The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-11
STORM FLOODS IN JERSEY.
DEGDLY ELECTRIC CURRENTS STRAY
EEOH POLE AND WIRE.

1--WE Horses Killed In Ssunrk while wad-
ing in the Streets Without Touching .
wirc-LIektntns Strikes q Hearsc ut n
Funeral and MnnJ Houses struck.
Fully two and one hall inches Of vater fell in
Newark yesterday morning In one hour and
between Ave aud ton O'Clock moro than
three inches fell The early dovnpour was 20
sudden that sewers in many parts OF the city
were inadequate to carry the water Oh. and
hundred az cellars we're flooded flush with the
sidewalk. Tho damage will loot up at least
$4,000. Sewer manhole covers were thrown
OF in many places By the pressure OF water.
which. when freed. eushed up in solid columns
Ave or six feet high and flooded the streets.
Five horses were killed by electric currents
In different parts OF tho city by leakage from
electric light or trolley wires and without
actual contact with the wires. One team be-
longing to a farmer named lyman. OF Rosee.
fell dead while wading through pool OF water
near the Frelinghuysen avenue crossing ofthe
Lehieh Valley Railroad. while on the way to
Waverley. A broken wire hung down into tho
pool into which the horses waded. Two horses
belonging to Asa Earl were killed while hauling
licorice root on Bloomfield avenue and the
driver was slightly shocked.
The driver. Charles Caine. saw dog run
yelping away from steel trolley pole at the
curb. and was laughing. when his team came
opposite the polo and dropped dead in their
tracks. at the same time Caine felt sharp
shock and sprang back upon his load
One OF the Borden Company's milk wagons
was passing through Washington avenue
toward Beleve at 8 O'Clock without driver,
he having jumped from the wagon to deliver
bottle OF milk. When the driver returned to
the street he saw one OF the horses leap into
the air and fall llfeess This horse did not
come within twenty feet OF A live wire. There
was broken wire in contact with one of the
steel poles at the curb line
HEARsE STRUCK AT wEEHAwKEN.
During the thunderstorm yesterday morn
ing. bolt OF lightning struck n hearse in front
OF st. Lawrence's Roman Catholic Church, on
the Hudson Boulevard. Weehawken. and
shattered one OF the glass sdas OF the vehicle.
The hearse was driven to the church at nine
O'Clock with the body OF 15-year-old James
Sullivan, Of 80 Chestnut street, Weehawk en-.
who was killed on Tuesday by a drill engine
on the Erie Railroad. It was followed by a
dozen coaches.
When the funeral party arrived at the church
| rain was pouring down In torrents. The coffin
| had just been removed from the hearse and
was being carried into the church when there
was a loud crash accompanied by a fash OF
| lightning. At the same moment a pane ofglass
| in the hearse fell to the pavement. Frightened
by the noise. the team OF horses attached to the
hearse started on The horses were caught
| three blocks away and brought back to the
| church without any further damage being
| done.
FLOODS AT JERSEY CITY AND BAYoSNE.
| The streets in nearly every part OF Jersey City
| were flooded by the rain yesterday and cellars
| In the lower part OF the city we're inundated.
nl f,ur 1apn
Newark avenue and Sixth street and lake
| form ed on the West Shore Railroad tracks AT
| Newark avenue and Seventh street.
| From midnight until noon there was regis
| tered fall Of 3O-1OO inches OF rain in Ba-
| yonne yesterday. All the ow-lying districts
| OF the city were inundated At the intersec-
| ton OF Avenue and East Twcnty-seventh
street the surface water collected until the
| fire hydrant was completely submerged. Ave-
| nue. d. the main thoroughfare. was impossible
| at the intersections ~ many cross streets.
| Traffic on the North Jersey Company's electric
| trolley road between Bayonne and Jersey City
was interrupted by the flood. Much damage
| was done to tradesmcn with places OF business
| in Easements Several fine shade trees were
struck and wrecked by lightning. but no per
| son was injured.
| I1GnTYING STRIKES THE ORANGES.
| ORANGE. y. j., Aug. lO.-Thc Oranges eXpe-
| rieIced the two heaviest storms Of the season
| this morning. and business was almost entirely
| SUSPENDED and tho streets were deserted foI
| two hours. Trolley cars were stalled for over
| an hour and lightning played along the wires
| continually In East Orange. lightning struck
| the residences % IOrton McDermott, OF -
| Walnut street: Elwari $. Grain. OF u Haw
| thorne avenue. and Robert Kenyon. OF l2S
| Hollywood avenue. The Kenyon house was
| struck during the earlier storm and bricks from
| tho chimneys broke windows in two adjoining
| houses In all three cases. chimncys were
demolished and roofs damaged. No fires were
started by the lightning. and no oae was in
jured. as all three houses are at present unoc'
cupicd.
South Orange was wholly cut or from trolley
| communication with Newark this moruing be
| cause Of washnuts along the route in NailSburg
| AZ Sanford street, the water rose to several fce
| above the tracks and the current was SO swift
| that Wagons could not be driven M til" hill
When the rnin coascd, and the foods went
| down. tho trolley tracks were entirely covered
with stones and dirt A gang OF men was i'm
meiiatoy employed to clear the tracks, and a
10 O'Clock the first car went through. From
Shooting Park to Grove street. there was
food and heaps OF dirt piled high on tho tracks
| al on IN M the tracks