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

George Bozzio of 2s3 West Twenty seventh
street, left arm broken, Maggie Roose.
~ years old, Of TAO Fast i55th street, right
side and right knee injured; Agnes Carter,
colored Of POS West Sixtieth street, and her
two children. slightly hurt; Mr.. and Mrs..
Emil Kolb aid Mrs. Marie White OF 2W
West 10th street, shocked and bruised; Mrs.
james Nolan OF 2i3 West twenty ninth
street, shocked; conductor and motorman
slightly hurt.
TWO coNEY ISLAND CARS HIT.
Lightning hit Lorimer-Tompkins ave-
niue car at Church and Flatbtsh avenues,
Flatbush zigzagged through the car and
was gone with q bang like cannon shot.
Hall the passengers jumped from , the car car.
troller box was tipped of his feet and
thrown over the dashboard; A man be-
side him was stunned and for time
couldn't move or cry for help. ne had
The lightning shriveled the, paper and
scorched the contents. Half a dozen women
from the car tainted in drug store close
by.
Jacob schlagmann Of 1873 Myrtle. avenue,
Brooklyn, was severely burned on the face.t
Abraham Bieber, 3 years. old, same address.
sustained similar injuries: John Conroy
OF 16S Richardson street, Alice Early Of 20
Powers street and Lucy Snyder OF % Du-
pont street suffered from shock. S"hlag-
mann ana tnB DltttI tulh NcIO nVh w
Flatbush Hospital. The car, which was
going to Coney Island, was disabled and
had TO 60 to the repair shop.
Ten minutes later lightning bolt hit
car IA OF, the same line at Gravesend and
was filled with Williamsburg people bound
for Coney Island. The shock threw jean
nette Mclaughlin of 2h5 Oakland street
and Mrs. Mary Dineen OF l24 Bedford
avenue from pm. the car Miss McLa"s gsrs
taken home in coaches. Other passengers
were injured, but they declined medical
Lightning struck trolley. car in Long
Island City on Which the on,y pa1sengers
his wife and little son. The electricity
ran along the trucks of the car and burned
a large hole in Mrs. Feuchtwanger's dress,
but did not injure her or any OF the others
YOUNG CHURcHwoMAN KILLED IN BOAT
HOUSE.
Jeanette G. Freer OF 4os East la2d street
YES killed and seven others who were
shetering in Marshalls boathouse at the
West End Yacht Club landing, West 1880
e rect, we're burned and shocked by q. bolt
Il at struck the house. Miss Freer. Nlorti-
q. Gates Co Waiter Go.nbey Of 70 Charles
81 rect, H. Moulin OF 12O Kingston avenue,
brooklyn, and Thomas Newkirk of 2223
Eighth avenue were about going for a, san
in the sloop yacht Mavise. owned by We
Ridley. who was a friend of Miss Freer:
Mr. Ridley was just south of the boatho,ise
with his yacht, but the party didn t want
to 60 out in such weather and sigma led him
to wait, Just about that time the river was
dotted with all sorts of small craft which
were running for shore in a hurry. ~
Mrs. Lottie Ma rshall was making up sand
witches for the party at the counter and
Florence Cantrell, a ve-yeaf-old girl.
who lives at ola West 125th street and who !
was visiting the Marshalls, was he Ing her
Miss Freer was sitting at a table inside
with Mr.. Newkirk. Marshall and the Of hers
were on the veranda. Atabout 80 O'Clock
lightning ripped through the roof destroyed
q partition and ran down the wal burned
up two paintings and killed Mas Freer in.
her was knocked senssiess, and everybody
II hs '0a aesording vss annsS rha SS
slread al! over The, boathouse ~ a
q green r amd s Th,ts na MIr
p.'per part Of tie body. Florence Can.
trclls face was scorehed 40 keS nAek ard
lLe upper pa RI Of her body Vsefe burned. 80,
Marshall and NewkiEk, who yers lAs aEst
torecover: telephon eitp theJ. HoodiWri ~
saw as soon rs he got there that nothing
could be fR,ao for the :gifs. Ti.s, lightning
did not di dieufe her; "a We for large bHrh
on the breast DR.. Darling treated Florence
0Antrell ana Mrs. NlTSn3u, VINO SlustO 10
70 to the hospital; The others were all
right in few minutes. = ~; -,S.':
Miss Freer so years old; amember Of
st. Andrews Protestant Episcopal Church,
DR.. Van De Waters, and of the Girls
Friendly Society of the church. Miss Ereer
was employed in Il downtown wholesale
house. She was one of the five children of
William; Freer. mason. -,--,......-... 80. ~,
cApIIIxc's .1LAuHoiK mr.. -,
Lightning struck the flagstaff Of the
Hotel Cadillac. Broadway and Forty-third
street. at 2:3O O'Clock. and shattered 1t.
out and Miss Edith Smith, the operator.
got severe shock Guests in the lobby
felt the shock slightly. Two women
tainted. Among those who ran to the
Office after the lightning struck was Miss
r Ioom she found her poodle, Jappe dead s
from fright.
Lightning also struck the top OF the
chimney Of the New York Steam Company
at Ffty-ninth street and Avenue A. The
the top layers were thrown to the roofs
OF tenements adjacent, and assure
inches wide and Is feet deep was rent on
the chimney. Supt. Upton said the chimney
cost $24 900 and was damaged $500.
OTHER Do1Nds OF THE LIGHTNING.
Lightning struck the iron awning at the
Manhattan terminal Of the Villa msburg
Bridge, where hundreds of persons were
waiting for cars to take them to Brooklyn;
A number of persons we're stunned and
fell to the platform. Mrs. Frances Lowrie
of 1l9 West l15th 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
subway elevated between Westminster and
1ntervale avenues, ran along the structure
about fifteen feet and then continued down
one Of the pillars to the street AT the foot
Of the pillar Michael Shrinpe. 80 years old,
and August Ryer, IL, were knocked to the
street unconscious. The boy is badly
hurt.
Policeman Robert Sheridan Of the West
Forty-seventh street station was telephon-
ing at police box at Twelfth avenue and
Fifty-second street when the storm was at
its worst He got shock which knocked
him six feet and landed on his back in
puddle.
Coroner Berry of The Bronx was driving
along the Pelham Bay road. which runs
through the woods of Pelham Bay Park.
In light road wagon, when lightning
struck big elm tree within few feet Of
him. The tree was split in two and the
fash blinded the Coroner and scared his
horse into running away. Mr. Berry says
that he was temporarily blinded for fully
five minutes by the flash and that all that
time his horse ran wild, He finally re-
covered and ran the animal into tree,