New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-02

OF order. Under the command OF Po-
lice Captain Edward J. Toole, the po-
licemen managed to prevent accidents
or serious disorder at the entrances TO
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit surface
cars.
The greatest tie-up of surface cars in
years occurred in Brooklyn. For the
first time since electricity has been
used as motive power on the Long
Island Railroad. the section between
Manhattan Crossing, at East New York
and Flatbush avenue was put out OF
business. Steam locomotives had to be
called into use. and trains were run as
often as the railroad officials could keep
the influx of water sufficiently low TO
permit Of the engines passing through
the submerged portions.
The total damage in Brooklyn was
estimated at 100000. a million dollars
would not plaster the feelings OF those
who were out in the rain.
Many Incoming Trains Late.
Many Of the trains coming into the
Grand Central Terminal on the New
York Central were from fifteen min
utes to half hour late. At o'clock
the Lake Shore Limited, due at 90
o'clock, was bulletined as two and
half hours late.
Excavations for the new subway sys-
TEN suffered both in Manhattan and
Brooklyn. At 4:3O o'clock the men at
work in Section 10 OF the Lexington
avenue subway were forced 10 quit
and man the pumps. A double crew
was kept busy all night forcing the
water from the excavation.
In Brooklyn the Snoring Of the ex-
cavation for the Fourth avenue SUD
way at 44th street gave way before the
torrent. It carried two Italian labor
ers with IT, half burying them under
tons Of earth. Their fellow workmen
rushed 10 the police station at ADD
street and Fourth avenue. The re-
serves turned out, and, with the help
OF flremen summoned from the quar-
tiers OF Truck "a, at Fifth avenue and
5lst street. dug the men out.
Lightning struck the four story
building at 10Th street and Park ave-
nue. Manhattan, occupied by the Pro-
gressive Cleaning and Dyeing Com
pany. and set it afire. A number Of
employees in the building at the time
escaped.
Lightning also struck the three
story frame house OF Samuel Garvey,
at No. 631l Seventeenth avenue, Bath
Beach, and destroyed it. II demol-
ished a dog house behind the Shell
bourne Hotel, Brighton Beach. and
killed the dog.
Bolt Knocks Man from Ship.
Lightning hit the after section OF the
Austrian liner Oceania yesterday as the
vessel was about to depart for Trieste
ard hurled a sailor into the water The
man was Rudolf Serovitch. He was
helping to cast of the stern lines as the
Oceania was moving out OF her berth
at the Bush docks, Brooklyn. The proxr
unity OF the bolt stunned him, and he
fell into the water.
Darkness that was almost nocturnal
brought heavy load on the New
York Edison Company. In fact. from
| until ) o'clock the big generating
plants supplied more current than IN
any previous four hours on record.
That meant that the Edison compe ny
provided 10000 kilowats. or 10000
more than usual, and burned 800 extra
tons of coal.
Old residents say the storm was the
worst on Staten Island in twenty years.
Hundreds of cellars from Mariners
Harbor to Fort Wadsworth were flood
ed. and during the height Of the storm
the streets in many sections OF the ISL
and were impossible. Trolley cars all
over the borough were tied UP, and the
steam road on the North Shore was
blocked by landslides. and there were
very few trains which were able 10 get
through FOR about four hours during the
afternoon
Lightning hit the cottage OF Mrs.
Martha Kohl, on Danube avenue. Con-
cord Mrs. Kohl, with her sister, Mrs.
Thomas Stewart, were in the kitchen
of the house at the time. Mrs. Kohl
was stunned by the bolt and received
scalp wound.
Policeman Killed at Call Box.
Patroman Hugh Clark, Of the Ocean
avenue station In Jersey City, was in
stantly killed at $40 o'clock yesterday
afternoon by an electric shock from the
police call box at the Boulevard and
McAdoo avenue. IL was his regular
time for calling up the station from
that box. There was much wind and
the rain vas falling In torrents.
Evidently his first touch of the box
was fatal Persons living in the
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