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17 February 1917
UNCONSCIOUS ON L STATION
Found Suffering From Possible Fracture of Skull
Alexander PHYSE, 60 years old, a collector of 19 Suydam place, was found
unconscious on the L station at Reid avenue and Fulton street early this
morning and removed to St. Mary's Hospital suffering from a possible
fracture of the skull.  It is not known how he received his injuries and
detectives are making an investigation.

20 Februsray 1917
"FENCE" TO PENITENTIARY
Anthony FLORIO, 19 years old, of 234 Frost street, Brooklyn, owner of a 
junk shop at 1904 Myrtle avenue, Ridgewood, convicted of receiving stolen 
goods, was sentenced to the New York Penitentiary by Judge SMITH in the 
Queens County Court yesterday.  Automobile parts valued at $100, which had 
been stolen from the garage of Neal ANGELORO, at 188 Skillman avenue, 
Brooklyn, were found in his shop. A similar sentence was imposed upon 
Nicholas PALLADINO, 18 years old of 225 Chichester avenue, Woodhaven. 

25 October 1917
CAMP  TENTS  FALL  AS  GALE  HITS  CITY
(New York Times)

Quarters of Soldiers and Hospital Units at Mineola Blown Down in Storm.
Costly Yachts wrecked.  Wind Dislodges Bricks, Causing Minor Injuries to
Many___Outside Wire Service Impaired.

      Sweeping down the Atlantic Coast at a velocity ranging from 40 to 75
miles an hour, a northwest wind, accompanied by rain, caused many accidents
in the city early yesterday. Dislodged bricks and falling flower pots
injured many walking in the streets.
      At Camp Mills, Mineola, L.I., between forty and fifty tents were blown
down while their soldier occupants were asleep. Most of the overturned tents
belonged to officers, their square shapes catching and holding the wind. The
Y.W.C.A. tent also collapsed. Fifteen tents of the hospital unit were blown
down, and the occupants were removed to the wooden hospital nearby. The
Y.M.C.A. tent at Camp Merritt, at Dumont, N.J. was also blown over.
      Yacht clubs along the Sound suffered severely. The damage to private
craft which were blown ashore Tuesday night at the North Beach Yacht Club in
FlushingBay was estimated by Commodore Henry Dorfkirch at more than $80,000.
      Although in New York City the wind only reached a velocity of sixty
miles an hour for a few minutes during the entire day, it caused many minor
accidents in the streets. While Mrs. Lena SHAPIRO of 84 Monroe Street was
passing 255 Broome Street shortly after midnight a large flowerpot came
hurling down upon her from an upper story window sill. It struck her on the
shoulder and knocked her to the pavement. She was taken to Gouverneur
Hospital, but later was able to go home.
      During one of the few sixty-mile gusts at noon Edward BURNELL, 75
years old of 2520 Creston Avenue, the Bronx, attempted to cross the street
at the Concourse and Fordham Road. The wind lifted him from his feet and
threw him upon the pavement, spraining his left hip. He was taken to Fordham
Hospital.
      While Joseph Sabia of Saw Mill Road, Yonkers was passing 2335 Broadway
on his way to work several bricks were blown down upon him from a
half-completed building. His scalp was cut.
      When Charles Clinton, an oil producer with offices as 48 Park Place,
was descending the elevated railway steps at Park Place and Church Street
yesterday morning he slipped on the rain-soaked stairway and his scalp was
cut.
      Blinded by the wind-swept rain, many automobilists and pedestrians
failed to see each other and accidents to the latter resulted. Charles
SCHLEGEL of 526 West Twenty-ninth Street a driver for the McDermott Natural
Milk Company was crawling out from under his vehicle after having repaired
it when he was struck by the automobile of B.S. MENDELSON of 438 East
Twenty-third Street. His head was cut open.
      When Patrolman JOINER of the Morrisania Police Station went on duty in
front of Public School 35, at Morris Avenue and 163rd Street, he noticed
that the flagpole on the roof of the school-house was swaying violently in
the stiff wind. With the Principal and Janitor of the school, he took the
children from the classrooms to the top floor. Soon after the pole snapped
off and fell to the street.
      Telephone and telegraph officials said that, although the storm had
caused no damage to their wires in the city, because they are underground,
considerable damage had been done to wires outside the city.; Communication
with  a number of other cities was temporarily cut off during the day, but
in every case the trouble was rectified as quickly as possible. All the
important outside circuits were kept clear.
      The overhead feed wires of the Union  Railway, at 149th Street and
Third Avenue, were blown down during the day, and traffic was held up at
that point for twenty minutes.
      The wind varied in velocity from twenty to sixty miles an hour in this
city, according to the Weather Bureau figures. At Sandy Hook it reached
sixty-four miles an hour, and at Long Branch seventy-five miles an hour.
Today will be fair and cold, with moderate west winds. The temperature may
fall as low as freezing. The mercury fell to 28 degrees at Atlanta
yesterday, the Bureau report shows. This is the coldest ever recorded in
that city in October.
      City Island was in darkness last night when the electric light wires
along the Bay Street automobile road were blown down. In the highest tide
that was ever recorded on the island thirty motor boats and many schooners
and yawls were washed ashore. At Jane's boat-house in Westchester fifteen
launches were carried in on the mud flats.  On Pelham Parkway the wind blew
down many trees across the road.
      At Classon Point dwellers upon twelve moored motor boats woke up
yesterday morning to find that the tide had risen so high overnight that
instead of being able to walk ashore along the mud flats, they were
separated from the land by a quarter of mile of water. Boatmen brought them
ashore.
      At Rye Beach, near Port Chester, it was estimated that about $10,000
damage to boats and houses resulted from the storm.
      Several hundred feet of railroad track of the Jersey Southern Railway
was washed away near Sea Bright, N.J. The gale broke the wires of an
electric company at Longport near Atlantic City and several Summer
residences were destroyed, with an estimated loss of about $25,000.


                            
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Mary Ellen Waltz
Miriam Medina
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