Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-07-31
Series Of Severe Electrical Show
ers Passed Over This Section
Yesterday Many Are Killed
at Coney Island.
BUT LITTLE DAMAGE HERE.

/ en- who works in Fritz's barber-shop,
! in Railway avenue, Carteret, was at
the game. Cohen swears that cyclone
lifted an extension dining table out
Of a house it damaged and bore 1t,
twisting and turning, as if it was
no heavier than withered leaf.
The ball-players and the spectat-
ors scattered and ran in all direc-
tions, while planks and tree limbs
hurtled after them. While bricks
and timbers were falling from houses
the people were afraid to enter.
Thunder Shower Followed.
The cyclone now seemed to be
spent, and no further places were
visited. The thunder shower then
I descended and deluged the vicinity,
lashing Staten Island sound into high
waves and whitecaps.
During the half-hour of terror the
locality had been kept at fear
full pitch, everyone wondering whose
would be the next house to be de-
J vastated. The noise of falling deb
! NJ filled the air.
Al tSOt MUM l1ftOths
Visitors at Boynton Beach yester-
da yhad more excitement that they
bargained for. The whirling, funnel
shaped windcloud which struck Car
4 teret was plainly seen and some OF
the people became panic-stricken
thinking the cyclone would reach the
beach. Shower after shower passed,
lightning flashed and thunder roar
ed making life anything but pleas
ant.
Storm In Perth Amboy.
The severe shower and thunder
and lightning storm did comparative
ly little damage in this city.
Fishing and sailing parties which
swarmed the bay and sound sour
ried for shore and dozens of them
were soaked to the skin.
A sloop from Sewaren lay, near
the lighthouse, during the half-hour
or so that the storm was at its worst,
with sails furled. Many thought it
had been struck, but it weathered
tho storm safely.
A number of wires were down
about town, but there were no tie
ups or breasks of account.
NEW YORK. suly 81. - During a
thunderstorm of terrific intensity which
passed over New York yesterday five
persons were struck by lightning and
instantly killed. and eleven were serl-
ously injured at the Parkway baths at
Coney Island At the same time one
man was killed and three were pros
trated 1T Gravesend beach
Those killed were: George Dunwoo-
die, Jacob Frankel, Robert i. Wasch.
Charles Bennerle. Frank Bennerle ana
Henry Ransweiler, all of New York.
The intense heat attracted a great
multitude to the shore resorts, ana latc
in the afternoon. when the storm blew
UP from the westward, the. Parkway
beach was thronged with bathers and
spectators. When the rain descended
in torrents hundreds of men, women
and children sought shelter under the
big bath house. which is elevated above
the sand on piles. The lightning was
incessant, and terrific thunder claps
shook The bath house, to the terror of
the crowd huddled together beneath it.
few minutes before O'Clock bolt
struck the flagstaff and grounded in the
very thickest of the crowd. Nearly
ffty persons were prostrated, and the
rest. screaming with terror, rushed out
into the storm. Those who had remain
ed in the water were also panic strick"
en- ana fled in all directions, not daring
TO enter the bath house, which appear
ed to be on fire.
Ambulances were summoned Iroih
all the nearest hospitals, and on tneiI
arrival five persons were found ue',i
and nine unconscious under the patl
house. The bodies of all were scorcneu
by the electric fluid. Those injured
were removed to hospital, wnere II
was said that some probably woulu ale'
MANY nersons less seriously hurt were
tolxcn home by friends. slight iire
IN the bath house was quickly extih-
guished by the rain.
About the same time Henry hans-
weller was struck and killed whlle
ebeIterjng under tree at Gravesend
hav and his son, William, with John
Annie ana Daniel McCauley, We're rem
aered unconscious.
IS F;ehfning struck at various points
i, i,a ci1e. i store IN Flushing ave-
n,,e' nrool lfyn. was burned. and d ear
i,' six.,l 4 nlie, New Fos'ik M sff np