New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-15
LIGHTNING DEALS DEATH.
MAN AND HORSE KILLED AT FLORAL
PARK.
SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED-PAssENGER
TRAIN HOUSES BARNS AND
TREES ALSO STRUCK

Hampstead. Long Island June IA (SpeciaD.-
An unusually severe electric storm passed over
this region to-day. One man was killed others
were struck. horses were killed. and train
buildings and trees were struck and torn by
lightning.
John Walters his brother Charles Walters
and Jacob STATED were struck by lightning in
the evening while endeavoring to find protection
from the storm that had overtaken them while
working in large field near Floral Park John
Walters was instantly killed. His brother and
Stated who is lad, were seriously injured but
VIII recover. The two large horses that were at
tached to the farm wagon were also instantly
killed. They dropped in their tracks without so
much as a movement Of a muscle
John Walters. who was killed, had his head
resting against the rim of the steel tire of the
wagon When the lightning struck the horses it
glanced aside and struck the steel tire The
bolt passed down Walters's spine. burning him
and tearing the clothing from him In shreds
His brother and Stated were unconscious for
some hours. They were taken home and Dr. G.
A Fensterer of Floral Park who is attending
them, says that he thinks they will recover
Their clothing also partly torn from their
bodies.
BOLT FROM A CLEAR SKY
The bolt that killed Walters and his team
came from apparently clear sky. The storm
seemed TO be some distance away.
One Of the cars of a train struck as it was
running between Floral Park and Garden City
Several women on the train became hysterical
and when the train reached Garden City they
from the train to their homes in the down
pour Of rain without waiting for their carriages
The large barn the country place of Theo-
dore A Havemeyer struck. Through the
efforts of the Meadow Brook Club members
who rode on horseback TO the fire and the meno
bers of the Hampstead Fire Department, the
house near the barn was saved. The barn was
burned TO the ground. The club members pres
ent, among whom George P Eustis Mr..
nochan Sidney Dillon Ripley and Oliver W.
Bird, entered the barn. and after fighting
against the smoke managed to get every one of
Mr.. Havemeyer-s horses from the stable. They
numbered about thirty. Two of the servants
were badly burned in leading the terrified horses
out.
bric-a-brac and furniture which stored in
the barn, lost. The loss is about $4,000.
It is covered by insurance.
The large house of Carroll F. Norton was also
struck. Lightning struck several places at
Queens. but injured.
MAN KNOCKED sENsELEss.
The house of John Conner, in Jackson-st.,
Hampstead, struck and the upper floors
were set on fire. While Mr. Conner and his fam
lily were endeavoring to extinguish the flames
q second bolt hit the roof, passed to the floor
below and shattered old bed. The bedpost
which cut hlrn severely and knocked him sense
less for hour For time after regaining
consciousness he was in a dazed condition.
The house OF S. V. Wood which is near the
large country home Of Oliver H. P Belmont, at
East Meadow Brook, struck, but through
the efforts of the servants employed the near
by country places the flames extinguished.
Several trees few feet from the Presbyterian
Church were split by lightning