The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-13
Struck By LIGHTNING
NINE PERSONS HURT UNDER ONE
TREE IN BOROUGH OF
THE BRONX
HEAT STILL OPPRESSIVE
Burlington, To-, Suffered and Swell
tered Under MercuriaI Figures
That Approached the
Century Point.

! NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-Nine persons
who hurriedly sought shelter under some
trees and bushes in the woods in the
Bronx section, during the storm this aft
ernoon, were struck by the same flash of
hghtning. The persons injured were:
James Brown, a Hungarian tailor, of
this city, his wife and five children, and
Bertha Leschowitz and Bertha Silver
man, neishbors of the Browns.
Ali the injured persons were taken to
ordham hospital. At late hour tonight
the attending physicians said they
thought Mrs. Brown, two of her children
and Bertha Silverman could not posi-
bly, live. The Silverman girl was the
worst injured of all. OF Bertha Lescho-
WITT, they said she would either die or
| become hopelessly insane.
The Brown family decided early in the
week to spend the day in a little picnic
of their own and selected 1.-The Woods" as
a desirable place. They invited the Les
choWitz and Silverman girls to go with
them. Mr.. Brown and his party had
just sat down to lunch when it began to
rain and blow. They were all under a
large oak tree, and the father told them
10 seek shelter some place else, as he
was afraid of lightning hitting the tree
Part OF them ran down little pathway
uhoer a DUH. They had hardly settled
themselves when there was a b,indines
nash and crash. Three children on top
OF the bluH We're hurled into the street
| below and lay there unconscious
Mr. and Mrs. Brown and Bertha Les
chowitz were thrown fifteen feet and
were also rendered unconscious. The
baby, whom they held in their arms,
strangely Wi I;,,I,k
injuries.
-Four persons were killed in Queensbor-
ough and two have small chance of re-
covery. Thomas w. Dunno of Flushing,
L. l., fourteen years of age, took refuge
from the rain under big tree. Lightning
struck the tree and he was instantly kill
cd
In Flushing, was hit by lightning and set
on fire. Valentine rushed into the barn
| TO save his cattle. He was struck by a
railing timber and crushed to death. CIar-
ence Weeks, a farm hand employed by
Mr.. Valentine, was in the barn before the
lightning struck 1t, and has not been seen
since.
Chauncey Laya, sixteen years Of age.
was out walking with his father in Core
ma when the storm came up They start
ed to run for shelter. A broken electric
wire fell across their path and the bow
became entangled in it and was burned to
death.
Fannie Byrnes, seventeen years of age,
was badly burned and shocked during
the storm while riding on a Brooklyn
Heights trolley car. The arm of the troll
ley broke and fell upon her shoulder Her
condition Is critical
In running from the storm in Brooklyn,
Angelina Rosa, thirty years of age, STEP
ped upon a live electric wire and was
badly shocked. Her condition is crit
cal.
Al Tenefiaon and a young woman were
so seriously injured by a stroke of light
ming that they will probably die.
When the storm came up Mrs Nouthe
her two daughters and another woman
were sitting in a grape arbor. A bolt Of
lightning struck them and killed Nellie
Nouthe. Lizzie Nouthe was frightfully
burned about the face and body and her
mother was also seriously burned. The
visitor, whose name was not known, was
also burned, and had her nose cut off by
the flash. The injured are said to be in
grave danger.