The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-01
DEAD IN TEMPEST
New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut Swept.
Half a Dozen Killed and Several In
iured at ConeY Island. Disasters
at Carteret, Bridgeport, Point
Pleasant.

New Y DIX, July OI'-l Il6 GctSLCl IL
coast of the United States was swept
YESTERDAY by terrific thunder storms
and cyclonic winds which left q trail
Of dead and injured in the stricken
areas.
Six persons were killed and fifteen
seriously injured yesterday by light
ming at Coney Island. The lightning
struck at almost precisely the same
instant at three different places, the
three flashes all occurring at Ale p.
m.
One killed five persons and seri-
ously shocked nine others gathered
around the foot of a tiag-pole, under
the board walk at the Parkway Baths,
Brishton Beach. Thirty others were
shocked.
Another killed one person and seri-
ouslv injured three and shocked ten
more under a cedar tree at Camp
City" a tent colony on Gravesend
Beach
The third flash struck a trolley car
at Gravesend avenue and Eighty
sixth street and hurled three women
out into a ditch.
Almost every one of those seriously
injured at Parkway Baths was rob-
bed of memory and in most cases of
power of speech
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ing the storm turned houses over,
wrecked others, uprooted trees and
carried chickens and small animals
away.
At Bridgeport, Conn, two persons
were Killed and many were injured
Houses were wrecked and many freak
accidents happened.
In New York city the storm played
havoc. The patients in Bellevue Hos
pital We're thrown into a panic when
lightning was carried into the institu-
ton by the telephone wires. A Sixth
avenue elevated train was set afire by
the lightning.
AT Point Pleasant, N. j., the storm
caught a banker and his daughter
while boating and drowned them.
Those killed at the Parkway bath
house We're:
George Dunwoodie, Buffalo.
Jacob RanlIel. Manhattan.
Robert +. Wasch, Bronx.
Charles Bennerle, Brooklyn
Frank Bennerle, Brooklyn.
Henry RansWeller, Brooklyn
The injured-David Willis, James j.
Dunno Tina Christensen, Harry
Krohn, Clara Thiel. Mary l.. Curley,
Isaac Raffe and wife; Amelia Schone,
VIM. Ransweller, John Apple, Daniel
McCauley, all of Brooklyn.
The Parkway beach was thronged
with bathers and spectators The
rain descended in torrents and hum
dreds of men, women and children
sought shelter under the big bath
house, which is elevated above the
sand on piles. The lightning was m
cessant and terrific thunder claps
shook the bath house to the terror of
the crowd huddled together beneath
it, few minutes before five o'clock
a bolt struck the Flagstaff and ground
ed in the very thickeSt of the crowd.
Nearly fifty persons We're Frustrated
and the rest. screaming with terror,
rushed out into the storm. Those
who had remained in the water were
also panic stricken and fled in all di-
rections, not daring to enter the bath
house, which appeared to be on nre.
Ambulances were summoned from,
all the nearest hospitals and on their
arrival five persons were found dead
and nine unconscious under the bath
house. The bodies Of all We're scorch-
ed. The nine injured were removed
to a hospital. where it was said that
some probably would die.
Henry Ransweller was struck and
killed while sheltering under tree at
Gravesend beach and his son. William
with John Apple and Daniel Nc
Cauley were rendered unconscious.
Lightning struck at various points in
the city. A store in Flushing Ave-
nue., Brooklyn, was burned and a car
in Sixth avenue. Manhattan, was set
on fire, but the occupants escaped un.
hurt. The electric light and the tele-
phone wires in Bellevue hospital were
struck several times, extingUishing all
the lights and causing much alarm
among the patients.