New-York tribune., 1902-08-10

havoc and II was this effort together with the
fact that the girl was standing in the centre OF
the roadway when stunned and burned by the cleo
trio current. that made the case an unusually
prominent one OF course, the principal reason for
the great attention given to it was the fact that
there were few reports on record up 10 that time
in which lightning was given as the cause OF
serious fatalities in the city streets
Since these cases thunderstorms have apparently
done much greater harm to people Of this city.
without the increase of fatal serious cases at
tracing widespread attention and causing comment
1t is thought this lack of interest may be due
to the fact that the majority of people seem 70
hold firmly the idea that indoors or outdoors.
within the city limits is safe place in a thunder
4(y3es FORM a pTo1ecti6n which is almost lightning
5Iroof The lightning may shaTter blocks on pillars
of the buildings. may wreck steeples may cut UP
all sorts Of peculiar pranks with trolley wires ana
things, and there is less danger they think. or
person being killed or seriously aurt oy ooIt OF
lightning than years ago. when the city had many
cor1f1g "a tae opinions now held BY medical men
frequently called upon 10 decide the cause OF death
rect one For years John Fame has been the
keeper Of the city Morgue. and one Of his duties
persons whose bodies are brought 10 the Morgue.
in anv case an autopsy is held by the coroner's
physician. and the findings OF the physician stand
as the official report
1t is hardly likely that the findings in such case
would escape the attention OF tane. for ne Is sci
a struck by lightning while waiting for
train the downtown station or the IllFd-dVe
elevated line Oue-hundreG-a and-sfXteentn-st Ac-
curdIng 10 the report. the man was knocked rrom
the platform the tracks ana rev seconds later
almost ground pieces by train The body or
the man was taken TO the MOrgue In striking the
tracks The man third rail and il is thought
that II he was killed by the lightning he would
have killed by the current from the electric
rail At the MOrgue II plainly seen that he mad
received electric shock before the train ran over
him. do you think the was killed by hglt-
ning2'' Tribune reporter asked Fame a1ter the
accident NO: 7 think he bending over the
track when a lightning fash dazed him and caused
him his balance As a result or the nervous
shock from which suffering he Jumped up
in the air and he landed on the tracks ON striking
the third rail he instant death
Another recent death by lightning was that OF
Denis Cash. d Iaborer. sixty years old. who Ived
wfrh mis- TWO sons in the basement at No Us East
auI-sPyerrh-st He returning
from work aad going down the stairs leading
from the sidewalk his apartments Wnen ne was
struck. There nothing 20 show now the oqit
bi- fhe man or the Il took IN passing 20 th
ground a physician from a hospital VINO examined
Tba hodv said he could find mark made oy the
{Igbruiur In no death from lightning reported n
rLs -irv this summer have signs that an eiec-
rt boIT really caused death been found except tae
casa occurred in the outlying part OF the city.
ba vital statistics show that on an average elgnt
hundred persons annually killed by gntlinS IN
the United States. one person IN s0.H" Oh 0le
population