New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-26
DAMAGE BY AN ELECTRIC STORM.
PROBABLY FATAL EFFECT OF LIGHTNING on
LONG I.LAND.

LONG I.LAND.
Iindenhurst L. l.. sept. 25-DuIing the severe
electric storm which occurred here this morning the
house of Mabbitt Travis was struck by hSh'lhs ''u
burned to the ground The house had Deeh 'i"'oN'
entirely closed Us Mr. 1nvis's family had gone -
Brooklyn to their winter home, and the place was III
charge OF coloi.d man from Amityvillc. 1t Is saii
that this colorcd man has been burned to dcat anu
So his remains are still beneath the ruins lie 1883
on the property is $1,000. insured
brentwood L. l.. sept. 2j.-Durfng the ciectilc
storm last night cottage belonging 10 uic Asu'i
Hotel was struck by lightning ana burned. IhA 1888
is estimated at 81. 900. A horse owned by W. A.
Bales was also struck by lightning and Instantly
killed
South Norwall Conn, sept. 25-tspecia).-Llsh'-
ming played various pranks In and about this city dur
inc last nights thunder shower, and
in it's antics sobered drunAen man.
shocked one of exUnted states Treasurer
pyatt's borse-car cnductos shattc cd sew Ell
sturdy elm trees and burned down TWO large DhlhH'
The storm centre reached Norwalk about ii O'Clock
and The rain fell IN torrents. The thunder ana
lightning were ncessant Martin Kellogg cohuuc-
for on the Norwalk and south Norwalk horse rail
road who was sleeping I'm the cOmpany's Office on
Walls was awakened by the heavy peals Of thunder,
and a moment later balls -Of fire danced about inc
room the electric current giving him SHOCK uat
tumbled him out Of his chair. At about the same
time lanes J. Lund, Hungarian, Nille on DIS way
70 his home in West Ncrwalk, staggering under the
effects Of iiquor was passing elm tree when bolt
struck the tree. Lund vas almost petrihed by the
eboclx and hi, hair was sngcd. lie was so0eied In
an instant but did not frem the dazed condi-
lion In which he had been thrown for some time after
ward In Saugatuck the barns and stables OF the
Cedar Point House struck and the buildings,
which were grain. carriages, horses cows
and farm implements, we're destroyed. The fremen
rescued the live stock but the other contents were
hnrned A barn In New Canaan owned by l.. Il. 1T.
John was also fired BY the lightning and burned to
the ground II filled to the caves with the sea
sons crops.
Cape May Sept 25.--one of tho severest electric
storms that has ever visited this locality occurred after
midnight last night. A thunder bolt struck 'Hbsonr
cot age and Sheppsrds store. A watchdog In ue
'..-.. -placsc was instantly killed by the bolt.
schenectady sept. 25 (specla)-In the latter part
of the last summer several terrific electric storms
pssseA ever his section, burning property and killing
human beings and cattle. While one OF these was
raging John shavor, seventynine years old, former
emuaye of the schenectady Locomotive Works. was
sitting ut nm oucn window In the twostory cottae No.
az Jeferscn-st where he lived with his daughter. a
bolt struck the house, setting II a6re "hen the
flames were cxtnguished II VAS found That MI Shstor
who was still sitting by The wincsw, had received a
shock partisly paralyzing his right side, and ss
token OF It. there bszed on his right cheek below the
ere q scarlet circle the size Of halfdouar. last