New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-06-19

! mounted the dome The crash was heard
by Patrolman Nathan Whitman. of the
| EIdridge street station, who rushed into
the building and yelled to the few wor-
| shippers there to leave as quickly as
possible. Nobody was Injured, but the
| Buildings Department was soon on the
scene with a wrecking crew. They took
| the ball and star to the ground because
| they were in danger of falling to the
street.
At the height of the storm lightning
struck the cornice of a building at No.
1241 Broadway, ripping off fifteen feet
of the metal structure and sendlhg IL
crashing to the street Guests IN the
New Grand Hotel. directly across the
street. were alarmed and ran to the VIM
dows, but were treasured by employees
Another prank played by the storm
occurred at 155th street and St Mich
olas Place. where steel pole TO which
was fastened a mail box. was hit by
bolt of lightning and shattered. the let
tiers in the box being scattered all oyer
the sidewalk.
Heavy Damage to Parks.
The storm did great damage to the
trees and shrubs in Central Park and
the parks In The Bronx. In every direc-
ton trees were uprooted and bushes nat
tened to the earth, and it will take many
weeks to repair the damage, according
to park attendants. In the AooioglcaI
Park, in The Bronx, the animals were
stampeded when the storm struck that
part of the city The keepers had the
utmost difficulty in restraining them
from smashing the fences about the in
closures, and the large crowd of visitors
to the park was forced to weather the
full force of the gale without shelter.
Manhattan's traffic facilities we're
badly crippled at different times during
the storm blockade which lasted Tor
an hour occurred in the Broadway branch
of the subway. at 18th street. An ex-
cavation is being made at that point, IN
preparation for a wider staircase, ana
when the rain started in to flood the
streets it rose above the curb and poured
into the excavation and down the tracks.
Within a few minutes the tracks were
under two feet of water and every train
was short -circuited and thrown into
darkness.
At this time superintendent y. L.
Merritt of the Interborough company
was in one of the northbound trains.
He climbed down to the tracks and took
charge of the situation. He ordered
that the power be turned off on the
northbound tracks and that all trains
going north should be switched off at
the 18th street station to the south
bound tracks.
Many narrow escapes from drowning
were reported in Long Island Sound
owing to the suddenness with which the
storm broke. Many people were rescued
by boatmen along The Bronx shore and
others were forced to speed for cover to
Whitestone and Fort Washington, on
the north shore of Long Island.
Drowned in Hackensack River.
Reports from towns in New Jersey in
Dictated that many people had been in
jured or drowned. In the Hackensack
River a canoe capsized in which were
Miss Mary McGlynn, of No. 40 West
SD street. Manhattan, and Frederick
Weber, of No. 60 Van Cortlandt ave-
nue., Ridgewood. Both were thrown into
the river and drowned.
In Somerville, n. J., and neighboring
towns. the section was visited by the
worst storm ever experienced. Streams
broke their entertainments and over
flowed washing out telegraph and tele
phone wires, and causing many of the
lighting plants to be put out of business.
The storm was accompanied by hail
stones as large as Jumps of sugar, and
many persons were severely cut by them.
The entire countryside about Somerville
and Bound Brook was half deluged with
slack water, and all traffic was Sus-
pended
In Sheepshead Bay the wind and rain
had a full sweep across the fiat lands,
and the damage was heavy. Even with
in the shelter of the Bay. the wind tossed
up such heavy seas that private yachts
at anchorage there were thrown up high
on the beach and the water flooded a
great section of the land. Several houses
We're struck by lightning and trees were
unrooted and thrown across trolley
tracks and roadways. The cars of the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company were
put out of commission for several
stretches, and the passengers were forced
to stay in their seats and get drenched
in the downpour.
Fear Four Were Lost.
At the Sheepshead Bay racetrack. just
before the start of the fourth race a red
bali Of lightning struck the scoreboard
on which the results of the races are an
nounced, and caused panic in the pad
dock.
In the Bay off Sea Gate, Coney Island.
four men were in a fishing smack which
the shore. The sea was so heavy that
the men could not control the boat They
were signalling for help when their boat
was seen by Arthur ". Lock. of Sea
Gate, and Henry Eagle, who tried to
launch a rowboat and go to their as
sistance The height of the breakers
made this impossible however. and when
the storm had abated Lock and Eagle
made second attempt.
This time they succeeded in reaching
the boat which had drifted more than a
mile away When they climbed on board
they could find no trace of the four men.
1t is believed that they were all drowned.
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