Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-09-20
GREAT CROP LOSS
BY HAIL STORM
Southeastern New York and
Southern New England Suffer
CONNECTICUT TOBACCO HURT
Domestic Animals In Bronx Park
Sauehtered-Century-OId Long
Island Church Destroyed
Fifty Trees Go.

New York-A severe storm, accom-
panied by lightning and hail, swept
over New York City, Long Island,
Westchester county, Connecticut and
as far as Newport. Dozens of places
were struck by lightning.
In some sections of Connecticut the
tobacco crop was ruined by the down
pour. Christ's Episcopal Church at
Manhasset, the oldest house of wor-
ship on Long Island, built in 1900, was
struck by lightning and burned to the
ground In the Hudson river bolt
shattered motor boat and three men
were forced to swim for their lives.
These were Emil Palson, of Yer
planck: Frank Beebe and Hugh Bar
rett, of Yonkers.
In Yonkers a big banner with the
pictures of Taft and Sherman in front
of the Republican headquarters was
struck and burned.
Because of the storm Flushing was
almost in complete darkness. An cleo
ford streets was struck and the whole
system was crippled until the damage
was repaired.
A bolt hit. the house occupied by
Walter Losee in Dobbs Ferry and split
the bath tub in two. The house took
fire.
A bolt tore hole through the roof
of house in Peekskill occupied by
Charles Miller. Corn and tobacco were
destroyed in large quantities in farm
ing sections of Westchester.
Wind did considerable damage at
West Point and more than fifty trees
in the Military Academy camping
ground were blown down while the
wind ripped up several large elms
around the post.
Nyack and vicinity felt the hail also
but there the worst feature was the
wind. Large trees were uprooted in
great numbers, carrying with them
the heavy fag-walks.
The most terrific hail storm in the
memory of inhabitants eighty years
old hit the southern part of Hartford,
Canton, Simsbury and Satan's King
dom, Connecticut. Hail as large as
hens eggs fell, making the ground
white. Hundreds of panes of glass in
dwellings and other buildings were
broken. Tobacco not harvested was
riddled
In the tobacco growing districts
damage so far is estimated at nearly
100000. The principal damage done
was at Windsor Locks and Warehouse
Point. A score of barns and houses
were struck by lightning and burned
to the ground.
In South Manchester, Conn, fifteen
persons were shocked when a bolt of
lightning struck a dwelling house.
Electric car and telephone service
was generally crippled in Connecticut.
Newport was suddenly turned into
darkness. Thunder, lightning and a
fierce rainfall unnerved young and old,
lasting half an hour The wind blew
eighty miles an hour.
The battleships Ohio Idaho and H.
linois dropped additional anchors and
made ready to steam into the open sea
if the anchor chains parted.
A group of torpedo boat destroyers
in Narragansett Bay hauled in their
anchors and steamed out to sea to
prevent accidents.
Providence, r. l., experienced half
dozen small fires, started by the
bolts of lightning, which seemed to
find target with every try The
streets there were flooded and traffic
was at a standstill
In the Bronx Geological Park New
York City, the lightning wrecked the
raising ranch where the food for the
Gagged animals is grown, and there
killed some $4,000 worth of chickens,
rats and pigeons.