Long Island "Bailey Beach" Becomes Rubble Tidal Waves Bring Floods Thousands Homeless WEST Indian hurri New York, Sept. 22. brought furious winds, great tidal waves and floods to America's eastern seaboard from New Jersey to New England late yesterday and caused death and devastation unequalled in the history of Atlantic storms.
Fragmentary reports received from dozens of scattered points slong the path of the hurricane revealed that scores were killed and uncounted hundreds homeless while property damage was almost inestimable.
Casualties and damage so far reported are 100 dead, missing, 3,000 sent to hospitals, 8,000 homeless and property damage at U.S.$100,000,000.
Massachusetts was declared in a state of emergency and 3,700 National Guardsmen started patroling 39 cities and towns in the state. In the first mass movement of flood sufferers, the Guardsmen evacuated the entire 3,000 population of Hadley, menaced by the rapidly rising Connecticut River, 10 Amherst.
Although the brunt of the hurricane hit the New England coast, the tail of the tropical storm lashed the New York metropolitan area where at least thirteen persons were killed. The storm struck the northern shore Long. Island at approximately ninety miles an_hour.
New London, Conn. was completely isolated from the rest of the world as the high wind disrupted all communications, Fires raged unchecked fon the city's waterfront and amateur short wave radio operators. reported that houses and large buildings were blasted into the alr with dynamite to protect the business district from the spreading flames, Rivers at Flood Level Rivers rose to the flood level throughout New England adding to the destruction and misery of the land and people while mountainous waves continued to pound the ocean side fof Long Island. At least six persons were dead and scores were forced to Nee from the island. Mr. Leonard Jarvis, @ resident of West Hampton, reported that thirty residents of the colony, including his parents, were missing.
The force of the hurricane subsided at-midnight in New England but rivers continued to rise and were expected to reach their crests late today rently la the morning. Four days (torrential rains had already swollen east coast rivers far beyond their rormal limits but the Avlantie storm brought the rivers to a flood stage surpassing the disastrotis conditions 1936.
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