The News-Herald from Franklin, Pennsylvania • Page 8

THE NEWS-HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2.,, 193b. HURRICANE PLAYS HAVOC IN EAST COAST AREA HERE'S SAMPLE OF GALE'S WORK HIGHLIGHTING STORM DAMAGE Bennington: Wallom-sac river flooded. Awl. Tvt. N.V ATLANTIC MASS.

Hadley: Population of 3000 evacuated. Cape Cod: Extremely hard hit; death toll, property damage run hiKh. Springfield: Thousands driven from flood-menaced homes. Hartford: Hundreds forced from homes by hurricane and Connecticut river flood. Providence: Downtown engulfed by tidal wave.

PAGE EIGHT 1 Kr 3 SW Vi. lp CONN. New York City: Sections of Manhattan and Bronx in darkness for hours; storm played havoc with All possible forces mobilized for relief work in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. transportation. New London: Million-do 1 1 a fire raged through downtown.

rJ 1 OCEAN Long Island: Battered by huge waves; hundreds of dwellings and boats washed away. West Hampton: Many wealthy families wiped out. "2 A The toll of known dead mounted to nearly in 4S hours after ural ing hurricane winds and unprecedented floods swept over the area in the above map. Swinging abruptly out Into the At lantic after making a threiit-ening sally at the Florida coastline and Mien wheeling savagely inland opposite the New Jersey roust, the brought the worst wind and flood disaster in the history of the pii stern seaboard to the sections shown here. The map highlights the.

places where the record-breaking storm struck hardest. FLOOD PLUS HURRICANE EQUALS BRIDGE COLLAPSE I'linri. Scptn' simps, irri -in. I piling cnniihlcrl nintcliwoixl wlicii tins tossed li wind und into tln docks u. New Iondon.

to this wcro roiniiion along tho t'onnwltctit coiislline nftcr tbv 'd liiirncimc sin.islicd its wny across thn mirtlwnM dcaili nun behind. BOATS SMASHED ALL ALONG SHORELINE NATIONAL GUARD ON DUTY 5" if a Ii0-t(v70 stream Weakened by rising flood waters, this railroad bridge at North Haven, was no match for the mile hurricane, which ripped into New England. As pictured above, massive girders collapsed into the beneath. The lone rail lies across what was once the railroad road'bed. TUGBOAT DUMPED ON BRIDGE SUPPORT mMmmwWm mmmmm Lashed to a svetlnu fury swept up the KasMern feahnard into New York and on over -New Kntfhml.

the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent waters, surged across Long H'iand and wroeked hundreds of boats-. In the plmto a'lwne, a boat and houseihoat are driven agalnft a sea wall at Port Washington. 'by pounding waves in Long island Sound i in thp alfn ro pivvcnl liHitmir the of tlie (vv England catastrophe, state sovernnicnls ordered oni the National fluaid. riciured here are two etiards-men on duty at a jewelry ytore in tin; uutld-fanioiis Note the man leaping to safety. watch manufactnrinf: cflwr of Walthaiii, Mass.

GIANT TREE UPROOTED, CRUSHES CAR 9' Path of Storm tmm. A. litvi 1 A J. This pioture from the New England flood front shows one of the strangest pranks played by the hurricane. A tugboat has been lifted biwlily by the wind and deported INSIDE the low-lying crib that supports a swing bridge at Providence, R.

I. The water at Providence rose three feel above, the level of the great flood of 1815. At the Mercy of Atlantic Hurricane 111 -1 'i I an mi Mineiila. Island. N.

were ill tree ne tin-: urea tus New LngJand. garden inaich sucks by tl that swept over Long Island and i 1 Heat still intact aln.it the tree WHALE OF A HLOW LEVFLS WHALING CENTER This map shows the approximate path of the hurricane that ravaged the northeastern coast of the United States. Originating in the Bahama area, the storm headed for Florida, veered out to the ocean, then struck along New Jersey and on up the coast. Although the full force of the gale spent itself over the sea, the part that struck Long Island and New England was believed the worst storm in the history of that section ysvs. Ss JB-sSSM-fsS 0V, -ssss Xf-j VSVJS-.

W. Xv.v We 1 sv s. s- SS' V. Two of the hundreds of craft smashed ashore on the eastern seaboard by hurricane and tidal waves ar pictured above at Port Washington, Long Island. Scores died and hundreds were missing in the storm which struck hardest along the southern Long Island shore where mountainous waves and furioui winds swept away houses by the block.

fells a graphic story of tne havoc wrought the backwash of lumber in the shipways in London is a historic New England whaling; This air view of New London. showing buildings unroofed and wreckage strewn everywhere, in the New England sta'es. Kjre followed flood and blazing ruins run be seen at the right- center. Note foreground. With the de.u toll innunting huurly.

the number of missing was a matter of guesswork..