The evening world. Newspaper, September 17, 1903, Page 3

THAT SWEPT ALONG COAST As Communication Is Restored Reports Are Made of Lives Lost and Tremen- dous Damage to Property at Various Points Swept by the Fierce Hurricane Scores Injured and Hundreds Missing from New York. New Jersey and Del- aware Ports—New York Buildings Made Insecure and Gems Blown Into the Street, MANY PERISHED INSTORM ’ The local Weather Bureau to-day received the following special weather message from Wasaington: a “Northwest storm warnings are displayed along the coast from Nor- folk to New York. Storm over Western New York moving east. ‘n- creasing southwest to nerthwest winds, becoming high this afternoon. “FRANKENFIELD.” With the restoration cf telegraphic communication comes realiza- tion of the widespread loss of life and destruction of property due to the seventy-mile gale that swept New York and the neighboring seacoast. The totals are appalling. 4 | Thirty-two are known to have met with death. From every seacoast point there aré reports of many missing. Over a hundred lives were saved in this immediate vicinity by heroic rescue work in the angri- est sea seen hereabouts for twenty years. From all along the Sound, the lower Bay, the Long Island, New Jersey and Delaware coasts, come word of shipwrecks and destruction of shore property. The damage loss will run into the millions. WRECKED BY HUNDREDS. Between Hell Gate and Norton's Point the police boat Patrol counted 150 wrecked craft. Twelve boats were pounded to pieces on the Staten Island shore. Fifteen yachts were beached at City Island, where the successful coup defender Reliance was badly damaged and narrowly escaped scuttling, ‘and the Columbia was saved only by sinking the yacht Hildegarde, which qwas being swept down Upon her. In Jamaica Bay 150 sailing vessels were overturned, beached or pounded to pieces. From Bayonne comes word of tty wrecks of all descriptions between Communipaw and Perth Amboy, In Gravesend Bay thirty-four vessels were wrecked. : Fearful havoc to shipping and loss of life are indicated by the meagre reports from the lower Jersey and Delaware coasts. In New York the wind whirled about with a rotary velocity ranging from fifty-four to sixty-three ‘niles an hour. It uprooted trees, destroyed hundreds of plate glass windows, weakened church spires, tore signs from their moorings, slammed people down in the streets, wrecked trolley wires, telegraph and tolephone poles, , unrooted houses in the suburbs and made many where it had full eweep, as around the Flatiron Building, for instaiive, 1y impasenble. Three * fatalities are reported within the Greater City. One was due to live wires. ‘Another man was crushed to death under the roof of the race track grand stand at Aqueduct, which was torn off and sent sailing through the air. The mumber of seriously injured is over twenty, of whom twovor three will prob- ably die, FIVE HUNDRED DAMAGED. The way the wind slammed anchored crafts about in exposed and land- Jocked waters was flercer than the oldest salt in this vicinity can remember. Yacht and ship builders will have a busy season ahead, as no less than five hundred craft were destroyed or disabled by the storm. 2. Property loss that will amount into the millions was wrought et the summer resorts along the Jersey and Long Island coasts. Coney Island and the Rockaways narrowly escaped utter destruction. The wind unroofed scores of pleasure resorts, while the heavy sea damaged the old pier and the _ new iron pier at Coney. The new breakwater and bulkhead to protect the Ocean Parkway was untiermined and ruined. The Parkway baths were badly damaged. The Manhattan and Oriental hotels at Manhattan Beach es- caped damage, but Sheepshead Bay suffered greatly. At Far Rockaway the) sea piled in until it joined the inlet and all the bathing-houses and pavilions on Hog Island were swept away. The Jersey resorts, particularly Atlantic City, Asbury Park and Long Branch, suffered heavily. At Atlantic City several of the biggest and best known hotels were unroofed. REROISM IS SHOWN. To offset the dark story of death and destruction wrought by the angry ‘wind is the heroism of coast dwellers all along the pathway of the storm. Over a hundred lives were snatched from the raging waters by men and ‘women of nerve. Gravesend Bay, a quiet, landlocked water, was trans- formed into a raging sea with waves running twelve feet high. Thirty-four hts that were riding at anchor there when the storm broke were pounded into splinters. The 140-ton schooner Silver Wave, Capt. McLean, of New Brunswick, N. B., and the Edwin Collier, a sand schooner, crashed together off Simpkins) pier. The Collier's stern was cut off and she went down like shot. Her crew clambered aboard the Silver Wave by way of the martingale. This ship was 80 tossed about in the raging water that her captain put over a bont and tried to take his men ashore. He managed to ‘beach the boat, and the ten men were thrown out exhausted on the sand. Robert F. Supper took the: men to his hotel, and two of them, who were unconscious, were taken care ot by Mrs, Newton Bennington, wife of a horseman, who had seen their plight from her residence and went down to the beach in her automobile to assist. She took them home and cared for them. TWO MEN MISSING. Capt. McLean said that five of his crew had left the ship off Rockaway ‘and were marooned on a sand bar, The clcop Mascot, owned by Miss Norma L. Munro, dragged her anchor off the Marine and Field Club and drifted out toward Quarantine, On her were Mute Charles Jonsen and five men. Half way out the bay Mate Jonsen saw 2 man in a rowboat struggling against the waves and went to the res- cué with the sloop’s tender, Tho mist and rain hid both tender and row- _ boat, and nothing has been heard of Mate Jonsen or the man he went to | rescue, A naphtha launch, The Thermo, owned by J. J. O'Connell, of 1608 Pa- effic street, Brooklyn, was out jn the bay when the storm broke. In it were E. T, Stringer and William Blossam. The Thermo dragged: her anchor and drifted against a plier at Bath Beach, where the men were hauled ashore, ‘The launch was smashed on the beach. A lwuber’ schooner went on the rocks off Fort Hamilton, where she pounded to pieces and sank. 2 i One of the craft wrecked in Gravesend Bay was a Herreshoff boat, the Sandpiper, given by August Belmont to Arthur Redfern, the jockey. ‘The damage along the bay shore is estimated at $200,000, Out of forty craft owned by the Brooklyn Yacht Club only five survivea the storm A dance was scheduled to take place in the club-house last night. It was called off, and the club members held 4 wake instead. The New York Canoe Club lost its entire ficet. Several church steeples in Manhattan and Brooklyn will~have to bo jtorn down or strengthened as a result of the big blow. The lofty spire of $200,000 bronze doors donated py ‘Mrs, C. Vanderbilt are being put in, high and « cordon'ot oy ‘the ‘unsite. The ia 300. = = Bt. Bartholomew's Church at Madison avenue and Forty-fourth street, where! of the club are present. ory i FIER, NAA eon star M’LAUGHLIN WILL NOT * STAND FOR M’CLELLAN. Leader Murphy Visits the Brooklyn Boss, But Is Unable to Get Him to Indorse the Tammany Favorite. Jt has been learned that the object of Charles F. Murphy's visit to Hugh McLaughlin at the home of the Brook- lyn boss last night was to persuade the latter to agree to the unanimous nom!- nation of Representative George B. Mc- Clellan as the Democratic nominee for Mayor. The mission of the Tammany leader is said to have failed. There {s no doubt of Mr. Murphy's conviction that he can win with Mc- Clellan, mor of his desire to nominate McClellan. Outside of Mr. McLaughlin and the Brooklyn leaders there is no op- The boss of the position to McClellan. Brooklyn does not gainsay record of the young Congr does he deny hii ty to tion as Mayor. He bases his objection on the fact that McClellan is not strong in Brooklyn. “I want a man running for Mayor who clean THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVE. BUILDING WHICH COLLAPSED TO-DAY AT MADISON AND RUTGER REE Blotter can help the Kings County ticket,” !s Which Is the ultimatum of Mr. McLaughlin. The fact that McClellan {s not widely Police Capt. Known ia Brooklyn is one basis of objection to him on the part of the Kings County leaders, Another is that MoClellan has always been so closely associated with the present leader of Tammany Hall politically and socially that Mr. McLaughlin fears he would be known as “Murphy's man,” just as Van Wyck was known as “Croker's man.” ‘This is the shituation that caused Charles F, Murphy to charter a cab and Voyage over to Brooklyn last night. He visited Mr. McLaughlin in his home for nearly three hours, but it ts not likely that he made much headway. No man can forecast the outcome, but It is likely that some compromise will be arrived at, because It would not be policy to haye an open fight over the Mayoralty nomination on the floor of the conven- tlon. Westchester st: promptly against him. from his post. Walsh's entry learned to be imen was tt tain, DRINKS LAUDANUM AND NKALES GkS Frederick Herzog, Clerk to the Sheriff of Nassau County, Kills Himself To-Day in Third Avenue Hotel. Frederick Herzog. jr., forty-nine years old, an insurance broker, of Hicksville, L, I, and also clerk to Sheriff Johnson, of Naesau County, committed sulcide to-day in room No. 13 of the Bilwood Hotel, Twenty-fourth street and Third avenue, by drinking laudanum and in- haling gas. William Herzog, a brother of the dead man, reached the hotel only five minutes after the ambulance eyrgeon pronounced Frederick dead, having hastened to this uity on receiving a letter written last night by the suicide, stating that he was golng to kill himself. : Herzog had been at the hotel about a week. Last night, re going to his room, he wrote letters to his wife, his brother, William Herzog, and his father, Frederick Herzog, who keeps @ general store in Hicksville, and to his brother-in-law, informing them that he was about to end his life, but giving no reason for the act, When he reached his bedroom he fastened the doors and windows, and stopped every crack and aperture with paper, Then he turned on the gas from two jets, and drank a quantity of laudunum. In spite of these elaborate precautions he was still alive when a porter ruke into the’ room to-day, but he died while Ambulance Surgeon Reed, of Bellevue Hospital, was working on him, Willlam Hersog, the dead man's bro- ther, said to-day that there was abso- lutely no reason for the deed, as far as he knew, His brother was pros- perous, his home life was happy, and e was highly respected where he ii! The only suggestion of a motive was that recently he ‘had been playing the races rather heavily, The police found ‘in the clothes of the dead man a gold watch, 828 in bills and a mortgage for $800 he had just taken out. BACHELOR GIRLS FORM CLUB PROVIDENCE, R. L, Sept, 17,—With curls the emblem of spinsterhood, the Bachelor Girls Club has been formed at Pawtucket, with six charter members, all young society women. They have a constitution and by-laws and have prescribed penalties for fatiure to keen them, Leaning un a fence or gate talking with a mere man is limited to ten minutes, Each member Is limited to two hours’ continuous conversation with « man and must report the conversat jn ‘full to the club, Dates are pro- hibited unless two or more members @ person of the opposite Mombers must marry be! thirty vr me leat club, Poh cgpulste at any SEEKS WESTON’S PLACE. Proceedings Begun to Oust Cor- oner’s Physician. Lawyer A. 8. Gilbert, of No, 38 Park Row, to-day obtained from Justice Clarke in the Supreme Court a tempo- rary injunction restrainings the, Board of Coroners from auditing, sighing or certifying any pay-roll containing. the name of Dr. Albert T. Weston as Coro ner's physician or from in any way rec- ognizing him as Coroner's physician. Lawyer Gilbert represents ‘Theodore Crohn. ‘The complaint was not, filed in Sourt,” nor Is there anything to sho: who the plaintiff Ise mi Lawyer Gilbert declares that the plain- tuff says he is acting on behalf of a doctor who stands high on the clivil- service list, and who thinks that he could obtain Dr. Weston's position if it were declared Vacant. He declined to divulge the doctor’s name at present Dr. Weston, according to Mr. Gilbert, was appointed by the last Board of Coroners, and under appointment by them his term expired on Jan. 1, 1902, Joseph claims the ele: ot the clety, There they ——=_—___ OUSTED BY RICHARDS, WASHINGTGON, Sept. 17.—Commis- stoner Richards, of the General Land Ofice, has dismissed W. E. Murphy, Chief’ Clerk of the office of the Sur: veyor-General for Arizona, for official ir regularities. nation before sale at a greatly reduced price. REDERICK LOESER CO. AUTER CO... refused The Chicf Clerk of the nounced that no definite announcement would be made of the result of the re- count. He did not explain why such an announcement would not be made. ———— HELD PRISONERS BY STORM. Lack of accommodations at the office Health Department street, Brooklyn, forced yesterday hun- walting in line to have thelr children vaccinated, to take shelter from the storm in the assembly hall of the Long Island Historical So- Pierrepont and Clinton streets. were practically prisoners dreds of mothers, RETIREMENT IS | USED WALSH ——— Precinct Commander Accused | of Making False Entry on, Makes Application Rejected. Edward Walsh, of the made an applica- tion for retirement to-day, which was Commissioner Greene for the reason thatethe pre- cinct commander has charges pending ation, by A week ago Deputy Commissioners Piper and Davis descended upon the Bronx and found the Captain according to the station blotter, he was there, under It was although, to thia effect. fatse, se! RECOUNT OF PRIMARY VOTES. Board of Elections Takes Up Rush- Mulaueen Contest. The clerks in the Board of Elections to-day commenced the recount in the vote of the Democratic primary ta che Twenty-ninth Assembly District. was done at the r Rush, who asserts t J. Mulqueen, leader by’ a small majority. the ction by 43 votes. they are admitted . Bo as to attend to all app! cants the hours for vaccination ha been extended from 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. and a platoon, of to find their leader, half an hour to locate the Cap- uest_ of Thomas BE. at he has defeated Democratlc Mulqueen Board an- CUunton away This NG, SEPTEMBER 17, 190%; ssreeers. Blt BUILDING 1 oft a brie! was e no) A TUMBLES DOWN Flat-House in Course of Con-|?°!! struction at Madison and| Rutgers Streets Collapses, Burying Workmen in Ruins. mi for the jan) It the! buth Ing ned @ scattered through rs. anneared that five or six of the men peed to be in @ position in which were ‘protected by falling beams debris was held suspended above STRUCTURE MADE WEAK ¢ BY THE GREAT GALE. 1 floor it hap) Firemen and Policemen Extri- cate Victims of the Disaster, but It Is Believed There Was No Loss of Life. and A dozen persons were injured in the collapse of a five-story tenement house in course of construction at Rutgers and Madison streets this afternoon. That most of them were not killed was little short of miraculous. Some were buried under the wreckage for more than an hour. It Is not vet certain that there may not be bodies under the ruins, but the workmen in the building have been accounted for, and if any persons were killed they were passers: by. The following are known to have deen hurt: THE INJURED. COMMISKEY, WILLIAM, twenty-six years old, No, 216 East Bighty-ninth street; lacerated scalp, possible frac- ture of skull; Gouveneur Hospital. LACROFFIE, CAMILLE, No. 98 Eliza- beth street; head and back contused and cut; Gouveneur Hospital. LEVEIN, JOSEPH, No, 312 eneral contusions, injuries; Gouverneur Hospital. MINEHATA, FRANCESCA, — eyes gouged, hed cut and body mangled; Gouveneur Hospital. NORIA, VINCENO, No. 7 Elfzabeth street; fractured ribs, internal inju- ries; will dle; Gouveneur Hospital. SOULTZ, F., No. 3 Monroe street; cut ‘and bruised about head and body; may die; Gouverneur Hospital. SAFFIA, SALVATORE, No. 107 El'za- beth street; chest and ribs crushed and head cut; Gouverneur Hospital. SOFLA, BESSIE, No. 9% Elizabein street; cut on face and head; Gouver- neur Hospital. FINKLESTEIN, BENJAMIN, Monroe street; scalp wound. MORRIS, JAMES, No. 30 Monroe street; scalp wound. SALVATOR, FREDERICK, Monroe street; scalp wound. Two unconscious men, probably fatally injured; Gouverneur Hospital. Benjamin Rubenstein, of No. 227 West One Hundred and Fifteenth street, the owner of the building, and Frank Besceher, foreman in charge for Wein- stein & Greenblatt, of No. 227 Madison street, were arrested and taken to Es- sex Market Court. Charges of criminal neglect were preferred against them. Both of them aver that the building was being put up according to specifi- cations approved by the Department of work was in- ither knew the T. Smith, of the Cherry Interna! | No. 18 No, % Buildings, and that t spected every day. name of the inspecto Chief Inspector W Department of Buildl reached the scene soon after the accident and took charge of the work of safeguarding the rescuers. He said that to gutward ap pearances the job was a filrisy plece of Work. He did not know the inspector been detailed to look after it. “omeiskey, one of the in- jured, had a remarkable es trom for hours, as it was impossible to reach the Health Office, half a block away, without being drenched. The public school regulations require all pupils to show eertificates of vacci- to Special Sale of PIANOLAS Exchanged for Metrostyle Pianolas. The invention of the Metrostyle Pianola and its enthusiastic reception has resulted in the exchange of a large number of the regular or’ “ standard ’” Pianolas for this later and improved instrument. The Metrostyle Pianola not only maks it possible for anyone to correctly play the piano, but also enables even the most unskilled to interpret a compcsi- tion exactly as a musician would, Additional importance has been attached to it from the fact that many of the best known living musicians have indicated their interpretations cn the music prepared for the Metrostyl!e Pianola. ‘The Pianolas which have been exchanged for the Metrostyle Pianola have all been carefully examined and put in thorough order and are now offered for They are in all respects practically the same as those sold to-day without the Metrostyle, and carry the same guarantee as new instruments. With the Pianolas will be included a number of Aeolians and Orchestrelles, which have been exchanged for higher priced instruments. at a material reduction from the usual prices, and are alao guaranteed. This sale began Monday, September 14, and will last two weeks only. The price of these Pianolas during this Special Sale will be $200, subject to a discount of |1O per cent. for cash or $180. Regular Pianola $250. Metrostyle Pianola $300. chasable by moderate payments at a slightly advanced price. Ghe Acolian Company. cape death. He was on a ladder, descending from the roof to the top floér, when the building collapsed and slid clear to the ground in the wreckage. Rumors that a child who was passing had beta killed could not be verified. The cause of the collapse is ascribed sliced off. From the ‘appearance of the| thom. rulns the bottom gave way first. to persons passing on the street. 01 Ks and timbers as they settled down serves: ton, en in the prisoned. The work was extremely A stiff wind and a drivin a plece of overhanging drop on the pile of wreckage below, causing a general scramble from the they now displayi Boys’ and ¥ none of The Baeex | rlammer. ri A Market Court. befor Bacher, the foi mason work, was held in $1 examination next Tui Loppina and Jacobson, oners, were paroled for at the same tme. Bacher :was out by Rubenstein. No Preliminary Warning. here were no preliminary warnings the men inside the building or the ‘The end leces all of the he house that fell went to . The roar and rumble heard for blocks rmous crowd collecte fire alarm was turned in and the from nearby stations were ed. The first to arrive were the cemen from the Madison street sta~ who went to work with the fire- seing away of the debris the purpose of rescuing those im- ground and an BILLY KEILEY NOT ARRES' Young Man Had No Connection Shooting of Keyes. — Dental ts made of the repert: in nection with the shooting of William Keyes at the East River Hotel | Billy Keiley was arrested at the of Mrs. Keyes, Keiley says he was a friend of and happened to be in the heighbortio at the time of the shooting. . When reached Keyes's side Mrs. Keyes there. At her request Kelley took Jewelry out of Keyes’s clothing handed It to his wife. The police tained Kelley as a witness, but rele him after explanations had been hazardous. rain made w and then retaining wall swa umber would ger point. was while the men were taking ir lunch at the noon hour that the ding caved in, Owing to the threa= Weather signs mny had Inside for protection. the re- They various * The Latest Productions for Fall in Misses’ and Children’s Dresses, Suits and Skirts, ES Priced Especially Low for Friday and Saturday. CHILDREN’S RUSSIAN DRESSES—Of blue hair-lined che- bs 7 viot, Gibson effect, trimmed with gilt buttons, sizes 6 to 12 years. MISSES’ SEPARATE SKIRTS—Of blue, black and brown), cheviot, the new flare model, trimmed with straps and self cov- ered buttons. Lengths, 35, 37, 39 inches y MISSES' “JUNIOR” SUITS—Of new fall mannish materials, fr front, fitted back, with 2 side plaits and belt, sizes 14 to 17 years... $ MISSES‘ SUITS—Of blue and black cheviot, long coats, bode sie * front and cape, sizes 14 to 16 years...scesseeee-seteesee cece S MISSES’ SUITS—Of blue and red zibeline, long coats, cape, trimmed with black cloth, sizes 14 and 16 years... Boys’ and Young Men’s. Suits, (Third Floor.) This department has been very much enlarged ing a very large and comprehensive oung Men’s wearing apparel. Correct Fall Styles at Special Prices s For Friday and Saturday, Boys’ Norfolk Suits, with an extra pair of pants (@ actly like cut), of all-wool cassimeres; tweeds and navy blue chevioty sizes 7 to 16", 0 years. Value $5.75; at.. aie $3. i Boys’ Sailor Suits, of all-wool navy blue < : trimmed with soutache braid, sizes 4 to 10 years. Value $4.50; at....+0....+-+ Young Men's Long Pants Suits, of all-woc meres, worsteds, tweeds, navy blue and black: iots, sizes 15 to 20 years. Valuc $9.50; at. ei Boys’ School Golf Caps, of mixtures and serge; also Yacht Caps, of navy blue serge,‘ all sizes. Value 48c.; special at... to th fact that the building has been tothe ina rush, and the wind storm yesterday forced the rain into the fnortar ‘between the bricks until they jad practically no su} Inspection rt of the walls remaining intact shows gaps and crevices, indicating that the mortar has been soaked to the constat- ency of mush. "The whole Rutgers street front of the building, which had been built up to the seventh story, sHd into Itself Ike an opera hat and plied up wreckage by the ton. Almost half the house was These will be sold Pur- ABOLIAN HALL, 362 Fifth Ave. 20 AMM STAMPED ON A SHOE Ul MEANS STANDARD OF MER Let parents bring their children to us for’ footwear. Besides getting the best Shoes, our are the lowest of any house in the city. | Boys’ Satin Calf| Boys’ Harbard Jr, Box and “Armor Clad’”| Calf, Black Lace, sizes 11 105}4|Calf and ye 50 Yack Kid, e sizes 11 to 534 Child’s and Misses’ Black Kid, Batton and Lace, hand-sewed| welt, sises 6 to 1014 and 11 to 2, Child’s and Misses” “Trotters,’” Batton and Lace, sises 6 to 10\4 $1,235 Sises 1! to 31,50