Show Seven Deaths on Atlantic Coast J NEW YORK Oct 2 26 AP A A Continued on page S. S STORMS SWEEP EASTERN COAST AND ALABAMA Continued from page 1 1 disastrous Sunday gale gate swept the middle and north Atlantic states An hour an rain bearing wind caused seven se deaths I and much property damage In five five states At Woburn oburn Mass houses were shattered and troops were called out Ocean and costal shipping was demoralized The fatalities were New York City Expectant City Expectant mother moth moth- er dragged from fifth story window v by wind-whipped wind clothes line Mother and child died after CaesarIan Caesar- Caesar Ian operation Two fishermen drowned In a a. capsized motorboat off ort Rockaway Point TREE KILLS CHILD Baltimore Child Baltimore Child killed by falling tree Paterson N N. J. J J. Child Child killed by y falling failing brick walls Woburn Mass National Mass National guardsman guards guards- man killed by falling failing tree tre wile while repairing repairing repairing re re- re- re pairing his automobile Several towns were In darkness last night and oth others rs were cut oft off from wire communication Greatest damage apparently was in Woburn Mass where Mayor I Thomas H n. Duff Durr Duffy has issued an appeal appeal appen ap- ap peal pen I to contractors to cease their J regular building b t work rk and concentrate concentrate concen concen- I on repairing shattered homes bomes homes Mayor Curley of Dost Boston n has telephoned telephoned telephoned tele tele- phoned a relief offer MANY HOUSES DAMAGED With Hh BOO houses unroofed or with walls wails caved ed In and the streets a a. amass amass mass of tangled wire and wreckage looting began In tat t at city a n resIdential residential resI- resI and manufacturing suburb of or Boston and u a national guard company was called out to keep or- or or of der Two women are in a hospital one seriously injured by the falling spire of the Unitarian church The British entry for today's I race narrowly wreckage Seafaring men in New York said I 1 it was the worst storm known in years The two-masted two schooner Columbia was sav saved d by the co coast coastguard coastguard st guard cutter Raritan in New York harbor less than feet from the rocks of oC Governors Governor's ISIan t isian-t after both her anchors were torn away The tug De Da returned to port after losing In the storm a dry drydock drydock drydock dock she had In tow Two women and fifteen men w were re 1 rescued by a coast gua guard d patrol off ort Sandy Hook alter d. d ait drung ing for hours hours' on a n string of t tw l h empty barges which were abandoned TRAFFIC th b. Forty feet feet of of shed over a Brooklyn Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook Brook- lyn elevated railway station were torn off the roof root of a a. story five-story tene tenement ent was peeled off ote and a 24 inch smokestack weighing several tons fell Cell from Crom the top of ot a a. five five- story office building without ing lag any one although heavy traffic had to be bo detoured afterward Trolley and other traffic was r re reported reported re- re ported halted or delayed In a 0 score of or places in the metropolitan and suburban areas arens Personal Injuries and proper property damage were reported from Crom Bayonne Bayonne Bay- Bay onne N N. J. J J. J and elsewhere in New Jersey Philadelphia and other parts of Pennsylvania anla and from towns in In New ew York state and east to Boa Bos Dos ton NEWPORT K It 1 I. I Oct 26 AP AP- AP The st steamer amer Commonwealth queen of the 1 Fall all river line fleet became disabled last night on her run from Fall Fail River to New York She was f Med ed to Anchor between Point Judith Ju Judith Ju- Ju dUh and Watch Hill when she lost lost 2 several ev ral from Crom a a. paddle wheel Arrangements were made to tow her to Newport and put her BOO I 1 passengers aboard a n. special train for New York I Captain Robinson of the Commonwealth Commonwealth Commonwealth Com Com- radioed shore stations for assistance last night A tug put out from New London Conn I t and the revenue cutters Acushnet and Red Wing also went to tu her as- as a lWI 1 I Owing to heavy seas still running from last nights night's gale gate of off ott Watch Vatch Ii Hill ll officials here did not expect the Commonwealth would dock be before before be- be I fore 11 o'clock The They were In Informed Informed informed In- In formed that she was safely In tow I of ot the Commissioner which was slightly delayed in reaching the scene by inability to gather her crew Immediately at New London when the call call for aid came The Th i Acushnet and am R rt Wing stood by bY j until the tug arrived I IThe The Commonwealth Is tons gross and specializes In overnight passenger traffic between New York and Boston the pa passengers engers travelIng travelIng traveling travel- travel Ing between Boston and Fall lall River Riverby Riverby by train |