New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-14
A TICKLE JULY DAY.

OPENING CLEAR AND ENDING WITH A LIGHT THUN-
DER SHOWER.
The weather yesterday opened propitiously,
but was marked by nckloness. II certainly cool
enough for according Hudnurs record the mercury
did not rise above $50, at $50 p. M, when 1t
reached Its highest poiGt The thermometer at 7
q IN registered zoe, and at noon n had risen
20 500 At @ D m. II had sunk
20 49, and o'clock in the evening the record was
7Io Yet the weather In q desperate mood. appar
eatly for about p tn vivid flashes Of lightning swept
the horizon aud mniterings OF thunder followed In its
wake With ominous forebcdlng For tims rain fell
moderately. Later the skY cleared, and at midnight
the air was cool aud refreshing.
Considerable excitement WA caused In THE Tribune
editorial rooms during the storm BY vivid fash Of
lightning accompanied loud report Ike the firing
OF Of q gun IN the telegraph news room There
vas no person In the room except messenger
boy at the tlc and his banehed face showed that he
appreciated the danger He said ball OF nrs cam
from the telegraph which into the room. and
seemed to explode like bomb The only evidence OF
the explosion asrange odor about the room, which
lasted for some time
Night superintendent Sink at tue Office OF the Western
Uuion Telegraph Company said that the occurrence in
The TRIBUNE once probably stroke ofhghtning As
the windows Of the editorial rooms were open, current
probably carried the lightning Into the rooms The
pneumatc tube. by which messages are sent and re-
eeyed between the Western Union aud The TRIBUNE
Office Ia composed OF Drass, excellent conductor OF
electricity IL acted such by carrying the current
safely through the building into the ground. with no
otner result than the lash aud report.
TIE experience IN THE TRIBUNE onco suggested IN
guinea the downtown telegraph ana Telephone ooes
rs whether any unusual dsiurosnce 10 hs wires nah
been caused by the storm. IL was found thai AL the
offices below Wallst. and Mt the Mutual Union Ieie-
graph COmpany's main Office In Broadway, nothing un-
usual hal been noticed. Al tie Western Union Com
panys building II said that the lightning had been
oil too brief duration interference win the
DuAincss The wires leading into tue
building well "a the Telephone wires tnat run n.o ,n
central Office OF the telephone company al No. lD5
broadway prov ded with "hgntulng arrester.
This IA cDnGrvauce which leads tne violent current
caused by lightning from nc wircs "a tney enter the
frlcI bone office we're bothered only 20 the extent
Of having 10 answer calls That were NOT
really masie by the various connecting oinceh
Prevented from doing damage Dy tno ns M, nis
during % severe thunderstorm are inc throwing GOWN
OF TIE tags Of tue electrical anDunciator Ihey
Usually tall only shen call - nsao ior tho purpose
connecting two places by telephone -.
In thunder shower Tnursdsy the len arm o, Mrs-
James May of Liberty-ave and Joan st. East New
l. f. was parayzed by fash of ig aiming NO damage
ayes the town, struck by hghtains In tne
same shower. ....-...
The following of prosraron by the heat were TO
ported yesterday:
NOEL JOSEPH, an Italian, OF NO VI baIterse, WAS
overcome by the heat while working at his home.
RALLY JOHN of No IL CarrollsLs Brooklyn' haa sun
stroke In the Battery Park: 80 ,.,,.,
SMITH, GEORGE all ccman, OF no 81 Mhsn t ~, H.,
becauie yerncated while loading his wagon AZ the
foot OF Horatost He died before medical ala c"ula
be summoned. 49,, - IA
-, -. an unknown mau, about thirty years OLD,
from the effects Of the heat, IN twenty sltu-se.
near EIeyonth-aye The police sent him 10 Bellevue
Hospital. lie was we'll dressed