Show New York Weather on the Rise New YORK May toThe weather today to-day was intensely hot the mercury reaching reach-ing 92 in the shade At 4 pm the clouds began to gather in the western add southern south-ern sky and soon swept tovards Jersey i and New York A tremendous gale of i wind developed and much damage was done at Burlington N J J While sweeping over tho face of that state a gale fifty miles an hour whirled up volumes of gray dust from the soil which was carried before the storm when at last it swooped down on Jersey city About sundown tho sky assumed a brassy hue and the Jersey shore was soon lost sight of The storm swept over the bay and river and was upon this city licking the streets clear of dust in a moment and drifting it again Men women and children on the streets were blinded by the sand and groped for trees or clung to fences unable to see and afraid to move at all The Tribune and Times buildings on one side of Park row were not visible from the other side wagons and cabs were overturned over-turned street car windows were broken over all was heard the continual roar of the cyclonic tempest The storm continued in this city for nearly half a hour When the rain began to fall the atmosphere was cleared and the wind calmed down Reports of damage are pouring in The Kew Era building is covered by reports from southern New York eastern Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania northern Delawar Connecticut and Massachusetts No deaths are reported ported in this city but many painful casualties are Many of the syire poles still remaining are down signs and broken las are strewed on the floor In the barber ferry boats were about well nigh helpless Flag poles were hurled to the ground and the remains of centennisl decorations bestrewed the streets The storm swept across Long island and buildings were blown down and huge piles of lumber scattered and signs carried from fastenings and hurled through the streets The ferry boat at Flushing was just approaching ap-proaching the slip this side the river when a whirlwind struck her ami turned her almost completely around and dashed her against one of the bulkheads Anumber of passengers mostly ladies were thrown prevailed with great force and great excitement |