The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-24
WORST STORM IN
FIFTY YEARS ENDS
LIVES IN JERSEY
Leaps Western Boundary and
Kills Three Pennsylvania
Militiamen.
GOVERNOR STUART HAS
VERY NARROW ESCAPE
Wind and Showers Leave Camp
at gettysburg a Total
Wreck.

New Jersey was in the grip of the
Storm King yesterday. From Cape
May to Jersey City, from the atlantic
to the western boundary line, the ar
tillery of the elements played havoc
with men, animals, buildings, trees and
crops. Near Asbury Park two men
We're killed \ Bound Brook farmer
lost his life. A boy was killed in Jer-
sey City. The visitation was the most
damaging in fifty years.
Jumping across the western boundary
to Pennsylvania. the storm vented its
fury upon the camp OF the National
Guard in Gettysburg, killing three
militiamen and seriously injuring many
others. Every tent was knocked down.
Governor stuart Has Narrow Escape.
In Newark M the suburbs many
trees were struck by lightning, al
though the damage to buildings was
slight. Charles H.. Long, of 451 Grove
street, was made unconscious by light
ming while leaning against an iron post
at South Orange avenue near Twenty
first street.
GETTYSBURG, July 24.-Privates
Morrison, of the Sixteenth Regiment
y. G.. p, and Barber and Carver, of the
Tenth Regiment. were killed last night
by a bolt of lightning, which struck the
1esimental guard tent. Fifty soldiers
were TUNED.
The body of Carver was bisected by
the bolt. The storm turned the camp
streets INTO miniature rivers. Every
tent was blown down, Governor Stuart
having a narrow escape from the fall
ing tent-pole at his headquarters.
BOUND BROOK, July 24.-Albert
Wilson, a farmer, was killed by light
ming while pitching hay on his farm.
JERSEY CITY, July A.-Samuel
Gerson, IA years old, was killed by
lightning while crossing a vacant lot
near his home.
Two Killed Near Asbury Park.
RAILWAY, July 24.-Lightning and
rain caused thousands of dollars of
damage in this city yesterday. The
spire of st. Marks Church was struck.
The Trinity M. e. Church steeple was
shattered. Three residences were
struck. A 9-year-old boy narrowly
escaped drowning when a water main
burst at the height of the storm.
ASBURY PARK, July 24.-Two lives
were lost near this town, twelve houses
were struck by lightning, telegraph
wires are down and cellars are flooded
as the result of yesterdays storm.
PRINCETON, July 24.-The 1agpole
on University Library was splintered
by lightning yesterday Several large
trees were uprooted.
CLAYTON, July 24-Three daughters
of Israel Scott were stunned by light
ming yesterday.
SALEM, July 24.-Roads in PENIS
Neck and Warrington townships were
made impossible by falling trees, up
rooted by the storm Of yesterday Hail
fell, injuring corn. Several farmhouses
were struck and the icehouse of John
Winters was wrecked.
BARNEGAT, July 24.-William Mills,
% years old, was struck by lightning
and instantly killed while his wife and
two children looked on during the storm
of yesterday. He fell from a boat. Mrs.
Mills tried to drag the body back into
the BOAT but failed.
SOMERVILLE, July 24.-Lightning
Gid $4,000 damage to the stock and hay
barn of William Bradley's Ardmar
stock farm.
NEW BRUNSWICK, July 24-At
Iselin. eight miles away, the large
barn attached to Wiedenhaupt's Hotel
was ignited by a bolt of lightning and |
burned to the ground. Two horses per-
ished. Passengers on Pennsylvania
Railroad trains saw bolt after bolt
splinter telegraph poles along the
tracks near the city.