ATLANTIC SEABOARD

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 73, 23 September 1938, Page 9

ATLANTIC SEABOARD

157 PERSONS KILLED

GREAT DAMAGE DONE

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received September 23, 10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, September 22. A West Indian hurricane struck the Atlantic seaboard today from New Jersey to the Connecticut Valley, leaving 157 persons dead and doing 100,000,000 dollars' worth of damage. Thirty persons on the Long Island Sound ferry are missing. A 70-mile-an-hour wind, with torrential rains, flooded New York, chiefly Long Island, endangering many populous communities. Eoads were destroyed In many places and communication and power lines are down. New York City's electric supply lines were broken, and the central portion of the city was without light during the night Many radio stations are out of commission. Hundreds were injured through collapsing buildings, objects tossed about by the floods, and falling trees. There were numerous fires. Tidal waves struck Providence and Boston, sweeping 1000 feet inland and doing great damage. The East River in New York inundated the • power plants, cutting off the subways. The liner Queen Mary has delayed her sailing a day. OPERATION BY CANDLELIGHT^ The most serious disaster on Long Island was at Westhampton, wher» eight persons are dead and 50 missing. A hundred summer cottages owned by wealthy people were swept out to sea. At Lowell, Masachusetts, doctors removed a boy's eye by candlelight when the power failed. In the Middletown, Connecticut, State Hospital there was a scene of horror when insane patients rioted at the height of the hurricane. At Forest Hills, the national lawn tennis singles tournament was postponed for a day to permit the court* to dry after the rain. The number of persons killed in NewEngland was 104. Long Island's south shore was devastated ,and 12 persons were killed. Fire Island was smashed by a 40ft tidal wave and two people were killed. Fire followed the storm in several Connecticut cities. In the storm area 3000 people were taken to hospital and 3000 rendered homeless.