The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-07-13
FRANKS OF THE LIGHTNING
DURING HEAVY THUNDER STORM
EARLY LAST EVENING.
No Serious Damage Dono in This City
A Hole Six Feet Deep Torn in sylvan
Avenue-Fingpole Shattered Mt ARM
strOng's Carriage FacfOry-Cnr Motors
Burned Out-The Storm About tho
frt,
State.

The storm which broke over this city
about S o'clock yesterday afternoon was
severe one while it lasted, and in
cluded torrents of rain, plenty of wind
and a good supply of thunder and light
ming. Heavy black clouds collected in
the southwest and west about 43O
o'clock. and it looked as though there
was going to be a big time in the city,
The clouds collected faster and faster,
and grew blacker and blacker until 8
o'clock, when the first rain fell The
wind blew in spasmodic gales and the
streets at $50 o'clock were practically
deserted as the rain was falling In
sheets.
The heart Of the storm seemed to be
north of New Haven, and probably no
little damage was done by wind and
lightning in that part of the state. The
lightning caused little damage in this
city, but no serious accidents resulted
from it,
A big elm tree on Edgewcod avenue
between Howe and Dwight streets was
struck by lightning and was splintered
badly. The thunder also caused a rum
away in that vicinity about s o'clock.
The team belonged to a Howe street
grocer. and it's contents was thrown all
over the street.
The lightning struck in several places
in the city but In no case was any SER
ious damage done. One bolt struck the
flagstaff on the top of M. Armstrong
& Co.'S carriage factory on lower Chap
el street. The pole was shivered, and
the splnters, some of them large ones,
We're sent flying in every direction. An
italian woman was just crossing the
street in front of the factory building
and one large splinter was hurled to the
street directly in front of her, narrowly
missing hitting her. She was greatly
frightened by the shock of the lightning
striking so close by. and was douby
frightened by the big splinter striking
so close to her. She gathered up her
skirts and ran like deer, screaming
at the top Of her voice. The last seen
of her by those who happened to wit
ness the scene, she was sprinting
around the corner Of Chapel and Hamil-
ton streets.
Those in the grocery store of Freder-
ick Lutz on Sylvan avenue and persons
living In that vicinity We're startled
during the height Of the storm by an
extremely sharp and blilliant flash of
lightning instantly followed by a terri
tlc clap of thunder. People In the vicin-
tty ran to the doors to see where the
bolt had struck, for they knew that 1t
must be nearby. They found it had
struck in the street directly In front of
Lutz's grocery store and that an irreg-
llar hole about six feet deep had been
torn in the street About the same time
Motorman Keefe of the Sylvan avenue
car line, whose car was some distance
below the point where the lightning
struck the street, received q severe
shock from the bolt, which had evident
ly followed along the rails to the car
from the place where it struck in the
street. Keefes arm was considerably
lamed, but otherwise he was not niur-
ed
During the storm the motors of sew
aral cars on both the Fair Haven and
Westville and Winchester avenue lines
were burned out The fire alarm service
IF the fire department is usually badly
crippled by heavy electrical storms, but
n last evenings storm only one circuit
was burned out