The sun., 1909-06-29
COOLER, SAYS THE PROPHET
THE RAIN CAME on SCHEDULE
YESTERDAY, LOTS OF 1T.

stopped Long Island Railroad Trains and
Queens Borough Trolley Lines, Stalled
Forty Automobiles in jackson Avenue
and Also Dropped the Mercury.
1t was not so warm as it seemed to be
yesterday The air was reeking with
moisture, and the perspiring multitude
that could not get out Of town because 1t
hadn't the price or the leisure or maybe
thought the only sensible way after all
was just to linger and patronize the
nearest place equipped with electrioa
fans and things. had the impression that
heat records had been broken. Folks
just in from the neighborhood Of Colorado
Springs said the temperature. which was
not bit higher than the Colorado Springs
variety, was simply suffooating. That
wasbecause the Rocky Mountain moisture,
more than 5000 feet above the sea level, is
hardly appreciable.
The best the temperature did to the
hermometer--the up in the air official
one-was s5.4 at 2:3O p. M. But the humid
ity fiuctuated between SO per cent. at 8
A. NJ. and 81 per cent. at s P. NJ. and did
stunts higher than that. even to the point
Of precipitation, when the officials ere not
looking. The Washington prophets Struck
1t right when they said there would be
thunder show ers In the afternoon. Most
of them went to the upper half Of NIanhat-
tan borough, the easterly sectio n of the
Borough Of Brooklyn, The Bronx and
Queens. The wind in the immediate
neighborhood of the weather Office in
eh,
to northeast about AIS p NJ. and the
mercury dropped about 10 degrees before
the last of the showers as over.
Seventeen prostratons attributed to
the heat we're reported by the New York
police yesterday.
Fully fifty thousand homegoing men,
women and girls employed in Manhattan
and Brooklyn were blockaded in Long
Island City last evening through the
washouts on the trolley lines and the
Long Island Railroad occasioned by the
torrent of rain that for On hour deluged
the Borough Of Queens.
AT the height Of the storm traffic
on the New York and Queens County
Electric Railway. which operates its cars
throughout that borough, came to
standstill through the flooding of the
big power house in Purvis street, just of
jackson avenue. while big washouts at
Woodside junction and at Penny Bridge
put every division Of the Long Island
Railroad out OF commission, stopping
traffic on both the westbound and east
bound tracks.
Hundreds of open trolley cars were
stalled all the way from Jamaica to
Flushing into Long Island City. Every
branch Of the New York and Queens
County Railway came to a stop when the
engineers in the big power house on
Purvis street found the water pouring
in like deluge. They closed down the
just in time to prevent
disaster which would have been occa-
rating machinery. For hours following
the clearing Of the storm the streets OF
Long Island City were crowded with
homegoers walking to their destinations.
While an unbroken stream OF people
jammed the streets of Long Island City
a sweltering mass OF humanity jammed
the inside and outside Of the big station
Of the Long Island Railroad at Hunters
Point. They were all clamoring for
to their homes. which
Tor fully an hour and half the railroad
we're unable to supply. At Penny Bridge
! canal was cut directly under the tracks,
n addition to several landslides which
cONeIeu tHe lIdChb Win edTtH. ne
-oadbed for a considerable distance was
,arIied from beneath the tracks at Wood
side Junction, and while traffic came to
/ stop at about 40 o'clock it was O. clock
before the breaches had been sufficiently
repaired to get traffic again under way.
To add to the confusion that seemed to |
ill the Hunters Point section. the power |
which operates the big roller lift bridge |
icross the Newtown Creek between |
ireenpoint and Long Island City was |
,hut off. leaving the bridge open, and a |
lot OF vehicles. automobiles and foot |
passengers filled the bridge viaduct |
,lear into Vernon avenue.
More than forty automobiles were |
stuck at one time in a depression along |
Jackson avenue. Corona. at the height |
If the storm.
Gangs of workmen were set 10 work |
% pump out the flooded powerhouse in |
purvis street and it was late last night |
before the road was again put in opera
ion.
William Evans. ss years old, OF 4ol
State street. Brooklyn, property man at |
lala Park. North Beach. was struck by |
lightning He was revived by DR.. p. j.
Cooney OF st. Johns Hospital and was |
ater sent to his home. Marie Ohanka.
2 years old. employed as a maid at Belve-
iere Park North Beach. became 30
frightened during the storm that she ran !
o her room and attempted suicide by
,anRinR, She was caught and held in