The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-06-11

families in all. were sure that the build
ing had been struck by lightning Every
body crowded into the halls in panic
and made for the street A few turned
toward the fire escapes. but were fright
ened back by the lightning. The first
TO reach the street turned in fire alarm
and there was q general rush to get out
a few valuables while the firemen were
on the way. But there was no fire. and
fremen and police finally persuaded the
tenants. drcnched by the rain, to go back
into the building The cellar was full of
water.
In the Tenderloin the storm caught
theatregoers at n disadvantage. Such
Of them as wanted to go home promptly
had to succumb to the taxicab chaufeurs.
who demanded two or three times the
re sular charges to ferry patrons home.
Even at the advance rates taxicabs weren't
easily obtained
The audience on the Victoria roof
was walking around in the intermlssion
when the storm burst Everybody made
for the protected part of the garden.
Part Of il il rooted over, but so many per-
sons crowded in that many had to stand
in the aisles The iiremen stationed there
would not allow this infraction OF the
department regulations and the audi
ence had to filter down stairs. An upright
timber on the roof ives caught by the wind
and toppled over II was far enough away
from the audience 30 that most didn't
know of IL.
Lieut. Morris in the Teuderlon police
station, going to the department tel'-
70. coll IA shock and
was knocked down. He came to without
help from outside
Neither the Staten Island ferry line nor
the Thirty ninth street line to Brook
lyd, both of which are municipal ferries
was affected by the storm. The light
ming aided rather than hinderet nayIga-
ton. as it illuminated the waters Of he hay
as they are seldom lighted up. None OF
the electrical mechanism on any of the
boats was affected The passengers.
however, did not take the storm as calmly
as the crews. The usual saturday night
throng was pouring into the Terry houses
about the time the st orm broke. The
boats went out on schedule time well
filled into a tumult of sharp flashes ana
terrific detonations that echoed over the
water. The deck hands went through
the boats seeing that everything was tight
against the rain and assuring the more
the j. NJ. Guffey oil tanks AT Bayonne.
setting il afire The flames sprang up
ward in huge column that lighted up
the bay like a giant torch and the sight
Of this did not tend To lessen the ner-
vousness Of the spectators on the ferry
boats.
The tide at the Battery swelled three
or four feet above normal when the storm
got under way and Battery boatmen
watched the cross currents glad that they
didn't have to take their chances with II
On shore the wind picked up u truck
standing at the confines Of Battery PGrk
and slung ii sidewise up on the sidewalk
The electric sign on the Brill Bros
building at 1915 Broadway. TO the north
Of Long Acre Square. crashed down Oh The
il knocking out skylight in Maurice
Days billiard room. The rain poured
poo @ ,aSIss bs fhe .isn of itssi w"a % @racked I
While Barry Hill and Young Reilly,
two bantamweight fighters, were boxing
night the storm reached that section
while the third round Of their ten round
bout was going on. All the electric lights
in the building went out They were out
for ten minutes.
Buildings on the upper West Side were
so shaken by the storm that people ran
around crying "EarthquPke'" f8nic
started in the Home for the Blind, at loith
street and Amsterdam avenue and the
officials he'd difficulty in duieting the in
mates. The lightning turned in a fire
alarm from the home, though there was no
fire, Dwellers IN nearby apartments
were greatly excited by the tremor felt
through the buildings
Electric ligh, wires went down in the
section of The Bronx from Fordhim road
up jerome avenue a. Tar as knCSbrldge
and all the lights. street and otherwise
went out The Catholic orphan asylum
on Sedgwick avenue and the Webb Acad-
emy in East l9Ith street were among the
buildings which found themselves in
darkness. Trolley servic" also was
slowed up or stopped altogether for a
while in this section. troubled both by
falling w,rr- and 10y sand washed onto
the tracks particularly on the Aqueduct
line.
The police we're kent busy reporting
plate glass windows blown out bv the
wind. Lower Broadway was a heavy
sufferer in this RESPECT. OF the trees
which suffered on" IA front of ln3 Waverly
place was struck hv l4Ghtring and then
blown down. Another Wa blown down
AT the corner of Eighty eighth street anC
Broadway aud one IN Washington Suuar.
Park opposite 81 Washington Square
North tore up TIA" sidewalk "a IL
went over Lightning struck chin
ney at 49, Nest 1wenty-plghth street and
knocked il down through the root
George Smith, in charge Of humber
barge tied up III the East River AZ the foot
Of Third street, fell overheard while trying
20 make his moorings safe and was
drowned.
Lightning struck the frame building
adjoining Paradise Park AT Fort GeorR.
and once used as +. staurunt. but tn.
building did not take fire
In Jersey City roofs were t3krn of
ehimneys blown down and = man wa
killed by a fallen live wire This las
occurrence was al Clinton avenue anc
Sackett street whore the mans bod,
was found in pool of water The thre,
story brick houses q, PA and 278 Thirteenth
street Jersey City were unroofed and tn
iron roofing was blown across the street
The chimney of the FaEan Iron Work.
In Fourteenth street wa tOppled over
For fifteen minutes the entire town was II
darkness because of break in the powe
plant OF the Public Service Corporation
y A store at $40 Communiraw avenue wa
kstruck by lightning and caught fire
'PlAte glass windows in the business dis
tricts were smashed and the streets wer
filled with fallen branches of trees II
Hamilton Park several trees were blowl
down
In Newark electric wires We're iniurc,
and the running of trolley cars was inter
fered with The Fire Department wa
kept on the Jump answering alarms
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