New-York tribune., 1906-07-11
STORM BRINGS HAIL.
DAM4GE AROUND CITY.
High Wind and HeaOg Lightning
Cause Loss.

One OF the most violent thunderstorms OF the
season came up suddenly over the city and suburbs
yesterday afternoon at o'clock. and for fully forty
minutes lightning shot out of the clouds at un-
usually close intervals The storm came up from
the southwest It moved suggishly along the
Lower Bay. darkening the harbor so that the lights
on the municipal ferries shone as brightly as if it
night
After hurting out loud peals of thunder and
wicked flashes Of lightning over Brooklyn and the
lower part of Manhattan. the storm gathered fresh
impetus and moved northward. It broke with a
heavy fall OF hail The revenue cutter Manhattan.
which cruising about the North River when
the storm broke, was practically cut of from
shore. and Captain Bradley could hardly make his
way in the binding shower Of hail.
While the storm lasted nearly all craft in the
harbor either stopped or reduced speed
Lighting struck I'm many places in and around
New York. and the accompanying gale. which blew
at the rate of AZ miles an hour caused much dam
age to property.
The fagpole which surmounted the East 61th
street police station struck by lightning which
down through the building into the various
rooms and corridors, creating considerable excite
ment but causing no damage. In Park avenue
by, trees and shrubs uprooted by the
wind, and in some cases were carried some dis
tance
At South NorwaIk Conn. lightning struck a
camp, paralyzing Mrs. Thomas Casey, making her
sons throat rigid. and the leg of another lad
Others in the camp were seriously hurt.
The storm fell heavily at MOntclair, n. j., Cedar
Grove and other places in Essex County. The fali
of hail in these places exceedingly heavy.
1t is thought that it will spoil the late cherry crop
Men and women in the streets of Newark became
panicstricken, and staggered into the nearest shell
ters. Throughout the city many trees were up
rooted and blown down. Wires were broken and
crossed and flower beds hattened.
The three story frame building at Fourth stree',
near Bloomfield avenue was demolished by the
gale. The at work on the building were
hardly out when the structure which was two
thirds completed, collapsed. A frame house IN
Washington avenue, used as laundry, collapsed
Charles Lee, the proprietor who was buried in the
ruins was rescued by men from the trolley barns
near by and sent to the City Hospital Herman
Bixer, of No 316 Fifteenth avenue. while trying
to avoid the storm in front of trolley car. and
was probably fatally injured. His baby; whom he
carried in his arms, also seriously hurt.
The lightning struck the carriage factory of Iunis
& Co. in South street, Morristown, N. J., setting
fire to wasps nest in the caves Of the building
The wind and hail wrought much damage TO nearby
farms. About the home of Robert D. Foote, in
James street the hail fell depth Of ten inches
When the storm broke at New Rochelle more
than dozen boating parties We're off the Larch-
mont Yacht Clubs anchorage, and several yachts
were swamped. Harry Kane, the steward of the
New Rochelle Yacht Clubs shore station used @ the
clubs big launch and towed six boats to the hoat
He found three other bOatOads so exhausted that
he had to drag the people bodily into the launch
and let their boats go