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Show WT , - juhl LAST EDITION 4 P M. mmi SEEK VICTIMS OF STORM 6 A RELATIVES STAND VIGIL ALL I NIGHT AT DOCK TO SCAN FACES I ! OF DEAD BROUGHT FROM WATERS I (Powerful Searchlights Play Upon Bay as Ghastly I Quest Goes on But Tide Apparently Has Carried Bodies of Loved Ones From Near Shore NEW YORK. June 12 (By the Associated Press.) The death I toll of the brief but terrific hurricane that swooped down on the metropolitan area late Sunday passed the sixty mark today with indications that the total number of dead might go much higher More than 100 were injured. Daybreak this morninc; found hundreds of parents, children and relatives still standing vigil at the dock at City Island, waiting the arrival cf police boats which during the hours of darkness had searched the water of Long Island Sound for additional victims of Sunday's terrific stoim Powerful searchlights played over the water as the ghastly quest went on, but the swift tide apparently had borne away the bodies not recovered last night and early today the police reported that the list of known dead had not been augmented Thousands of rowboats and launches' dotted th? sound off City Island k'ust ' before ihe breaking of the storm; ; when it had passed, the water was1 fitrewn with overturned crff. and the buildings on short resembled a bat tie-torn village In No Man's Land. Many p irtlt - hurrj in - i if. t i.enpif struggling In the water, hut dared not stop for fear of cap-slslng cap-slslng their own craft. The rescue work started immediate. ly, but darkness and the p.inlc-itrlck-en crowds hindered the labor of tho volunteer life savers. Property damage estimated at from iuiiount was done by the tornado. STORM si DDEN, The storm followed a day of In-tn-' beat and was as sudden as It H Clazon's point, a pleasure ground near City Island, was In the direct path of ihe hurricane. A ferrls wheel, heavily freighted v th children and j oun people had i begun i" revolve with Its passen-gi passen-gi rs when the wind struck It LH So sudden is the '.ansltlorr from 8 bright June ky to Inky clouds that the nien In charge of the wheel could ggf not stop it and dlfchnrge the people ggj in the cars before the top of the wheel torn away and tho remainder ggf crashed to the ground, a tangled skelr ggl of steel. I Dozens were burled In the wreck. 51 I N I II HTIM DIES. Six bodies were later taken out and ggf than two score were attended ggf by ambulance surgeons. gag A seventh victim died this morning gig Frail buildings were crashed by tho gig j mighty weight of the wind, eleotrlo I fl 1 wir. - w i r- torn away and in the dark- gjg in ss and torrential rains the rescuer gj nil Jo little until the atortu had gfg I subsided. Hysterical men and women, tear- geg Ing bllndl ai the wreckage, hindered gfg rather than helped th workers en gfg gaged in lifting ruins of the wheel gag Till E s i PROOTED. M uc:e trees in Central Park wort gig Uprooted and tossed across the drive-ways drive-ways rive people were hurt when gfg the wind blew out great plate glass Jlr s fronts of iores along Broadway and scattered haberdashery and clothing H along the street. Jj aa In Brooklyn lichtnlng struck a street car and knocked six passenger ei unconscious. Electric Mens along the White Wa fim serin, ri special targets of the cyclonlo fVf w ind- A Iiiim. i-n extolling tho vlt gg tues of an automobile tiro, knocked fVfl loose from its moorings, toppled ovei gf Into a skylight, carried a smaller &lgi wg with It In its plunge and started a flr Vf from disconnected wiring. inn RETURNS BODIES. Tho death list leaped ahead when an Incoming tide returned 18 bodies that hud been swept out to eea last isfl night. H City Island, haven for Sunday plea- gg sure seekers and amateur fishermen, fVf was the hardest hit point In tho met wg ropolltan area, but casualties, mostly gg by drowning, were reported from IB many other points The beach at City l!;'.nc todav presented a deso-late deso-late spectacle, Several hundred per-sons, per-sons, relatives of the missing, worn by hysteria, waited In little groups among the wreckage on the sand for some word of ths fute of their loved ' gfgl gj Marine squad police, although x- fgfl haustcd by their all nlgnt vigil, con- fKfl tlnued their crul.-e. ke.y'tng a sharp lookout for additional bodies. gem |
