Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-25

Mrs F. L. Sunburn at the corner of Linwood and Hart streets was struck by lightning yesterday afternoon. The bolt struck the chimney and travelled down to the kitchen, which was filled with soot. No further damage was caused.
 Wethersfeld, Aug 25.-Lightning made two hits in this town. A barn owned by S. Frank Willard on Broad street was struck and burned. Ten tons of hay was stored in the barn. but the property was fully insured. Lightning also struck the chimney on the house on Hartford avenue owned by the Standish sisters and occupied by Frank Fuller for harness shop. It did no damage aside from knocking few bricks out and splintering part of the foor Mir Fuller was at work in the shop and was so stunned by the shock that he was unable to speak for some time.
 Bloomfield. Aug 25.-A bolt of lighr- ming struck the hennery of Mrs E.. G. Fowler and killed one hen out of over a hundred, but did no other damage. A barn owned by John D. Smith was struck and burned with all its con tents, which included fifteen tons of hay; insured. A tobacco shed that ad- joined it was also burned, but there was no tobacco in it. A large elm tree in the same district was struck. Half an acre of tobacco near the Smith property and belonging to Mir Smith was ruined.
 Collinsyille, Aug 25.-Lightning played various pranks here and among its eccentricities made attacks on two brothers who were three miles apart. Edward Southey, who is employed by Edward Smith, the plumber, was with Mir Smith working in the cellar of Will liam Parmelee's house fixing some pipes. Lightning struck just outside of the house, followed the pipe into the cellar and knocked Southey down n flight of stairs. Mir Smith was not hurt Southey was taken home and Dr Edward HOtchkiss, who attended him. found that one arm was para lyzed, but that he would probably re- cover the use of 1t.
 At almost the same instant Henry Southey. brother, was standing with Cato Myers and some other men and n team under shed at the Canton Center creamery. The horse began to dance around and finally fell down. Balls of fire began playing around the spot and the men were slightly shock cd. 1t was afterward found that an overflow electric wire had broken at the spot.
 The rainfall during an hour of the hardest rain was 2.97 inches. The high wind tore tree limbs apart and the lightning struck in several places.
 Poquonock, Aug 25.-Poquonock. with it's usual good luck, escaped the ravages of the storm, although it look cd at one time as if the district was doomed. About o'clock the district was threatened with storms from three different quarters. west, south and east, and tobacco growers looked on the contending elements with fear and trembling. Fortunately, however, they suffered from only the tail end of n gale with about enough of rain to lay the dust. Not single hall stone fell and the tobacco crop suffered no damage.
 Nearly all the crop is ripe and top ped and the few whirling gusts of wind unaccompanied by violent rain were not enough to blow the sturdy. full grown plants over.
 From Windsor the damage reported Is considerable and few pieces of to- haccos between Cook Hill and the Hartford city line escaped some in- jury. From inquiries it was ascer- tained that the usual hail zone in pre- vious years varied from an eighth to a half mile. but yesterdays hail belt seemed to zigzag in several places from two to three miles wide.
 Unionville. Aug 25.-During the thunder storm here yesterday after. noon William Shaw of Brooklyn, \. r.. was struck by lightning and in- stantly killed. while companion. Hugh M. Chesney of Newark. \. J., who stood beside him, was spared.
 The men have been visiting in Far mington with their wives at the home of Hugh Chesney. who is an uncle of Chesney. Yesterday morning they came to Unionville to spend the day and in the afternoon they went to the hall grounds to see game. The thun- der storm came up and all the specia- tors fled except Chesney and Shaw. They sought shelter from the storm under the grand stand.
 According to Chesney. Shaw was handing him a cigar and they were preparing to smoke when a flash of lightning knocked them down Ches- ney came to later and found Shaw un- conscious He ran to q nearby house and returned with assistance. but Shaw was dead The grand stand was splintered all about where the two men sought shelter.
 Shaw lived on Sixth avenue. Brook hn. and was e9 years old. He was married about a year ago. His wife fs in Pennington where the body was taken last night. He was secretary for E. R. Thomas. the wealthy hors.. man of New York eity.
 South Manchester. Aug 25-Clinton Tryon of this town had a close call yesterday afternoon from being killed He was driving to An.iover and he'd jusf reached the edge of the town when the storm overlook him Seeiu< a shed hearty he started fo drive un der and then lest consciousness. Whru