Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-12

Thousands of persons in Newark and
the vicinity dragged themselves wear
lily to work today, robbed Of sleep py
the binding lightning and heavy thun-
der of three almost unprecedented
storms in the last forty-eight hours
With the month not half gone, the
precipitation records for June have
been smashed. Professor Wiener, The
High School weather expert terms il
record short fall" the total pre-
cipitation for the three storms being
3 s8-1o0 inches. The total for the
month is -1-10O inches.
The damage to property in shis vicin-
ity amounts to many thousands of dol
lars. In every part of the city AMI
suburbs trees were uprooted. telephons
and lighting wires blown down, roofs
snatched off and signs and awnings
wrecked. Only one person is known
to have been stunned by lightning.
While there were no fatalities in this
city New York Jared more unfortu-
nately, FIVE persons meeting their death.
The damage to property in New York
Is estimated at $1,000, 900.
Western Storm HITS Local Storm.
According to Professor Wiener the
trouble was started by Western storm
putting into" a local storm. A re-
markable feature was that while the
wind was bowling along at the rate of
sixty miles an hour a multitude of
whirling eddies-little storms In them
selves-spun flercely through the city.
Professor Wiener says that it was these
eddies coming in contact with each
other that caused the heavy damage
The storms were the worst in the
history of the Public Service Corpora
tion and the New York Telephone
Company, the former suffering 30,000
damage and the latter at least $4,000
The incapacitating of $1,000 kilowatt
turbine generator at the Marion power
house of the Public Service was the
most serious single accident TO the COM
pany. The electrical storm of SatuT-
day night jumped the arresters and
burned out the big generator, causing
railway and light service connected
with the power-house to be put out of
commission temporarily.
The generator is new and equipped
with every device known to the mod
ern electrical world that will protect
machinery against electric storms. The
severity of the storm which conquered
the protecting implements may be
judged from this incident.
Trolley Lines Handicapped.
notwithstanding the enormous
amount of work which has and will be
done on Public Service lines, an Of
fetal of the company today declared
the railway service will be handicapped
until Wednesday night at the earliest
because of the loss of the generator.
In the meantime the company has
made arrangements with the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company to use what
excess power they can spare from their
station at Sunnyside Long Island.
Public Service has hooked on to the
Hudson county end of the Pennsylva-
MAS power, but even this is inadequate
to supply what is lost a Marion
Another $4,000 generator was sent
from the Marion power-house to
Schenectady, y. Y. for repairs about
a month ago and, with this absent, the
company is unable to cope with the loss
OF the new mdcnlne- lnls nloiIinS
word was received here that the
field" of the generator at -eneetady
had been repaired and was on its way
here, accompanied by a tracer Orders
were sem out by the Public Service
to send a tracer frol.. here to locate
the "fcld." and when that Is done a
special locomotive will be engaged to
hustle the generator to Marion.
Every line in Essex, Hudson. Bergen.
Passaic and central divisions of the
company were put out of commission
at some time during the storms.
Tree Falls Across Car Line.
A falling tree at the Irvington sub
station put the Broad street cars out
for twenty-five minutes Saturday
night. Two lines in Jersey City We're
stalled when large trees fell directly
on the tracks. Hundreds OF falling
.