The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-06-26
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Of the entire Atlantic seaboard. Thunder
storms occurred at intervals throughout
New England and the Middle States, with
hours of humid heat between, making the
day as thoroughly uncomfortable as if the
thermometer had been away up III the
nineties.
Shortly after O'Clock, just as the toilers
began to turn homeward, black thunder
heads rolled up like scroll over the sky from
the southwest. The storm came with an III
cessant fusillade Of celestial fireworks and
lasted about half an hour.
The heavy wind, which struck Brooklyn
about $50 O'Clock in the afternoon, blew
down q four-story frame building at Ever
green and Cooper avenue in Bushwioli, kill
ing man and a boy, and fatally injur-
ing three other men and younger brother
of the boy who was killed. All of them
had sought refuge from the storm OH
structure suddenly collapsed, they had no op-
portunity to escape. They were carried into
the cellar and buried under mass of boards
and plaster. For over an hour scores of peo-
pie worked liked beavers to get them out but
could not work fast enough to rescue the last
two alive
ST. James's Catholic Church, in Jay street,
near Chapel Brooklyn, which was the cathe-
dral of the diocese until a month ago, was
struck by lightning during the height of the
storm, and inside of a few hours was de-
stroyed by the flames, causing a loss of &c.,
600.
Lightning played havoc at Elizabeth, N.
j., during the storm, demolishing trees in
various parts of the city, striking buildings,
and knocking out the electric light system.
The big ball surmounting the Jeffer-
knocked off, and just missed woman
in its fall. A ball of fire entered
Wright Curtis's house in Jefferson street and
stunned the members of his family The
rain fell in perfect deluge. That night no
electric lights were burning in the principal
business thoroughfares.
Callender's insulated wire works in Harri-
son, N. j., were struck by lightning and
partly destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
About the same time lightning struck the
spire of st. Aloysius Church, Newark, N. j.,
and did considerable damage, besides running
the massive organ. A barn in Springfield
avenue was set on fire and totally destroyed.
Herman MATHS, age forty-fve, was killed
by stroke Of lightning while at work in Sol
omon's leather factory, in Newark, N. j.
Five other worknen received painful shocks,
but will recover.
During the violent thunder storm. Mrs
Anne Quirk, aged sixty, of Eluwood, Mass,
fed in alarm from her house to q neighbor's,
where she seated herself directly under
a large pincushion which hung ON the
wall. In few moments flash of lightning
struck the cushion and passed into the body
of Mrs. Quirk killing her instantly The dc
ceased was widow and leaves daughter
Reports from St. Albans, VT, show a largo
amount of damage done by the storm. Six
bridges were carried away. Lambert's saw
mill was completely ruined. The town it.
self losses nearly $1,000 on roads and bridges,
and the losses to individual farmers in the
destruction of crops will run into the thou
sands. Smaller outbuildinSs and stock were
swept away in Sheldon, Vt, and at other
places in the county bridges were swept away,
SO that the loss will be very high.
A destructive washout occurred at Holyoke,
Mass, during the storm which swept out
about. 100 feet of the solid stone wall on
the east side of the lower level canal de-
moIshed about twenty-five or thirty feet
of the west wing Of the water power
company's Cabot street mill, and wrecked q
bridge owned by the Connecticut River Rail-
road which Spanned the canal.
As nearly as could be estimated, the loss is
from S75 600. to 100000.