Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-08-18
EASERTN STORMS.
Great Damage Done in New York
and Massachusetts.
Lightning Causes the Death of Several
Persons and Burns Many Build
ings - Streets in Boston
Turned Into Rivers.
IN NEW YORK.

New YORK, Aug. 13-The showers Of
rain which came to the city early
Thursday evening greatly relieved the
sweltering denizens of the town. The
downpour continued at irregular inter
walls for some hours and was accompa-
MED by an electric demonstration late
in the evening. Severe electrical storms
have prevailed at various points
near this city during the last two
or three days and the damage from
lightning has been heavy, especially in
the counties along the Hudson river
and in New Jersey. In Beaver Dam,
Orange county, during the storm
Wednesday night the house of John
Edwards was struck by lightning
and Edwards daughter and grand
child and Harvey Edwards, relative,
were killed. Others in the house were
severely shocked. A dog crouching I'M
der table was killed. Barns were
burned and cattle killed near Ellen
vile. A severe electric storm passed
over Ulster county, n. Y, Wednesday
night. In Kingston a number of build
ings were struck by lightning, and
fully dozen barns were burned in adj
joining towns.
The persistent warm wave again
made people uncomfortable Thursday,
although the succession of local thun-
der storms mitigated the severity of
the heat somewhat. The maximum
temperature was 81 degrees, which was
reached at 8 p. m. The following
deaths from the heat were reported
Thursday: Henrietta S. Conklin and
aev. Thomas Mulvaney, Brooklyn.
FLOOD AT THE hub"
Boston, Aug. 13.-The terrific thun-
derstorm which swept across eastern
Massachusetts Friday morning broke
all records as producer of rain and
lightning. In Boston the fall of rain in
the first ten minutes of the shower
measured $500 of an inch and the
total fall for the three hours during
which it rained was 29-1oO
inches. Many stores were flooded in
Boston, the heaviest sufferers being H.
H. Cotton & Co., carpet dealers, whose
stock was damaged to the extent of
SIS, 900. fremont street, in Boston,
was in some places flooded from curb
to curb, while all were temporarily
transformed into rivers
The lightning was unusually severe
in Boston and vicinity. From the re-
turns now in the record of the light
nings work in three hours is as fol-
lows: Number of dwellings and stores
struck, 81; number of barns, 8; num-
Der of persons killed, 2; number of per-
sons injured, Is. Fortunately there
were not many serious fires resulting
from the lightning's work, the barns
suffering the worst.
The fatalities occurred at Monument
Beach about o'clock. One bolt struck
two cottages. In one lived Rev. S. S.
Seward, of New York. In this cottage
the cook wat just getting kindling for
the fire and was in the basement
and was struck, falling forward to
the floor. She was found after
ward with the ak in her hand She
had just been cutting the kindling
wood. The bolt, it is supposed, struck
the tower of the cottage, then descend
ed to the basement, doing its fatal
work there. 1t jumped to the next
CObtdScs o lSCI QlSIdut, WHERE IL JOTG
the woodwork and ripped off clap
boards, and, entering the house, killed
Mrs. George Alden, young woman
whose husband is a tin dealer at
Brockton. Mrs Alden was in one of
the chambers engaged in dressing one
of her children at the time of the
stroke. Mrs. Alden was 2s years old
and well known in society circles of
Brockton. The cook at the Seward
cottage was Ellen Eagan, of Green
Point, L. /.
son of Mr.. Seward was in the
tower of the cottage at the time of the
disaster, but was not injured beyond
receiving severe shocks. The interior
of both cottages was badly damaged,
but no fire resulted. The other cases
where persons were injured were scat
tered all over the suburban cities and
towns Init none of them We're SeriOuS