New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-07-19

rfIpFr prpSoNs KILLED BY LIGHTNING IN NRw-
JERsrY-PRopERTY DESTROYED NEAR THIS CITY.
As stated in Yesterdays TRIBUNE, the thun-
der Storm OF Tuesday fternoon was seyerer and more
destructive the vicinity Of Ncw-fcrk than In the cty
itself The area OF maximum severity surrounded New
York life and property being destroyed both on Long
Island and in New-Jersey The storm remarkably
destructive in the Northern part OF Hudson County Nd,
killing three persons, and striking number
of houses. telegraph poles, and tees The fatal
accident occurred Homestead Station. west Of Unon
Hill Mrs Elizabeth sandow. wife of Augustus Sandow,
a farmer was out farm with her little daughter
Mary ip her arms when he Oyertaken by the rain.
She went FOR shelter under shed used Tor storing trucks
and barel Frederick Muller aged H. of Union HILL
who was employed the farm took shelter IN the same
place. The ginug .pntered iag-pole on the shed,
ana struck three persons killing The woman and boy
instantly The infant lived Few minutes longer Mui-
Ter held reco OF wire his hands and the lightning
left black mark from his hand to his shoulder. The
chd's legs burned and Gisc0ored but tho woman
was without marx of the electricity. The no lies Of
Mrs Slndaw and child prepared for burial aud that
Of Muller taSen to Union Ill.
john B. cklnan Of Jersey CITY Tghts WAS oyeriakcn
by The st r at Union Hill, and stopped at saloon on
Bergeniincav While there his horse tied front OF tho
house was struck rs lightning aud instantly killed
. In Ber-cn two at work in the Lafayette Steel
Works were knocked down. but were NOT seriously in
urrJ On ,rlrs Tubes "A III, nlpcr % No i.n.uc Com
J 49,, -. ~ ,,. ~ "a. stolis VS. tbro.n dawn
and remained iseusiblc for .s0mc time after he was
frnnd several oi the wrttIcr-hDard5 wer' torn from
M pguse ~ \! FERGUSON at ~ G9S Bergen POin Plank
/ road and Mis. u kc. VINO live, IN the house was
thrown down AMI seriously bruised. a young man
nance. Dcgrn.oa Knocked dow; ~ 5prer's undertake
in estaDii -nmcn weather boards were TORN rom the
hou-e ,f ,or. i,ch. II So.i20 Grtndat aud C,1sti
BE Ka iia kno Hc down ia store IT Harrison add
Woutire.Laves nunh'r Of telegraph poles M
parts oi jersey City aud vicinity struck woli az
several lOusc,, though in ot these any
very serious iBlgr done several harms ~ North Fer
| gen ana Gutenberg considerable injured ana the
chimney john Enkcn's house IN Fairview SHAT
| tered
the stor,n also severe on the line OF the Hulem
| Rslrnad o ChdnuagUG, the dwelling Ot israel \.
| iiaiyht VS. struck by lightning aud bIGy damaged
| Nir Iis!chf's mother hat been sitting Il window
through w1ch he lightning passed only few momcnts
before the Two barns in "a" town OF North
caste one rf them belonging NJ. Onncrd0nk were
set Oh ire aad completely drofroYci by lightning. At
Patterson Putnam County, tree struck the
railway depot, and valuable COW was killed. Al
Plea aLtViile store struck TIE r'O was torn on,
Si,a ,.c rolnnis IN irOnt were badly shattered.
IL IS probable that The lightning destroyed iwo lives IN
tbs CIV although there yet definite nioo Odceg
Ronk Of the mounted squad found The bodies N Charles
H. G ,rnc and Percy Harvard. both OF Ono-Bundfed-
aud tort xtlst Ihlni aus Conc c-yes yes
tcriay uorpy ~ Barreas Point Ia the absence Of any
known cause 81 DEATH u - believed tiat ihty were
billed by thr lisAung the case was reported ~ The
CUr0BcI'5 OiGe, and estigiiOu val De made to
day
White a number of men working with thrcshing
machine tic farm o Thomas Mn'hOiand. Ia Freehold
- j. tie lightning struck the ground near where they
employed killing thr horse attached 10 ri IA ichne
dcsfruyre thr nastuc ana Dni, up a!g no 900 bushels
ready 10 be tnreshcd. Iac lcn were not in
lufcQ.