The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-23
WORK OF THE LIGHTNING.
oIrTTERIys BoLTs SCORE HITs IN
4 DEUCE OF RAIN.

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rvs BuIdiuE. ana = FinEpois struck In tho
Gre.ter new York-A Woman Goes Mao
,,,r,rr the s~torm-Geyper In Forty.secona
street Attributed to n Lightning stroke.
J.r-ey Is nothing II not spectacular. This APP
r,,.s especially to her summer crop of thunder.
,,orms. She let one loose n few minutes before
ao'olock last evening in some wild spot beyond
the North River. II began to manifest Itself to
soIks OH the Battery wall about ten minutes past
A II wrote its autograph on tho western sky
IN the unmistakable dust OF its lair.
while the brisk squall that preceded the cleo.
,,icnl part Of the disturbance was getting in its
vork the dusty roads Of Jersey looked as IL they
hod been set on end to obscure tho vision OF resi-.
d.nts hereabouts. The horizon for q few min
r,.s looked not unlike sure-enough ramparts Of
s.rtb. through which tho lightning from the
hidden storm clouds cleaned like muEzle flashes
Of battery.
TIL. delugo that came after the dust beat II
1ozn. and revealed to tho observer on this side
a, the river the real color Of tho clouds. They
zero dashed and stabbed and scared with
electrical incandescence. With every slash there
vas a reyerberation that came nearer and near
Ar. until the steel and stone and brick walls Of
mi, high. lowered island reechoed. and everybody
,.,med certain after q vivid fash and .
startling peal that some place in his near neigh
borhood had been struck. In several instances
he was right. In most instances tho bolts
simply bored holes or tore rents in the air.
There was a multitude awheel. and the storm
caught many in open places far from shelter. 1t
ala not spoil their pleasure for the day, as it
lasted not moro than twenty minutes. But 1t
VAS a fierce storm for its age. Tho water that
came with it had as much volume and more
force than several ordinary downpours. It sur.
prised the sewers, which were not built for
deluces, and they could not carry of the flood rs
quickly as 1t descended. Tho sewer mouths
overnowed and cutters widened to brooks.
The lightning has seldom been liyelier in tho
metropolitan district. Ono of the hits 1t made
was the fagpole OF the knickerbocker Athletic
Club at Forty fifth street and Madison avenue.
Il ripped SIX or eight feet Of s~plinters OF tho
pole. and incidentally refuted the aphorism that
lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
There was another hagpole in precisely tho Same
spot where the one is that was struck last
evening.
It's shafts at marks in this city. One of the shafts
found tho old a. ha s,',h w And ,i Knocked liked. It Eth, to
'' several r. iG persons as s Sn0t q so Roi Dart into a trench
in front Of the house building at S6s West
Fortysecond street, and an instant later q gey-
ser OF Croton shot up to the third story. That
was about $50 o'clock, and the water, which
an hour. helping the storm to choke the sewers.
INC man who turned the water OF said that he
did not believe that the jagged, two-and-a- half.
ming. He was Inclined to attribute it to the
pick Of a careless workman in the trench on
Saturday.
street, near Navy street. Brooklyn, Some one
turned in q fire alarm. Engine 10 dashed up
willoughby street. Tho suffering wire was
directly in the course OF the engine. Men ran
shouted to Driver John Mullaly 10 turn back.
Before tho driver saw the danger his team
was upon the ,sqoirming wire; 1t struck the
the stunned nigh horse to, its knees. Driver
Mullaly pulled tho frightened animal to its feet
and out OF danger. 1t dragged the carcass Of it,
% MSiH T'' pulled Ii: is so Il hard epV on the 'f lines snt th n0Ei ns
sprained his wrist and he was sent to the hos
pital for treatment.
roof was torn on. The house is owned b!
Bishop Mcdonnell and occupied by Mrs. Cath
Mrs. sarah VI. Gleason Of 23s West Nineteenth
street was returning home through the storm
from q walk with her daughter. There was
fash near her. and she was apparently stunned
told her daughter that her arm was injured 1
policeman called an ambulance =,
DR.. Tracy. who attended Mrs. Gleason. sale
trying to tear of her clothing when she was put
into the ambulance. She was taken to Bellevue
Hospital. 1t Is thought that the shock Of tn.
stable at the foot Of Jersey avenue, Jerse,
City, was set on fire by lightning and destroyed
was owned BY Richard G. Washburn 8
horses were saved. Damage. 81. 800.
During the storm a steam valve in tho Penn
sylvania Railroad Company's electric power
house at W arren street and Railroad avenue
jersey City. was blown out. Frank Dolan, ONT
OF the employees. received q severe shock ant
was taken home.