Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-30

ATLANTIC Cry, N. j., Aug. 60
Shortly after noon to-day, and while
tine surf was black with people, heavy
clouds began rolling in from seward
and the sky was soon completely OBJ.
secured. The clouds brought with them
breeze like the breath of SIMEON,
hot and oppressive.
No thunder or lightning heralded the
coming storm, but at exactly 2 o'clock
the clouds were rent asunder without a
moments warning, and a peal of thun-
der, equal to the report of hundred
cannon, startled bathers and pedestrians,
and Jagged forks of lightning shot in
every direction. There was only the
one startling report and the one flash,
but they left destruction and panic in
their wake.
WHAT THE BOLT DID.
One bolt struck the big alarm bell
which crowns the tower in the City
Hall lot and caused every fire bell in
the city to ring in unison. Besides
bringing the fire department to the
front ready for active service, that one
| stroke of the bells sounded the solemn
death knell of William Carr, aged 20,
who resides in the rear of 1902 South
Mississippi avenue, this city.
Young Carr was bathing at the foot
of Florida avenue with neighbor, Mrs.
Mary Forum. He was chatting gayly
with his companion, when one of the
lightning bolts struck MIN directly in
| the left temple and coursed down his
side. Without sigh or sound of any
kind, the stricken man fell backward in
the water.
1T KILLED HIM.
Mrs. Forum, who was holding him
by the hand, felt the shock slightly, but
the horror of the catastrophe more thar
anything else oyercame her, and She
fell by the side of her late escort in d
dead faint.
Parties who were standing near seilec
the couple and dragged them to thu
shore, where DIR. Thompson was hastily
summoned He found Cars left sid,
scared, burned and blackened from heat
to foot. The flesh was still warm and
in fact, remained SO for nearly an hour
but life was entirely extinct, and tho
DOCTORS opinion is that death was in
Simultaneous.
WENT INTO MYSTERIES.
1t took nearly an hour to restore Mrs
Fornin 10 consciousness, and when sh,
finally came to she was almost imme
diately stricken with violent tit o
Mysteries, and annsthctics had to be use(
to quiet her. She is resting easily now
however, and will recover,
Cars body, presenting ghastl,
sight, lies at the establishment OF al
undertaken, where it was visited ant
identified this afternoon by the mothe
aud brother Of the dead man. He wa
unmarried, but was the principal sup
port of his widowed mother.
All along the beach the fearful thun
der-clap caused CONSERVATION, and for
while the sturdy life-guards were take
to their utmost aiding frightened wome
and children from the surf.
FATAL ACCIDENTS AvERTED.
The excitement was intense an
several fatal accidents were narrowl
avertcd. Harry Crane of Eleventh an
r Montgomery avenue Philadelphia, win
: was lying on the sand at the foot q
Ocean avenue, was stricken with hear
failure when the destructive thunder
, bolt crashed, and was carried TO Jacl
! sons bathing establishment on til
j shoulders of four ltfe-guards in coma
r tose state. lie recovered later in tn
afternoon.
: A young girl tainted in the waite
: near the Ocean Pier and was carried /
her bath-house by Two young men VII
i were in her company. She recoyerc
: soon afterward.
5 One Of the lightning's branches struc
e the power house of the electric railwa
and burnt out dynamo. Travel WI
consequently interrupted for half hol
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