The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-14

NEW YORK, Sept. ia heavy
storm struck City Island last night.
The display of lightning was terrific.
Judge Van Colt and a kinswoman,
Nine Albert, were on the veranda of
the judges house at High Island.
while the clouds were gathering and
the wind blowing higher. The judge
went into his orchard to secure tent
that was Tapping and Nine. Albert
finally decided to go into the house.
Struck Dead.
Just as she arose from her chair a
bolt of lightning struck her and she
fell dead. The electricity burned off
her eye brows and eye lashes, tore
her straw hat in tatters and melted
the pins in her hair. On the back porch
of the same house sat Joseph Alicotos,
veteran of the civil war. The same
bolt knocked the pipe he was smok-
ing out of his mouth. 1t then jumped
to a post three feet away and split
it into splinters. Alicotos was not hurt,
but the walls of the cottage We're
SCARED as if by red hot pokers.
The cyclone struck the village of
Cape Vincent just as a large excur-
sion, homeWard bound from the JEFF
ferson county fair at Watertown, was
about to take the boat for Kingston,
Ont. The Rome, Watertown & Ogdens-
burg railway station collapsed. George
Godfrey and Thomas Arneel, of Cape
Vincent, received injuries from which
they died. A large number of persons
were injured, several of whom it is
feared will die.
Scared Her Body.
The storm was particularly severe
at the east end of Long Island Just
before sunset the wind rose. Then
there was lull and it seemed as if
the heavens had opened. Rain came
down in torrents. while the sheets of
binding lightning frightened Women
and children and drove the bravest
men indoors. The wind, while it lasted.
had a hurricanes force. Trees were
leveled to the ground and telegraph
and telephone wires were blown down
in many places III the suburbs of New
York. The lightning struck in several
places.
AT Roselyn, Mrs. Oliver Bennett was
outdoors when the storm broke. The
lightning struck her and ran down her
right side, leaving blush black streaks,
but did not kill her
Several farm houses near Water
Town were struck by lightning and
burned. The roads were washed out
in places and fallen trees block the
highway in many parts of the country.
1t was the most severe storm in years,
although lasting only about an hour.
Burned n Barn.
The storm was the severest of the
season at Oyster Bay. Lightning
struck and burned barn, owned by
Thomas Young, jr., New York broker,
killed one of the horses and stunned
the coachman, Thomas Palmer, who
was unconscious for several hours.
AT West Sayville, Seymour Burr was
struck by lightning and severely
burned. His condition is critical Tele-
graph and telephone wires and poles
were broken down there and commune
cation was cut off
Telegraph wires and trees were blown
down at Port Jefferson and the force
of the wind smashed the plate glass
windows in some of the shops.
The heavy cover of Dr. Jones' water
tank was carried eighty feet by the
wind, where it was brought up against
a fence, demolishing it. Up the Hud-
son the storm took the form of a
whirlwind.
In Nyack many houses were flooded
and the streets were turned into
streams. Crosswalks were swept away
and deep ruts washed into the roads
Haverstraw also suffered, many
brick yards having been flooded.