass from | worst in history.

{auto crash.

school bus. Mrs. William Ordner and her son William Jr., 14, drowned at Jamestown, R. IL. Unidentified man, barn colla

killed when psed at Jamestown, R. I. MONTREAL : Robert A. Darwin, electrocuted by fallen live wire. Damien Papineau, taxi driver, in

shattered store windows. The First]

Unitarian Church steeple crashed | to the ground. At Marlboro the! spires of the Immaculate Concep- | tion Catholic Church, the First| Congregational Church, the Method- | ist Church and the first parish Uni- | tarian Church were blown to the ground. : : Power failed while doctors were removing the left eye of William | Zilinski, 14, at St. John’s Hospital| {in Lowell. The operation was fin- | ished by candlelight.

‘Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert 1s Reported Missing

| NEW YORK, Sept. 22 (U. P).— | Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert, widow of the | former agent-general for World War reparations, was reported missing | today from her Southhamption, L. | I, home in an announcement by J. | |P. Morgan and Co. in which her | husband was a partner. The Coast Guard is searching for her, the announcement said.

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persons. As it was, Manhattan and Brooklyn were battered by a 75-mils wind and four and one-half inches of rain which crippled electrical ‘service, halted subway trains and left two vast districts in darkness for two hours.

| The accident occurred yesterday, but was reported belatedly due to crippled communication facilities. Two other persons, Mrs. William {Ordner and her son William Jr, 14, also were drowned here, | An unidentified man was killed ‘when crushed under a collapsing | barn.

‘Six Die in House

‘Flipped Into Stream

Ocean Liners Imperiled New York City proper suffered ne casualties, however. Many wers stranded in town throughout the night, unable to reach their suburban homes due to the closing of roads and stoppage of Long Island trains, Ocean liners were delayed and

BOURNE, Mass., Sept. 22 (U.P). |—Eight persons were known to be ldead and at least six others were missing on Cape Cod today. imperiled. | Six were found in a house float-| A ferry boat, with 20 passengers {ing in the Cape Cod Canal. The and a crew of five, had been miss‘structure had been flipped into the| ing 12 hours and there were grave stream by the wind. The body of fears for its fate. ‘a woman was found floating in the Fire Island, off the south coast of flooded streets of Buzzards Bay, and | Long Island, suffered terrific damthe eighth body, that of a young age. Staten Island, comprising one woman domestic, was found float- Of the city’s five boroughs, also was ing on an estate near the canal. In Woodshoe six persons were missing and believed dead.

‘Famed Bailey's Beach

Reported ‘Just Gone’ | NEWARK, N. J. Sept. 22 (U. P)). —Elliot Underhill, an Eastern Aeronautical Corp, pilot, arrived | here today after a flight over part ‘of the New England storm area and reported that Bailey's Beach at

Newport, R. I, was “just gone.” | He said the storm appeared to {have left nothing standing on the | famous society beach. Mystic and Stonington, Conn. Mr. Underhill said, presented a scene of devastation. On a bridge connecting the two towns, he said. was a train with two cars upturned. | Where the locomotive should have been, he added, was a schooner, ap- | parently swept upon the bridge by the storm.

hard hit. There were few casualties at either place, however. The extent of the havoc on Long Island was not realized until today. No town on the 150-mile Long Island escaped. The crashing waves had changed the contour of the island in places. Beaches were littered everywhere with broken boats, timbers, tangled wires and furniture. The ocean teemed with driftwood. Rescuers struggled through the surf in boats, hunting missing boats and missing men,

BEACH SWEPT AWAY AT WEST HAMPTON

Trusties Taken From Jail to Aid in Rescue Work.

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Many Are Injured As Montreal Is Struck

several miles of beach had heen cut away by the ocean. A jagged inlet MONTREAL Sept. 22 (U. P.) — was cut by the storm into the heart Emergency crews were called out!of the village of West Hampton today to repair damage left in the Beach. ake of the tropical storm which| J. W. Barnhart, business manager also struck here. Two persons were of the New York Daily News, one of known to be dead. Robert A. Dar- | the many summer residents reported win, 23, was electrocuted by a live | missing, was found to be safe today, wire. Damien Papineau, 58, a taxi| the newspaper reported. Mr. Barndriver, was killed when his cab hit|hart, with his wife, was marooned a safety zone. Emergency wards of |atop his home but was rescued last hospitals were overflowing with in- night. They were treated for minor jured. bruises and injuries by a physician,

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