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Hurricane Kills 16 in Borough, Long Island DAMAGE IS SET AT 2 MILLION Hold Former Queens Man In Fatal Stabbing I Christopher Pannone. 23, for- of Queens, was held without bail in Felony Court on the charge of having fatally stabbed George Fatum, 49. of 297 Stagg St. De- STORM-HIT LIRR GETTING BACK TO NORMAL SERVICE inr With hundreds of crewmen of the Long Island Railroad working des-; stabbing followed a quarrel in front neratelv to remove trees from the of 775 Grand St. on Sept.

19. 1943. light of way, officials of the road announced that they are getting occasional trains through to the Rock-aways and service has ten restored Continued from Page 1 mast pierced the pavilion roof. At least 20 sailboats were sunk three showing upturned bottoms and 17 showing only masts above the surface of the water. Four small motor cruisers were beached.

Tllley's Pavilion, a private bathing establishment, was completely to Long Beach, after being cut olf last night. Power, signal and wire trouble I COLLEGE 8HOP BROOKLYN! EAGLE, FRI SEPT. 1 5, 1944 3 COLLEGE SHOP ii are still causing delays on some washed away, and the sea wall was ines. High waters In Jamaica Bav on badly damaged In several places. A the route to the Rockaways and over the Reynolds Channel Long Beach grove of 100 old sycamore trees trestle accounted lor the tieups.

On other lines of the L. I. R. trains etood at an angle ail the trees be Ing at a 45-degree slant. Trains Halted ran throughout the night but were hampered by trees that had fallen across tracks.

The approaches to the Mill Creek bridge between Southold and Greenport were reported washed out. Long Island Railroad electric trains east of Jamaica were halted and steam trains ran hours late. Railroad officials said that service was back "almost to normal" at 7 a.m. Service on the Babylon line on the South Shore was interrupted The storm battered some 750 miles of the Atlantic coast with winds of after 9 p.m. when fallen trees on the line between Babylon and 1 I i Wantagh had to be removed to re up to 80 miles and hour and tor rer.tial rains.

store switch and signal operations. All day yesterday the Weather Bu-1 grJ pn had spnt out ureent storm hl hrre trains were sent out from In Babylon between 10:58 and 5:56 a.m. Terrific winds caused intermittent delays. Three iegularly scheduled earlv- FIRE ISLAND REFUGEES Residents of Fire Island, advised to evacuate to mainland before the hurricane hit, were transported to Bay Shore in ferries, private boats and coast guard vessels. They are shown boarding the Point o' Woods ferry.

morning Long Island Railroad trains running between Riverhead and New York City were canceled. i These trains are used mostly by war pany marshaled all available equip workers traveling to and from war plants In Farmingdale and East Farmlngdale. Surprise-toloTraincoat in At Napeague, between Amagansctt and Montauk, about two miles of track on the Montauk division were washed out. by the high tide in Gar-' diner's Bay. Hegosi'Paratwill" warnings, and resulting precautions taken were given credit today for the relatively light loss of life and property damage.

Despite warnings and precautions, many small boats were torn from their moorings, ocean front properties were damaged and orchard and other unharvested crops were ruined. Much of the total damage, both on Long Island and elsewhere, consisted of crop spoilage. Most dramatic of the storm precautions taken consisted of evacuating residents living in the path of the storm. 100 Families Evacuated The coast guard evacuated more than 100 families from low-lying Fire" Island, off Bay Shore, south of central Long Island. Several hundred year-round residents, however, remained on the island, which was half inundated by a persistently rising tide at the height of the storm last night.

No Injuries or casualties were reported today, however. At Llndenhurst, 25 families were evacuated from Herr Park, on the Gold kid on them thar.cdges of oui Collar-Button' Dress See vhat happens to a quiet little button-fronter dress when it strikes cold it's the date-dress diV covery of the season! Ellen Kaye put glitter-edge piping of gold kid on the yoke-pockets, the belt, the collar-buttoned front. And a rhinestone in each collar-button! Black, brown, purple, sizes 7 to RH-RTH- FLOOR -n tfrr At Wainscott, a freight car on a siding blew over during the on to the main line tracks of the I ment and linemen to repair telephone lines. Utility companies of the Albany area sent their repair; crews to the New York City-Long Island area for repair work here. Westhampton Beach, which was the worst hit Long Island community in the 1938 hurricane, escaped with property damage of not more than $25,000 and no injuries.

Bay Ridge residents complained that their section of Brooklyn seemed' to have taken the worst beating in the borough. Pavements were ripped up, and four out of five streets were blocked by fallen trees. It the worst storm Bay Ridge has known within the memory of its oldest inhabitant. Fire Commissioner Walsh today assigned every fireman with an elementary knowledge of electricity to Montauk division. At East Hampton, 1 tree leu across the tracks, com Sing in tlic-rain colors shock-j ing pink, chartreuse, peacock green, purple, beige, shiny-si Je-1 uut-bUik for our raincoat of paratrooper sturdy Paratwil! In sizes from 10 to 18 $17.95 COLLEGE SHOP FOURTH FLOOR pletely holding up traffic from Bridgehampton to Montauk.

i Brooklyn subways were not great ly affected during the storm, with I. R. T. reporting normal serv ice and the B. M.

T. service suffering only slightly. 4) A ground insulator on the third rail over the Manhattan Bridge tied up West End, Sea Beach and B. M. T.

bridge travel early today, and trains tne work of putting grounded fire alarm boxes back Into working South Shore of Long Island. Most were rerouted through the Montague St. tunnel. order. The entire fire alarm system in the with the exception only Traffic was suspended for some of Manhattan, was grounded by time on the 14th St.

line between of them were taken by local police to the St. John's Lutheran Church annex. Also at Llndenhurst, members of a military unit were evacuated after tents and wooden living quarters in which they were encamped were destroyed by the storm. Atlantic Ave. and Canarsie.

storm water last night and this morning 2,500 boxes were still out of order as against 1,500 that had been put back into service. Mead Says Dewey Draws War Into Campaign Fight The Long Island Railroad reported that its chief difficulties, causing The storm passed out to sea near delays, were: Inundated tracks, Bouth Weymouth, Mass, early to Washington, Sept. 15 (U.R) James M. Mead, N. trees blown across the tracks, power day.

It had battered half a dozen cities and many towns and villages, from Beaufort, N. to Boston, on charged last night that Governor wires down. War Plants Closed Many war plants on Long Island, Dewey, in asking for more supplies for Gen. Douglas MacArthur, was drawing the conduct of the war Its way. 150 Are Injured as well as in Connecticut, Massa into the Presidential campaign.

chusetts and Rhode Island, diS' Besides the dead the number of Mead said that Dewey previously pensed with night work last night. Injured was tentatively set at 150, nad expressed confidence in the chiefly because of transportation leadership of Army Chief of Staff The storm was the worst since the one which killed 682 persons, dlmculties facing employes. At the Jamaica station of the Gen. George C. Marshall and Admiral Ernest J.

King, conmmander- mostly in New England, in 1938. Long Island yesterday afternoon a A land and sea area of about 500 ln-chief of the fleet. loudspeaker announcement was RAIN AND WIND IN THEIR HAIR Three brave girls lean into teeth of torrential rain and gale as borough felt first whip of northward-rushing hurricane. miles in diameter was covered by the moving hurricane, which was most violent at the center and made again and again: "Workers of Republic Aviation Corporation. The plant will be closed Candidacy of Pinto Indorsed by Fawcett Former Supreme Court Justice faded out at the fringes.

tonight. Report tomorrow as usual." Publisher Seek Divorce Reno, Sept 15. (U.R) Plerre- In the city the lash of the storm Interrupted subway, bus and other Lewis It. Fawcett today indorsed transportation. County Judge Nicholas H.

Pinto, vont Lsham Prentice, publisher of Republican and American Labor Police closed Prospect Park because of the danger from falling Time Magazine. haS filed a divorce Rain-Soaked Cameraman's 'Pants Relief Falls Short Dan Fox, Brooklyn Eagle photographer, got his trousers so soaked, covering the storm in Canarsle party nominee, to succeed himself trees and flying tree branches. The retired jurist has agreed to serve as honorary chairman of the suit against his wife, Mildred Selcher Prentice, of New charging extreme mental criielty. Hundreds of telephone calls came to Brooklyn police headquarters reporting trees felled and live wires nonpartisan committee seeking the that he had to have dry replace election of Judge Pinto. Old Fire Bell Calls Aid to Pair Felled By Gas in Storm Sea Cliff, Sept.

15. U.f9 An old fire bell, out of use for many years, summoned volunteer firemen today to the aid of Sea Cliff couple overcome in their home by gas from a storm-broken pipe. Authorities, notified by a neighbor that Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Purcell were unconscious in their home at down.

ments to carry on. He appealed to Some 10 miles of Belt Parkway Brooklyn Red Cross workers for mas for a time under water and "pants relief." No man on the job police closed it down for the night. The Fire Department responded to had a spare pair. (l TINE tURS jfr v. v.

"4 i 1 I I i I o4n I I Ntl 35 false fire alarms touched off by But the Red Cross came to Fox's short circuits in fire alarm boxes caused by the sloshing rain. Army and other planes at rescue with women's slacks! The Eagle photographer put 'em on, but they were too tight. Undaunted, he kept working with his shirt tail Guardia Field for which hangar 183 Maple found the towns fire alarm system had been knocked space could not be found were flown as tne storm approached nearer New York yesterday, to safer fields out by the hurricane and summoned Inland. the emergency squad with the antiquated fire house bell. Purcell was pronounced dead after a pul- motor failed to revive him.

His hanging out. Work Around the Clock To Restore Electricity With Its augmented repair crews working on a continuous day and night basis, the Brooklyn Edison Company announced today that It will be tomorrow night or Sunday morning before electric service will be, restored In the homes and business establishments of all Its customers throughout Brooklyn and Queens. Even radio broadcasting was Interrupted. Radio Station WEAF of the National Broadcasting Company iwas off the air from 7:49 to 8:12 p.m. because of transmission station failure.

Station WHN was also forced off. The CBS (Columbia Broadcasting. System) short-wave listening post was still not operating today. Newport Beach Wrecked wife was said to have a chance of recovery. The roots of two large trees, torn up by hurricane winds last night, were believed to have broken the gas pipe leading into the Purcell jStaten island BEE CI i home.

The couple apparently was overcome in their sleep. Richard Addis, 60, of Stony Brook Railway service between New York "Literally thousands are right died of Illuminating gas poisoning and Boston was restored today afternow without current and have been a. storm-caused interruption of 11, so since the storm struik here," hours. said a company spokesman. "Felled when a gas pipe supplying his home was broken by a falling tree.

At Nev-port, R. excusive Bailey's! trees which broke our lines also Beach, which was wrecked by the broke telephone wires, so that we don't know Just how many places are out of service. Apace with the 1938 hurricane and then rebuilt, was wrecked again last night. Tides flooded the bar where Newport's society used to foregather, destroyed restoration of telephone service we are receiving a continuous stream eight tennis courts and scattered 62of communications about no cur-cabanas along the beach sand. rent for lights, radios, clocks and The New York Telephone Com- refrigerators." BORO SOLDIER AMUSED BY GAUDY UNIFORMS OF COPS IN INDIA Policemen who wear bright blue uniforms with brilliant yellow trim and carry umbrellas as well as shiny yellow nkght sticks were described to Lt.

William P. Young, Bergen St. Precinct, in a letter received from his nephew, Sgt. Charles Peterson, attached to a meteorological unit in Bombay, India. Sergeant Peterson, 22, lived with his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Edmund Peterson, at 352 St. John's Place List of Storm Dead Mclaughlin, Bernard Francis, 54, Of 115-29 198th St. Albans, collapsed on the street near his home. before he entered the army about JACOBI.

JOHN. 62. of 41-14 41st He writes his uncle Thomson Hill, Queens, from, two years ago. fall down stairs. that the Bombay cops walked their MOEHRINGER, CHARLES, 77, barefoot until they became 77-80 88th Woodhaven, col-! sergeants, wnen uiey rate snoes.

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He passed this information on to his police lieutenant uncle for what it may be worth to the local force. VALENTINE, GEORGE, of West Shore Road, Roslyn, crushed between the side of a boat and a dock at Port Washington. TORSIELLO, LOUIS, 55, of 169-21 104th Jamaica, electrocution or exhaustion at 170th St. south of the. Jamaica Long Island Railroad station.

RICHARD ADDIS. 60, of Stony Brook, died of illuminating gas poisoning when gas pipe supply-lnir his home was broken bv fall The death toll In the Brooklyn-Long Island area from the hurricane Included: LAUZON, JOSEPH, 55, of 1959 Troy electrocuted when he stepped off Bergen St. trolley and touched a live wire between Nostrand and Rogers Aves. liOPPUS, ANTON, 54, of 1542 Gates electrocuted when he fell from Forest Ave. station of the B.

M. T. and came in contact with the third rail. BlIXARO, CARL 30. of 7904 16th electrocuted outside his home.

BILOTTI, ALFRED, 23, of 107 60th electrocuted when he touched a live wire crossing 60th St. RIZZO, CARMINE, 38, of Matawan, N. electrocuted trying to save Bilottl. CRAFFIGINO, JACK, 60. of 104-62 107th Richmond Hill, electrocuted outside his home.

DORG AN', ALEXANDER, 58, of 178-11 91st Jamaica, electrocuted near his home. CROUCHLEY, GEORGE, 52, of Fulton Westbury, electrocuted near his home. i Boy Burned by Live Wire Blown Down in Storm ing tree. Raymond Rinfret, 10, ot 972 74th SYLVESTER PURCELL, owner of today came in contact with a Brooklyn carpet cleaning estab-high voltage wire that had been lishment, asphyxiated in his home, 'blown down near his home by the ins Ma nie Sea cliff, bv eas storm. Knocked unconscious and he released through pipe-breakage severely burned on one hand, was taken to Harbor Hospital.

caused by storm-uprooted tree. A shipyard worker known only as "Williams," drowned at Port Washington, MAIN I FLOOR AND BRIDGE SIR1ETS, IROOKLY.N Sbjtrl to 207c FtJeral Exeiie Tax RUSSEKS FULTON WHEN OUT OF TOWN REGISTER FROM BROOKLYN.