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Long Branch, NY "Syracuse" Tornado, Sept 1912 - Summer Cottages Wrecked
Posted March 8th, 2009 by gendisasters
TORNADO WRECKED SUMMER COTTAGES
Sunday's Storm Played Havoc Along Seneca River
Visitor is Badly Hurt
Reuben Dudley said to have sustained fractured skull -- Union men offer their services to rebuild damaged buildings.
Reuben Dudley, a visitor at one of the cottages on the Seneca Road is said to have suffered a fracture of the skull as a result of the tornado of Sunday. Reports of the damage to the cottages along the Seneca river today showed that the tornado played great havoc there and many persons escaped death and injury only by good fortune.
Robert Prager [?] a cottager near Long Branch, had tied his motorboat to a tree near his cottage. The tornado uprooted the tree and [illegible] upon his cottage, carrying the motorboat ten feet in to the air where it hung by the rope.
A cottage owned by Clarence Dunn was completely wrecked. This cottage was about 100 feet from another cottage where Mr. Dunn's family were huddled in fear as trees crashed down in the woods about hem. Trees along the river, leaning over, were hurled over in the opposite direction.
Mr. Dudley was struck by an iron flag pole which broke into three pieces while he was trying to fasten a motorboat.
Syracuse Herald, Syracuse, NY 18 Sept 1912
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