Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-15
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VI" "AMfED IHE nOAIs :" Rash Act of aYoung Man-One Person Drowned-FOur Other Lives Im-

periIled.
 NEW YORK, Sept 14.-Last night par ty of five men and two young women went out for row in the bay off Fort Ikamil- ton. After a time one of the men insisted upon being put ashore, declaring he would upset the boat if his wishes were not com piled with. He then arose and either fell or jumped overheard, grasping the gun -wale and overturning the craft. One of the women, supposed to be Lizzie Oker of Brooklyn, age about 9, was drowned. Four of the men and the remaining woman was rescued by boat from the shore. The man who capsiZed the boat is sup posed to have reached the shore in safety.
 FOUR MEN:sTRUCK DEAD. Lightning Enters House in Which
 Were One Hundred Italians - \
 Fearful Struggle Ensued as the
 Frenzied Men Rushed from the
 Building Through One Door, and
 TramPled over Their Dead Conn
 rades.
 NEW YORK, Sept. 14.-A terrific storm passed over Sodom near Brewster's, on the Harlem railroad yesterday afternoon about 3 o'clock, and four Italians were in stantly killed by lightning.
 The storm was an unusually severe one, and at times approached the fury of n hurricane The lightning flashes were continuous, and the noise of the thunder was almost deafening, while the rain fell in torrents. Nearly one hundred Italians were at work on the new reservoir at Sn1nr,, and when the rnln hppan fn fall | they hastened for shelter to small house | near by. It contained but one apartment, | and scarcely afforded standing room for | the frightened Italians.
 The storm increased in fury, and with it the terror of the Italians. They felt that their last moment had come, and the sway l ing of the house caused by the wind made them fear that it would fall down and crush them. Many began to moan, some were imnloring their patron saints, and all seemed to have lost their reason. They had not been in the house over fifteen minutes when there was a binding flash the thunder pealed louder than ever, ant there was one wild cry from the Italians Four of them lay stretched on the foo dead, and when the others realized tha their companions were killed the, rushed from the house. There was bu one small door through which they coult | pass, ana the hundred men StroVe to S' through it at the same time. In the ter rife crush the weaker ones were throw down, and their cries of pain as their com panions passed over them added to tn horror of the scene. Many of them wer bruised and cut, but none were serieusl, injured.
 When the Italians left the house man.
 of them ran for half mile through tn
 drenching rain before they were stoppe
 by sheer exhaustion. They were to
 frightened to return to the house, an
 either they were unable to remember tn ) names of the men who had been killed, c
 they had left too hurriedly to ascertai
 them. Coroner Sutton of White Plain
 was notified, and last night left for til , scene of death. es e A curious fact was that the house ws T not shattered by the lightning and did nc ? even take fire. It seems that the fluid el tered through an aperture not more tha
 an inch wide in the roof and passed throug E the four men, who were huddled in hes
 just below, and then entered the groun,
 About half mile from the house in whit
 the Italians were killed Q woman who :. name has not yet been ascertained w working in the kitchen when bolt strut y the house and ske was stunned by it's fore . Luckily it did not set the house on fiji = :, At the last report the woman had not y n recovered consciousness.