The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-08-21
WILLIAMSBCRGH LIGHTNING.
1t Has Fun with Flagstaff and Flsgstoues
md MIxes Up IL Fine Fruit stand.

1t Has Fun with FIagstnns and Flsgstoues
and Mikes Up Fine Fruit stand.
Lightning which came with Saturday night
storm struck the flagstaff on the lithograph-
ing establishment OF Kinds. Ketcham 4 Co.
in North Third street and Wythe avenue VIII
liamsburgh. aud smashed it into splinters
Then 1t skipped block to North Second street
above Wythe avenue. whore 1t ruined a similar
pole on tho ale brewery OF Streeter& Dennison.
At Paul Weidmann's brewery. North First
and Berry streets. the lightning carried away
the letter W from the weather vane and took
the exhaust pipe route to tho fire room. George
Haverly. tho fireman. was stopping over a tub
OF wat"r almost directly under the waste pipe.
He says that the water suddenly left tho tub
and wet his face. and that at the same instant
he got something like John l.. Sullivan blow
on the back OF his head and neck which almost
stunned him. Tho lightning escaped through
the open door and chased itself around the
street
On straight limo from the door in tho fire
room. on the southwest corner OF Grand and
Berry street; is little fruit stand, presided
street. Ditrsno said Yesterday that he was
struck by the lightning. There may be those
seen the place can deny that lightning or
something else struck the fruit stand. Ditrano
ns bs
ter days formed the component parts of the
finest fruit stand on the north side. Ditrano
was sitting on u chair beside his stand when
the lightning struck. He was picked up in the
gutter unconscious.
4 pyrotechhical display followed the other
lightning 4 large ball of fire came around
and lit up Berry street from Grand to North
Third. II hung shy ly above the street for
about thirty seconds before it descended.
Then it sat down on the sidewalk and ground
few OF the fagstones into sand leaving n
gray and blue mark. which was being curl
ously examined by many people yesterday.
Mr. HagRn OF 81 South Second street took
and DR. RGs avenue when the storm came. His
steel stemmed umbrella was tightly rolled.
and he grasped it in the centre Lightning
struck the handle. twisted 1t out OF shape and
knocked the umbrella from his hand without
touching Hagan.
That part Of Willamsburgh known as the
Hooded district lying between Lynch street
md Flushing avenue Ind Marcy avenue to
Ihroop avenue suffered severely. Nearly ey-
cry cellar was flooded and the damage will
well under water yesterday morning and hip
rubber boots were In demand. Passengers on
cars OF the Harrison avenue line had to stand
on the seats when The ears forded the floods
A aye-in occurred at the junction Of Myrtle
and Knickerbocker avenues during tho rain
cross ng the Myrtle avenue tracks from Knick-
erhocker avenue. The horses sank to their
necks. and the car left the tracks and toppled
to one side. 1t was necessary to extricate the
recent excavation for sewer in Knickerbocker
avenue. The rush Of water through the
avenue sewer WAS so great
that IN nlaces the manhole covers were forced
off, Many celia in that neiRhborhood were
hooded and the o water In SONG Of the dwellings
the damage In Williamsburgh alone will |
amount to more than $50, 600.