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Show STORM STREWS NEW YORK CITY WITH WRECKAGE New York, February 2-. Tbo DC-mile DC-mile gale that has hold tho eastern seaboard from tho Carolinas north to Nova Scotia In its ley graspffor tho past twenty-four hours, swept out to sea tonight, leaving behind a new record for wind velocity In the east and n Hat of property damago that will reach Into tho millions. Tho low-pressure low-pressure nrca Is now central over Quebec, and the local weather bureau bure-au promises diminishing winds and n slightly falling temperature. Tho great galo left this city littered litter-ed with tbo mlns ot toppled chimneys, chim-neys, unroofed homes nnd broken electric wires. Tho Great Whlto Way Broadway's show placo from Thirty-third Thirty-third street to Fifty-ninth Is strown with hundreds of electric signs mid tonight Is as dimly lighted as tho main street "of a country town. I Menace to Life Great squares ot plate glass broken from tho show windows by tljo galo He In' heaps In tho gutters, whole blocks are without a single electric light, whllo wrecking crows arq working work-ing over tho roped-off streets to frco tho buildings of tho damaged signs that menace pedestralns as they swing In tbo flfty-mllo gale that Is still sweeping tho city. In Long Island Sound and Now York harbor thousands of men aro busy repairing the damage dono by (ho gigantic waves that battered tho wharves and shipping, and the sound liners which rnn tor a safo anchorago whon tho galo approached Its height have advised tholr officers that they will get under way sometime this evening ev-ening enrouto for their various destinations. des-tinations. Tho list of those Injured by falling dobrls Is expected to reach a score, while the property damago to shipping and tho city will probably probab-ly bo well over a million. The galo reached south as tar na Savannnh, Ga., whero reports from tho interior of the middle southern states tell of wrecked homes, ruined crops and fruit trees, crippled telegraph tele-graph sorvlses and delayed malls. Great Damage Done Atlantic City reports $50,000 dam-ago. dam-ago. Houses wore unroofed, chimneys blown down, windows broken nnd tho board walk undermined In places. Reports from other places In south Jersoy ludlcato heavy damngo to orchards or-chards and farms. Similar reports havo been received from Delaware |