The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-14

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I, avenue apd Carson street, COMMISSIONS;
4 George Bozzio Of 28S West Twenty seventh
1 street, left arm broken: Maggie Roose,
\ a. Year, old, Of TAO East lb6th street. right
4 ode and right knee injured; Agnes Carter,
\ colored. OF 2Ob West Sixtieth street, and her
two children slightly hurt; Mr.. and Mrs,
Emil Kolb and Mrs. Marie White OF go
\ West ileth street, shocked and bruised; Mrs.
1 james Nolan Of 24s West Twenty-ninth
4 street. shocked; conductor and motorman
slightly hurt
N TWO coNEY ISLAND CARS HIT.
"a lightning hit Lorimer -Tompkin ave-
Z nue. car at Church and Flatbush avenues,
Flatbush zgSassed shTGsgh she car sb nn
! Half the passengers Jumped from the car
4 One man who was standing by the con,
!. thrown over the dashboard: A man be-
!. couldn't move or cry for help. He had a
paper covered package under his arm;
3 The lightning shriveled the paper and
4 soorched the contents. Half a dozen women
from the car tainted In drug store close
Jacob schlagmann OF 1888 Myrtle avenue.
Brooklyn, was severely burned on the face.
Abraham Bieber, 8 years old, Same address.
sustained similar Injuries. John Conroy
q 100 Richardson street; Aiss E az q h 70
pont street suffered from shock. Schlag-
L mann and the Bieber child we're taken to
(. Flatbush Hospital. The car. which was
! going to Coney Island, was disabled and
Ten 70 minutes nj later lightning bolt hit
car "a Of the same line at Gravesend and
). F'ourtesnth avenues Flatbush. The car
I, was filled with Williamsburg people bound
J: for Coney Island The shock threT Jean
avenue from the car. Miss Mclaughlin
! wrenched her ankle. The women were
3 taken home in coaches. Other passengers
were injured, but they declined medical
Lightning struck a trolley. car in Long
: Island City on which the only passengers
were sigmund Feuchtwanger, a lawyer.
his wife and little son: The electricity
q large hole In Mrs. Feuchtwanger's dress,
) but did not injure her or any OF the others
YOUNG CHURCHwoMAN KILLED IN BOAT
4, HOUSE
Jeanette q. Freer Of AOs East is2d street
was killed and seven others who were
eheltering IN Marshall's boathouse at the
Z street, were burned and shocked by q bolt
+ that struck the house. Miss Freer, Morti-
I mer Wardell, who Is an employee Of Charles
. G. Gates q Co.; Walter Gombey OF ~ Charles
M o% Of 100 K KsssD s .; ss
Eighth avenue were about going for q sail
: in the sloop yacht Mavise, owned ~ W. +.
Ridley, who was friend Of Miss Freer.
Mr.. Ridley was just south Of the boatho,se
With his yacht but the party d1dns want bne
to wait Just about that time the river was
( dotted with all sorts Of small craft which
were running for shore in hurry.
Mrs. Lottie Marshall was making up sand,
Florence Cantrell. a twelve-year-old girl.
who lives at 5l4 West 126th street and who
was visiting the Marshalls, was helping her.
Miss Freer was sitting at a table inside
! with Mr.. Newkirk. Marsha II and the Others
were on the veranda. At about $50 o'clock
lightning ripped through the roof, destroyed
a partition and ran down the wal, burned
up two paintings and killed Miss Freer in.
stanty. Newkirk. across the table from
her was knocked sense!ess, and everybody
4 lightning. according TO Mr.; Marshall,
spread all over the boathouse in a
\ glare OF green and white flame Mrs:
Marshall was burned about the arms and
treiI's face was scorohed and her neck and
the upper part of her body were burned.
Marshall and Newkirk who were the first
torecover, telephoned to the j. Hood Wright
Hospital for an ambulance. DR.. Darling
enw as soon as he got there that nothing
did not disfigure her, save for large burn
on the breast. DR.. Darling treated Florence
Cantrell and Mrs. Marshall, who refused to
20 to the hospital. The others were all
! right in few minutes.
Miss Freer was 20 years old, q member Of
4 ST. Andrews Protestant Episcopal Church
DR.. Ven De Waters, and OF the Girls
Friendly Society Of the church. Miss Freer
was employed in downtown wholesale
house. She was one OF the five children OF
William Freer, a mason.
cApILLAc's FLAoPoLE HIT.
Lightning struck the Flagstaff Of the
Hotel Cadillac, Broadway and Forty-third
street. at 2:30 O'Clock and shattered it.
: The telephone switchboard was burned
out and Miss Edith Smith. the operator
felt the shock slightly. Two women
tainted Among those who ran to the
Office after the lightning struck was Miss
Catherine Hayes. On her return to her
from fright.
lightning also struck the top, Of the
Z ct Ffty-ninth street and Avenue A. The
! chimney is 925 feet high Bricks from
the top layers were thrown to the roofs
/ Of tenements adjacent. and a assure 1
inches wide and is feet deep was rent on
the chimney Supt Upton said the chimney
cost $4,000 and was damaged $500.
OTHER DoINGs OF THE LIGHTNING.
Z Lightning struck the iron awning at the
Manhattan terminal OF the Villa n1sbure
s Bridge, where hundreds Of persons were
& waiting for cars to take them to Brooklyn
4 A number Of persons were stunned anc
fell to the platform. Mrs. Frances Lowrit
Of ITO West 115th street was rendered I'm.
conscious. She was badly bruised on the
left side Of the body and suffered greatly
! from shock.
( Lightning struck the third rail on the
y subway elevated between Westchester anc
Intervale avenues ran along the structure
4 about fifteen feet and then continued down
ono Of the pillars to the street. At the foot
Of the pillar Michael Shrinpe, so years old
and August Ryer. IL, were knocked to the
street unconscious. The boy is badly
4 hurt.
Policeman Robert Sheridan Of the West
Forty-seventh street station was telephon.
ing at police box at Twelfth avenue ano
Fifty-eecond street when the storm was al
it's worst. He got shock which knocked
him six feet and landed on his back in q
puddle.
Coroner Berry OF The Bronx was driving
along the Pelham Bay road which runs
through the woods Of Pelham Bay. Park