1922 — June 11, severe storm, especially NYC area, esp. off City Island, Bronx, NY   —   >60

Compiled by Wayne Blanchard; last edit 4-18-2025 for upload to: http://www.usdeadlyevents.com/

—     75  Evening World, NYC. “Police Place Death List in Storm at 75…” 6-12-1922, p. 1.

—     75  Simpsons’ Daily Leader-Times, Kittanning, PA. “Storm’s Death Toll 75.” 6-15-1922, p5.[1]

—   >60  New York Herald. “Two Die Repairing Damage of Storm.” 6-14-1922, p. 3.

—     60  AP. “Sixty Storm Victims Line In Morgues.” Oneonta Daily Star, NY. 6-13-1922, p. 1.

—     60  Grazulis. “Downbursts and Other Mysteries.” Significant Tornadoes 1680-1991. P. 116.

–55-60  Olean Evening Herald, NY. “Revised Reports Show Death List Increases.” 6-13-1922, 1

—     50  Oneonta Daily Star, NY. “Fifty Dead…One Hundred Injured…” 6-12-1922, p. 1.

            –40  boating in Long Island Sound

            —  6  Ferris Wheel knocked to the ground, Bronx amusement park. [Would go to 8.]

—     45  AP. “Believe Death Toll in N.Y. Will Reach Seventy.” Olean Evening Herald, NY. 6-13-1922, p.1.

            –40  From capsized boats off City Island, The Bronz.

            —  7  Ferris Wheel collapse, Clason’s Point,                                      [Would go to 8.]

—     45  NYT. “Gale’s Known Dead Now 45; 16 Missing; Total May Reach 75.” 6-13-1922, p.1, 6.

Blanchard note: For what it is worth our attempt to develop a listing of fatalities comes to 58, with another 10 noted as missing. Thus it appears to us that it seems probable that at least (>) 60 people lost their lives, with the great majority in metropolitan New York area.

Narrative Information

Grazulis: “There were millions of dollars in damage and many deaths in New York and southern New England. In the New York City area, about 60 people were killed. Seven died on a ferris wheel, but most were drowned when caught offshore in boats. Gusts to 88 mph were recorded.”  (Grazulis.  Significant Tornadoes 1680-1991. 1993, p. 116.)

 

Newspapers

 

June 11: “New York, June 11.—A violent storm accompanied by shifting winds that reached a velocity of 88 miles an hour took the lives of more than 50 persons, injured more than 100 and caused, enormous property loss in the metropolitan area late today. Forty persons were reported to have lost their lives while boating in Long Island Sound and others were killed by falling trees, lightning and accidents caused by the wind. Ten bodies of the drowned have been recovered, and the waters about New York are being searched tonight for 30 missing. Six persons were killed and more than 40 hurt when the wind caught a, huge Ferris wheel at a Bronx amusement park and crushed it to the ground. A woman and her seven-year-old daughter were crushed to death and several other persons injured when an oak tree, blown by the wind, crashed through the roof into the crowded dining room of the Red Lion inn, on Boston Post road, carrying with it an old-fashioned stone chimney…. The bodies of seven canoeists, taught in Long Island Sound off City

Island, at the height of the storm, were washed, ashore after nightfall.

 

“Miss Edda Smith, 17, walking with a companion along the reservoir road at Ossining, was blown into the water and drowned….

 

“Charles Emerson, New Rochelle clothing manufacturer, was rowing in Echo Bay with his wife and three children when the storm broke. He managed to row to shore, then died from a heart attack.

 

“A tree fell across a party of motorists seeking shelter on the Brookville road, near Locust Valley, Long Island, killing Harry Halleran of Oyster Bay…

 

“Unable to reach shore in the stiff wind. Jack Lowenthal, 20, was drowned while swimming in East river.

 

“Concetti Basiataso and his ten-year-old son…were killed when a tree under which they had found shelter in the Bronx, was struck by lightning.

 

“Two men were killed in Newark N. J., when they came in contact with electric wires torn down by the wind.

 

“A massive, decayed tree on the New York-Westchester county line at Mt. Vernon fell, crushing to death Mis. Cassie Cacavallo and her infant son….”  (Oneonta Daily Star. “Fifty Dead, More Than One Hundred Injured, Is Toll of Violent Storm in Metropolitan Area,” June 12, 1922.)

 

June 11: “New York. June 11.—The fury of the electrical storm that swept New York late today, destroying life and property, broke suddenly over a little amusement park at Clason’s Point, the Bronx, lashed into a Ferris wheel crowded with young people, crushed it to the ground, and passed on, leaving six dead and more than 40 injured….the upper half broke away and was catapulted into the shallow waters of Long Island Sound.  The lower half buckled and fell a twisted mass of steel, wooden girders and human bodies.”  (Oneonta Daily Star.  “Storm Hits Crowded Ferris Wheel; Six Dead, 40 Hurt., June 12, 1922.)

 

June 11: “Albany, June 11.—Two deaths and property damage as yet un-estimated but known to run into the millions of dollars resulted from a series of electrical storms that broke over Northern and Central New York last night and today. Flood conditions prevail along portions of the Mohawk valley and westward through Oneida and Syracuse. While most of the damage was caused by the heavy rains, which caused the streams and rivers to overflow their banks, wind and hail combined in the work of destruction. One person was killed by a falling tree at Cortland. A miniature tornado struck the village of Athens on the west bank of the Hudson, about 25 miles south of this city, and hail played havoc with many orchards and gardens.  At Smyrna, Chenango county, an aged woman was drowned when her house was swept away in the flood. Her body was found in the wreckage of the home, which lodged against a bridge.” (Oneonta Daily Star. “Upstate Hard Hit; Big Property Loss,” June 12, 1922, p. 1)

 

June 12, NYT: “Albany, N.Y., June 12. – Four known dead, a two-year-old child missing and believed to have been drowned, scores injured and probably $2,000,000 in damage was the toll of the severe series of electrical storms, cloudbursts and small cyclones that swept over Northern and Central New York yesterday. Flood conditions prevail through the Mohawk Valley and railroad traffic on small branch lines was crippled. The dead.

 

            Haskins, Mrs. Mary, 60, Smyrna, Chenango County, drowned when her home was swept

away in the flood.

Marvin, Anson, 69, Syracuse, found in pool in street after water receded.

Reals, Herman, 3, Janesville, drowned in Butternut Creek which overflowed in the street

near his home; body not recovered.

Van Stralen, George, Cortland, farmer, killed when a tree fell across the truck he was

driving.

 

“The Missing.

            Smith, Luella, 2, Elmira, wandered from home during storm and has been missing since.

 

(New York Times. “4 Known Dead up State, Storm Loss $2,000,000.” 6-13-1922, p. 6.)

 

June 13, AP: “(By The Associated Press)

“New York, June 13. – The death list resulting from the cyclonic storm that smashed and swirled its way through New York and its suburbs Sunday evening continues to grow. The known dead now total 45 with 16 other persons reported missing. The storm, which only lasted about five minutes, would have caused many more deaths even in that space of time, except for the fact that it manifested its power curiously in restricting regions and eccentric paths.

 

“The police launches continued to grapple today for bodies of those still missing after the storm left Long Island Sound off City Island were drowned in the disaster and the police today are convinced that the death list will reach as high as 70, judging from the large amount of hand bags and other personal property thrown on the beach.

 

“It will be days before to total loss of life will be known, the police pointing out that the failure of members of families to return home yesterday is bringing new reports of missing persons to the City Island police station, and more broken hearted spectators to watch the sorrowful search of the waters.

 

“The Bronx grand jury has started an investigation of the wreck of the ferris wheel at Clazon’s [Clason] Point which killed seven and seriously injured 40 visitors to the amusement resort. Officials will examine the wreckage to see if the huge device was originally constructed along safe lines. The owner, who was arrested after the tragedy, will face the grand jury today.

 

“The property damage resulting from the twisting winds runs into millions. Electric light and power lines were destroyed for miles as the poles bearing the cables snapped in the blasts. The loss in plate glass is only exceeded by the Black Tom explosion, according to insurance companies covering such risks.

 

“Freak stunts of the storm constantly appear. A roof from a church in Yonkers was lifted off the edifice by the gusts of wind and dropped into the street upon a passing automobile containing five people. When rescuers tore away the timbers they found that none were hurt.” (Associated Press. “Believe Death Toll in N.Y. Will Reach Seventy.” Olean Evening Herald, NY. 6-13-1922, p. 1.)

 

June 13: “New York, June 13. – Revised reports received late today from Sunday’s storms, indicated that from 55 to 60 persons had perished in the tempest that swept the metropolitan area, taking its greatest toll among boating parties at City Island. Last night it was reported that about three score bodies [a score is 20] were in the morgues scattered along the coast from New Jersey to Connecticut but this morning, it was found that certain cases where transfers had been made names had been duplicated.

 

“At one time the revised list was reduced to 45 known dead and 16 missing, but several missing later were found dead but not reported and occasionally bodies were washed up along the shore. At noon, the count of known dead stood at 55, with many more holiday mak4rs who had put out in row boats last Sunday still missing.

 

“The latest body to be recovered was that of an unidentified woman floating in the East River off Clason Point. At the same time it was announced that the body of a man washed up at Rye had been identified as that of Henry C. Robinson of New Rochelle, a civil engineer, who was taking his wife and two small children across Long Island Sound in his motor boat when the storm broke out. Nothing is known of the fate of the other three.” (Olean Evening Herald, NY. “Revised Reports Show Death List Increases.” 6-13-1922, p. 1.)

 

June 13, NYT: “The list of known dead in the storm which swept the city late Sunday afternoon rose to forty-five yesterday, including seven dead in Ferris wheel accident at Clason Point, but the police who searched all day for bodies in the waters around City Island were convinced last night that the death toll would reach as high as seventy-five.

 

At least ten persons are known to be missing, and doubtless drowned in the waters around City Island, but judging from the forty inquiries about missing persons at the City Island Police Station and the large amount of handbags and other personal property cast up on the beaches, the police are convinced the total number of deaths will be much larger than now shown by the known dead and the list of missing.

 

Bathhouses and other resorts at City Island reported supplementary lists of missing persons who had failed to return for clothing and other property after the storm, and, counting out possible duplications, it was the opinion last night that this number of actual missing persons would be at least a half dozen. Six suits of clothes were turned over to the police by bathing house proprietors, who said other persons, who left no property, had taken boats which had not been returned.

 

“The twenty-seven dead and three unidentified dead included the known list of those who perished in the waters around City Island. The number of persons known to have perished in City Island and vicinity is now about twelve. The ten persons reported missing were known to have been seen at City Island on Sunday, so that it was here that the storm extorted its most disastrous toll.

 

“The police believe that the full list of the dead may not be known for several days, until after all the bodies have risen to the surface of the water or have been cast up on the shores. They believe it possible that some of the bodies of persons drowned near City Island may never be recovered because some may be buried in the mud under water or swept away by the tides and waves to the northern Long Island beaches near Whitestone, College Point and Glen Cove. The body of one victim was recovered last night on a beach at Fox Point, between Glen Cove and Bayville, where it had been cast up by the waves.

….

“A revised [partial] list of the storm’s casualties here follows: [We add numbering.]

 

  1. Anderson, John, 4,138 Digney Avenue, Bronx; drowned off Greenwich Harbor [CT].
  2. Ceaseavali, Anthony, 10, 162 West Sixth Street [Brooklyn]; killed by falling tree.
  3. Ceaseavali, Concatti, 52, 162 West Sixth Street [Brooklyn]; killed by falling tree.
  4. Cotton, Wesley S., 19, 49 South Street, Newark, drowned in Lake Hopatcong [NJ]
  5. Denkhart, Caroline, 728 Elton Avenue [Bronx, NY]
  6. Diogordo, Salvator, 34, 1,957 First Avenue, drowned off Larchmont [NYC suburb].
  7. Dexler, Sadie, 19, stenographer, 496 East 174th Street; drowned off City Island.
  8. Eicoff, Marion, 24, 1,472 Seabury Place, Bronx; drowned off City Island.
  9. Farley, Patrick, 38, 41 Commerce Street; drowned off City Island.
  10. Funicello, Carl, U.S.N., 98 Sixteenth Street, Brooklyn; drowned.
  11. Grattino, John, 21, 334 East 106th Street; drowned off Larchmont.
  12. Hayes, Joseph J., 18, 304 West Forty-second Street [Manhattan].
  13. Heyder, Fred, 20, 1,715 Seventy-eighth Street, Brooklyn.
  14. Kaplan, Beatrice, 45, no address given; drowned off City Island.
  15. Kaplan, Bessie, 26, 248 Pacific Street, Brooklyn; drowned off City Island.
  16. Keining, S., an infant, 2,416 Lyvere Street, the Bronx.
  17. Kohler, Agnes, 3, 236 East 118th Street; drowned off City Island.
  18. Lownthal, Charles, 20, 56 East 105th Street; drowned.
  19. Morras, London, 21, 784 East 165th Street; drowned off City Island.
  20. Petzold, Mrs. Clara, 50, 2,416 Lyvere Street, the Bronx.
  21. Pfaffendorf, Alfred, 6 months, 229 East 118th Street; drowned off City Island.
  22. Robinson, Henry C., 34, 523 Argyle Ave., New Rochelle, body washed ashore at Rye.][2]
  23. Ruskin, Moe, 25, 390 Miller Avenue, Brooklyn; drowned off City Island.
  24. Rutter, Isadore, 19, 21 Charles Street; drowned off City Island.
  25. Smith, Edna, 17, Linden Avenue, Ossining.
  26. Stroyer, James, 32 Union Avenue, New Rochelle; drowned off Larchmont.
  27. Sussman, William, 13, 244 West 112th Street; drowned.
  28. Zimet, Julia, 26, 848 Whitlock Avenue, the Bronx; drowned off City Island.

 

Unidentified Dead.

 

            Man…picked up in Harlem River off 180th Street

            Man, 25 years old…body found off Classon Point.

            Woman, unidentified, in Fordham Morgue.

 

Missing.

  1. Blog, Joseph, 116 West 117th
  2. Conboy, Josephine, 350 East Forty-first Street.
  3. Deizler, Jacob, 317 West 124th
  4. Foss, Lloyd, 213 Madison Avenue.
  5. Keining, John, 40 years, 2,416, Lyvere Street, the Bronx.
  6. Keining, John Jr., 8 years, 2,416 Lyvere Street, the Bronx.
  7. London, Jack, address unknown; reported missing by City Island Bathing Club.
  8. Pan, Frances, 43 years, Clove and Richmond Roads, Staten Island.
  9. Scarpa, Joseph, 1,362 Sixty-second Street, Brooklyn.
  10. Wunder, Ernest, 1,229 Cypress Avenue.”

 

(NYT. “Gale’s Known Dead Now 45; 16 Missing; Total May Reach 75.” 6-13-1922, pp.1, 6.)

 

June 14: “Two more were added yesterday toa the list of those who met death as a result of the storm Sunday. They were electricians working to correct the storm damage and maintain servicer to the Rest House at Inwood Park, an institution for the sick.

 

“Frederick Perry of 401 West 126th street, foreman of the job, regardless of his own danger, attempted to free the body of Carlo Inburgio, a lineman, which had become entangled in a live wire carrying current from the power house of the United Electric Light and Power Company to the Rest House. Little spurts of blue flame told the other members of the gang that their boss and Inburgio had been instantly killed….

 

“The double electrocution brought the known death toll to well over sixty, as none of the seven missing after the fury of the storm had spent itself has since reported safe. It is possible too that there are others missing whose names have not yet reached the authorities. Estimates of the total dead continued to vary from sixty-five to ninety, with the police holding nearer the first figure.

 

“The eighth death resulting from the collapse of Paul Simon’s Ferris wheel at Clason Point was recorded when Addie Potter, 18…of 42 West 120th street, died at Fordham Hospital of a fractured skull….

 

“Identification of the body of Henry C. Robinson, 34, a civil engineer of 53 Argyle avenue, New Rochelle, washed ashore at Rye, probably tells the fate of three others. Mr. Robinson, with his wife and two children, a girl aged 6 and a boy of 4, is known to have started from  New Rochelle for Oyster Bay a few minutes before the storm broke in a twenty-eight foot power boat. Identification of Robinson’s body was made by his mother, Mrs. Mary Robinson of New Rochelle….” (New York Herald. “Two Die Repairing Damage of Storm.” 6-14-1922, p. 3.)

 

June 14: “New York, June 14. – Three more victims were added to the death toll resulting from the storm which crossed New York Sunday afternoon with the fury of a hurricane. Two more bodies were tossed from the waters and another victims died from injuries received in the collapse of the Ferris wheel at Clason Point. Police are keeping up the search for the drowned at City Island. They think that the total death list will reach 75.” (Simpsons’ Daily Leader-Times, Kittanning, PA. “Storm’s Death Toll 75.” 6-15-1922, p. 5.)

 

June 16, Evening World, NYC: “Bodies of two men, victims of last Sunday’s storm, were recovered by Lew Price, former city fireman, off Orchard Beach and the Dixon boathouse at City Island to-day. One was about twenty-five and had brown hair and wore blue bathing trunks and a gray sweater; he was of medium height and weight. The other was about twenty, had dark brown hair and wore a blue bathing suit.” (Evening World, NYC. “Two More Bodies of Storm Victims Are Recovered.” 6-16-1922, p. 10.)

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Listing of fatalities as noted in sources herein:

(28 unfootnoted from NYT. “Gale’s Known Dead Now 45…May Reach 75.” 6-13-1922, pp.1, 6.)

 

  1. Anderson, John, 4,138 Digney Avenue, Bronx; drowned off Greenwich Harbor [CT].
  2. Basiataso, Concetti, of Mount Vernon; lightning; had sought shelter under tree.[3]
  3. Basiataso, Anthony, 10, of Mount Vernon; lightning; had sought shelter under tree.[4]
  4. Buskin, Moe, 23, No. 230 Miller Avenue, Brooklyn. Reportedly drowned off Hart’s Isl.[5]
  5. Casey, Mrs. Grace Lawyer, 24, 123 West 111th street; Ferris Wheel crash victim.[6]
  6. Casey, Emily, 9, daughter of Mrs. Casey; Ferris Wheel crash victim.[7]
  7. Ceaseavali, Anthony, 10, 162 West Sixth Street [Brooklyn]; killed by falling tree.
  8. Ceaseavali, Concatti, 52, 162 West Sixth Street [Brooklyn]; killed by falling tree.
  9. Cotton, Wesley S., 19, 49 South Street, Newark, drowned in Lake Hopatcong [NJ]
  10. Danatro, Louis, 24, No. 524 Edith St., Bronx; Ferris Wheel collapse, Clason Point.[8]
  11. Denkhart, Caroline, 728 Elton Avenue [Bronx, NY]
  12. Dexler, Sadie, 19, stenographer, 496 East 174th Street; drowned off City Island.
  13. Diogordo, Salvator, 34, 1,957 First Avenue, drowned off Larchmont [NYC suburb].
  14. Eicoff, Marion, 24, 1,472 Seabury Place, Bronx; drowned off City Island.
  15. Emerson, Charles. Heart attack after rowing back to Echo Bay shore during storm.[9]
  16. Farley, Patrick, 38, 41 Commerce Street; drowned off City Island.
  17. Freda, Mrs. Pasquale, 38, No. 249 East 147th, Ferris Wheel collapse, Clason Point.[10]
  18. Funicello, Carl, U.S.N., 98 Sixteenth Street, Brooklyn; drowned.
  19. Grattino, John, 21, 334 East 106th Street; drowned off Larchmont.
  20. Guide, Salvator, No. 1,957 First Avenue. Drowned off City Island.[11]
  21. Halleran, Harry, of Oyster Bay. Tree fall on Brookville Rd., near Locust Valley, L.I.[12]
  22. Haskins, Mrs. Mary, 60, Smyrna, Chenango Co., drowned, home swept away in the flood.
  23. Hayes, Joseph J., 18, 304 West Forty-second Street [Manhattan].
  24. Heyder, Fred, 20, 1,715 Seventy-eighth Street, Brooklyn.
  25. Kaplan, Beatrice, 45, no address given; drowned off City Island.
  26. Kaplan, Bessie, 26, 248 Pacific Street, Brooklyn; drowned off City Island.
  27. Keining, John, 30, No. 2416 Levere Street the Bronx. Drowned off City Island.[13]
  28. Keining, S., an infant, 2,416 Lyvere Street, the Bronx.
  29. Kohler, Agnes, 3, 236 East 118th Street; drowned off City Island.
  30. London, Morris, 21, 784 East 165th Street; drowned off City Island.[14]
  31. Lownthal, Charles, 20, 56 East 105th Street; drowned (East River[15]).
  32. Marvin, Anson, 69, Syracuse, found in pool in street after water receded. (Upper NY)
  33. Mott, Edward, 5, of 6 Main St., Ridgefield Park, NJ; stepped on downed wire at home.[16]
  34. Pellebrini, Lasale, 40, unknown address. Ferris Wheel collapse, Clason Point.[17]
  35. Petzold (or Petgold)[18], Mrs. Clara, 50, 2,416 Lyvere Street, the Bronx.
  36. Pfaffendorf, Alfred, 6 months, 229 East 118th Street; drowned off City Island.
  37. Potter, Addie, 18, died of injuries from Ferris Wheel collapse, the 8th[19]
  38. Reals, Herman, 3, Janesville, drowned in overflowing Butternut Creek; Upper NY.
  39. Reitter, Isidor, 19, No. 21 Charles Street. Drowned off City Island.[20]
  40. Rigoff, Marion, No. 1472 Seabury Place, the Bronx; drowned off City Island.[21]
  41. Robinson, Henry C., 34, 523 Argyle Ave., New Rochelle, body washed ashore at Rye.[22]
  42. Robinson, Mrs. Henry C.; her husband’s body washed ashore at Rye.[23] (Assumed dead)
  43. Robinson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Robinson, aged 6.[24]      (Assumed dead)    
  44. Robinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Robinson, aged 4.[25] (Assumed dead)
  45. Ruskin, Moe, 25, 390 Miller Avenue, Brooklyn; drowned off City Island.
  46. Rutter [or Rudder],[26] Isadore, 19, 21 Charles Street; drowned off City Island.
  47. Smith, Edna, 17, Linden Ave, Ossining. Drowned; blown off Reservoir Road into water.[27]
  48. Stroyer (or Stroker[28]), James, 32 Union Avenue, New Rochelle; drowned off Larchmont.
  49. Sussman, William, 13, 244 West 112th Street; drowned; canoeing in Hudson River.[29]
  50. Van Stralen, George, Cortland, farmer, killed when a tree fell across his truck; Upper NY.
  51. Vanderpool, Della, 30, No. 43 West 130th Ferris Wheel collapse, Clason Point.[30]
  52. Wranna, Mrs. Adam, 26. Tree fall, Red Lion Inn, Boston Post Rd., Mamaroneck, NY.[31]
  53. Wranna, Roslyn, 7. Daughter of Mrs. Wranna. Tree fall, Red Lion Inn, Mamaroneck, NY.[32]
  54. Zimet, Julia, 26, 848 Whitlock Avenue, the Bronx; drowned off City Island.
  55. Unnamed Italian drowned, capsized rowboat off New Rochelle, NY.[33]
  56. Unnamed Italian #2 drowned, capsized rowboat off New Rochelle, NY.[34]
  57. Unidentified male, about 25, body recovered June 16 off Orchard Beach, City Island.[35]
  58. Unidentified male, about 20, body recovered June 16 off Orchard Beach, City Island.[36]

 

Missing.

  1. Blog, Joseph, 116 West 117th
  2. Conboy, Josephine, 350 East Forty-first Street.
  3. Deizler, Jacob, 317 West 124th
  4. Foss, Lloyd, 213 Madison Avenue.
  5. Pan, Frances, 43 years, Clove and Richmond Roads, Staten Island.
  6. Scarpa, Joseph, 1,362 Sixty-second Street, Brooklyn.
  7. Smith, Luella, 2, Elmira, wandered from home during storm and has been missing since.
  8. Vollmer, Carl, 22, Pennyfield Road, Bronx, off City Island.[37]
  9. Wunder, Ernest, 1,229 Cypress Avenue.”

 

Sources

 

Associated Press. “Believe Death Toll in N.Y. Will Reach Seventy.” Olean Evening Herald, NY. 6-13-1922, p. 1. Accessed 4-17-2025 at:

https://newspaperarchive.com/olean-evening-herald-jun-13-1922-p-1/

 

Bell, Blake A. “Freak Storm Reportedly Drowned Dozens…Off Pelham Shores in 1922.” Historic Pelham, 11-1-2019. Accessed 4-18-2025 at: https://historicpelham.blogspot.com/search/label/Windstorm?m=0

 

Evening World, NYC. “Police Place Death List in Storm at 75, With Bodies of 47 Recovered.” 6-12-1922, p. 1. Accessed 4-18-2025 at: https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2024/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20World/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20World%201922/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20World%201922-06-12%20Page%201.pdf

 

Evening World, NYC. “Two More Bodies of Storm Victims Are Recovered.” 6-16-1922, p. 10. Accessed 4-18-2025 at: https://newspaperarchive.com/new-york-evening-world-jun-16-1922-p-10/

 

Grazulis, Thomas P. Significant Tornadoes 1680-1991: A Chronology and Analysis of Events. St. Johnsbury, VE: Environmental Films, 1993, 1,326 pages.

 

New York 1920s. “Ferris Wheel Disaster in the Bronx.” Accessed 4-18-2025 at: https://www.ny1920.com/jun-11-1922

 

New York Herald. “Three More Victims of Storm Identified.” 6-17-1922, p. 10. Accessed 4-18-2025 at: https://newspaperarchive.com/new-york-herald-jun-17-1922-p-10/

 

New York Herald. “Two Die Repairing Damage of Storm.” 6-14-1922, p. 3. Accessed 4-17-2025 at: https://newspaperarchive.com/new-york-herald-jun-14-1922-p-20/

 

New York Times. “4 Known Dead up State, Storm Loss $2,000,000.” 6-13-1922, p. 6. Accessed 4-17-2025 at: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/06/13/issue.html

 

New York Times. “Gale’s Known Dead Now 45; 16 Missing; Total May Reach 75.” 6-13-1922, pp.1, 6. Accessed 4-17-2025 at: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/06/13/issue.html

 

Olean Evening Herald, NY. “Revised Reports Show Death List Increases.” 6-13-1922, p. 1. Accessed 4-17-2025 at: https://newspaperarchive.com/olean-evening-herald-jun-13-1922-p-1/

 

Oneonta Daily Star, NY. “Fifty Dead, More Than One Hundred Injured, Is Toll of Violent Storm in Metropolitan Area,” June 12, 1922, p. 1.  Accessed at:  http://www.newspaperarchive.com/FullPagePdfViewer.aspx?img=3215576

 

Oneonta Daily Star, NY. “Upstate Hard Hit; Big Property Loss,” June 12, 1922, p. 1. Accessed 4-17-2025 at: https://newspaperarchive.com/oneonta-daily-star-jun-12-1922-p-1/

 

Simpsons’ Daily Leader-Times, Kittanning, PA. “Storm’s Death Toll 75.” 6-15-1922, p. 5. Accessed 4-18-2025 at: https://newspaperarchive.com/kittanning-simpsons-daily-leader-times-jun-15-1922-p-5/

 

Thompsonville Press, CT. ”Fatal Storms in New York Vicinity.” 6-15-1922, p. 2. Accessed 4-18-2025 at: https://newspaperarchive.com/thompsonville-press-jun-15-1922-p-2/

 

 

 

 

 

 

[1] Notes that the police were anticipating 75 deaths.

[2] New York Herald. “Two Die Repairing Damage of Storm.” 6-14-1922, p. 3

[3] Bell, B. “Freak Storm Reportedly Drowned Dozens…Off Pelham Shores in 1922.” Historic Pelham, 11-1-2019

[4] Bell, B. “Freak Storm Reportedly Drowned Dozens…Off Pelham Shores in 1922.” Historic Pelham, 11-1-2019

[5] Bell, B. “Freak Storm Reportedly Drowned Dozens…Off Pelham Shores in 1922.” Historic Pelham, 11-1-2019.

[6] New York Herald. “Two Die Repairing Damage of Storm.” 6-14-1922, p. 3.

[7] New York Herald. “Two Die Repairing Damage of Storm.” 6-14-1922, p. 3.

[8] New York 1920s. “Ferris Wheel Disaster in the Bronx.”

[9] Bell, B. “Freak Storm Reportedly Drowned Dozens…Off Pelham Shores in 1922.” Historic Pelham, 11-1-2019.

[10] New York 1920s. “Ferris Wheel Disaster in the Bronx.”

[11] Bell, B. “Freak Storm Reportedly Drowned Dozens…Off Pelham Shores in 1922.” Historic Pelham, 11-1-2019.

[12] Bell, B. “Freak Storm Reportedly Drowned Dozens…Off Pelham Shores in 1922.” Historic Pelham, 11-1-2019

[13] Bell, B. “Freak Storm Reportedly Drowned Dozens…Off Pelham Shores in 1922.” Historic Pelham, 11-1-2019.

[14] New York Herald. “Three More Victims of Storm Identified.” 6-17-1922, p. 10.

[15] Bell, B. “Freak Storm Reportedly Drowned Dozens…Off Pelham Shores in 1922.” Historic Pelham, 11-1-2019

[16] New York Herald. “Two Die Repairing Damage of Storm.” 6-14-1922, p. 3.

[17] New York 1920s. “Ferris Wheel Disaster in the Bronx.”

[18] Bell, B. “Freak Storm Reportedly Drowned Dozens…Off Pelham Shores in 1922.” Historic Pelham, 11-1-2019.

[19] New York Herald. “Two Die Repairing Damage of Storm.” 6-14-1922, p. 3.

[20] Bell, B. “Freak Storm Reportedly Drowned Dozens…Off Pelham Shores in 1922.” Historic Pelham, 11-1-2019.

[21] Bell, B. “Freak Storm Reportedly Drowned Dozens…Off Pelham Shores in 1922.” Historic Pelham, 11-1-2019.

[22] New York Herald. “Two Die Repairing Damage of Storm.” 6-14-1922, p. 3

[23] New York Herald. “Two Die Repairing Damage of Storm.” 6-14-1922, p. 3

[24] New York Herald. “Two Die Repairing Damage of Storm.” 6-14-1922, p. 3

[25] New York Herald. “Two Die Repairing Damage of Storm.” 6-14-1922, p. 3

[26] New York Herald. “Three More Victims of Storm Identified.” 6-17-1922, p. 10.

[27] Bell, B. “Freak Storm Reportedly Drowned Dozens…Off Pelham Shores in 1922.” Historic Pelham, 11-1-2019.

[28] Bell, Blake A. “Freak Storm Reportedly Drowned Dozens…Off Pelham Shores in 1922.” Historic Pelham, 11-1-2019. According to Bell “At New Rochell James Stroker lost his life while trying to rescue five Italians from a capsized rowboat.”

[29] New York Herald. “Three More Victims of Storm Identified.” 6-17-1922, p. 10.

[30] New York 1920s. “Ferris Wheel Disaster in the Bronx.”

[31] Thompsonville Press, CT. ”Fatal Storms in New York Vicinity.” 6-15-1922, p. 2.

[32] Thompsonville Press, CT. ”Fatal Storms in New York Vicinity.” 6-15-1922, p. 2.

[33] Bell, B. “Freak Storm Reportedly Drowned Dozens…Off Pelham Shores in 1922.” Historic Pelham, 11-1-2019.

[34] Bell, B. “Freak Storm Reportedly Drowned Dozens…Off Pelham Shores in 1922.” Historic Pelham, 11-1-2019.

[35] Evening World, NYC. “Two More Bodies of Storm Victims Are Recovered.” 6-16-1922, p. 10.

[36] Evening World, NYC. “Two More Bodies of Storm Victims Are Recovered.” 6-16-1922, p. 10.

[37] Bell, B. “Freak Storm Reportedly Drowned Dozens…Off Pelham Shores in 1922.” Historic Pelham, 11-1-2019. Reported missing to police by his mother.