Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-11
Line men TO-DAY
ARE REPAIRING
LIGHTNING HAVOC
Sudden Electrical Storm Visits
Newark Suburbs-BoIt Sets
House Afire.
BI. .OOMFIELD WOMAN
STUNNED BY SHOCK
Four Cows Killed, Lighting Wires
Down and Twenty-Acre Fields
Wire Fence Stripped.

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Anemen are. busy today and farmers
are patching up their barns following q
severe electrical storm, which broke
with suddenness In the suburbs and
outskirts of Newark yesterday after
noon following day of intense heat, in
which there were two deaths and many.
prostratfons. The cool wave which
came today afforded some relief.
A bolt of lightning struck the horne
Of William Harris. In Bloomfield ave.
nue., North Caldwell. Mrs Harris, who
was alone In the house. was overcome
by shock. and was carried out by John
Barton, a neighbour who turned In fire
alarm. The Verona and Caldwell fire
departments fought the blaze and they
were aided by fifteen prisoners and
guards from the Essex county peniten-
tiary. The fire was confined to the roof
and the damage will not exceed $500.
Lightning struck the wires of the fire
alarm system at New street. near John
street, in Belleville. and the electric
light wires in Belmont avenue. Silver
Lake. 1t also hit the home of John
Bond. in Caldwell The $4,000 home Of
John Crawford Burns. In Roseland ave-
nue.. In Essex Fells. was also hit. Four
cows belonging to Amos Judson were
killed when lightning struck tree un-
der which they had taken shelter. A
bolt struck a wire fence on the John
Wilson Van Dusen farm. in Pine Brook.
splitting every post and stripping of
the wire around a twenty-acre field.
Lightning caused fire In the home
Of Poormaster John German, 123 South
Fullerton avenue Montclair, which did
$1,000 damage and estroyed the poor
house records A bolt struck the chim-
ney Of the home of Abram p. Haring.
e6 Park street. In Bloomfield and Glen
Ridge trees were blown down and the
streets flooded. The lightning caused q
slight blaze in the home OF James
Crawford, in Harrison street, Nutley.
lightning struck the homes of Freder-
! ick Burkhardt. Is Hawthorn street. and
lMrs. Mary Seymour, i3 Hawthorne
street, Orange
one death due directly TO the heat was
| that OF William Stfube, 81 years old,
| Of s0s South Nineteenth street. Short
| iy after noon Saturday a. call was sent
| to the city Hospital saying that Mr..
Strube was seriously Ill. He was taken
to the City, Hospital where he died
less than an hour later. Physicians
at the hospital said that death was
the direct result of heat prostration.
| While on the way to Coney Island,
| where her parents were taking her by
steamboat for breath of fresh air,
| Cora L. Morris, the 7-inonths-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Morris,
died Saturday night. overcome by the
oppressive heat W
The physician who had been attend
| ing the little girl for some time ad-
vfsed her parents Saturday night to
| take her down to Coney Island by boat
| In the hope that the fresh air would
save her life.
The siege of heat had already done its
| work. however, and the little girl failed
| to survive the trip.
Three victims of prostration taken
to the City Hospital yesterday were
| Lille Beckett, 15 years old. of 40 Cam
den street, who was overcome at Cabi-
net street and Wallace place and
Katherine Guerin, of 81 Union street.
and David Bailey. 81 years old. of 144
Mulberry street. f
Milkmen reported that 1000 cans Of
milk were soured by the storm.
Hoping that trip to the seashore
| would benefit their sick infant daugh-
tier, May Isabel the parents of the
child, Alexander and Diana Smith, of
| 123 johnson avenue, Kearny. took the
little one to Coney Island yesterday.
/ The heat, however. was too much for
| the baby, and when the parents re-
turned with the child last night they
stopped at the home of its grand
parents, 1S Davis street, Harrison. and
there summoned medical aid. The
baby, however, died shortly before mid
night of convulsions.
| Ernest PIatus, SO years old, of Frank
| lin avenue, became affected with the
heat ON Saturday night and wandered
| from the home of his son-in-law, H.
| N. Rodman, on Franklin avenue. An
| all night search through the surround
Ling fields with lanterns led by Rod
man followed. All nearby police de-
partments were notified, and late last
night he was located at house on Fiji
tieth street. New York, where he used
to live. He did not remember any
thing about his being lost and did not
seem to be suffering from his trip.
Those Frustrated by Heat Today.
Other prostrations were:
! Lillian Bechtert. is years old. of 40
Camden street, overcome at Cabinet
| and Wallace streets last night.
Katherine Germ. so years old, of 81
Union street. attended by DIR. Ions
and sent to the City Hospital where
she Is in a critical condition.
David Daley. 81 years old, of 14s
Mulberry street
Frederick Woodhause, . years old, of
zS Washington avenue.
Mary Elier, found at TIC Broad street.