New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-28

causing fire that did damage amount
ing To $500, and the home OF John J.
kessel. at IL Dry Harbor Road, Glen
dale. Eight dwellings and factories in
Brooklyn were the marks for bolts Of
lightning.
The City Hospital AT Newark. In
which there were 100 patients. was hit
and the electric elevators were put out
OF order. The Bergen ST. public
school, Newark. was discharging rs
pupils when the storm broke. Light.
ming struck pole in front Of the
building and short circuited the wires
in the school. but no one was injured.
Lights Out in Westchester.
Last night most OF Westchester County.
including the Quaker Ridge and Wykagyl
sections OF New Rochelle was in dark
ness, the storm OF the afternoon having
uprooted big trees. which carried away
the electric wires as they fell. Telephone
communication en- Wcstchester vas af
fected for several hours. while the
beaches along the Sound were strewn with
motorboats. launches and other pleasure
craft which broke from their moorngs in
the gale.
On Long Island. in Nassau County par
ticularly, the highways suffered consider
ably from the heavy rainfall. Ruts and
washouts were everywhere. while many
fine trees We're blown 10 the ground.
Players in golf tournament at the Pip
ing Rock Country Club were drenched be-
fore they could gain shelter.
In this city the sky grew black about
o'clock. the clouds being banked in solid
mass that shut off the sun. Lights
twinkled from the windows OF Office
buildings in lower Manhattan. A gale
began blowing over the Hudson at 3.l5
o'clock, and six minutes later the rain fell.
Within a minute il had become a torrent.
So strong was the wind in Harlem that
Miss Carmelita Antiguadad. a Spanish
author and translator. who was at Broad
way and 10th St, was literally lifted up.
tossed about in half somersault and
thrown heavily TO the pavement, striking
on her head.
At the Washington Heights Hospital II
was said last night that her skull was
fractured and her nose broken. and that
her chances OF recovery were slight Tn
til her niece. Miss Inez Consuagra, who
lived with her at the Rolyat apartments
at 600 West 10th st, called at the hospital
last night the identity of Miss Antiguadad
was unknown. She is daughter of
former Governor in the United States OF
Colombia and has a wide reputation in
South America as a writer.
BY o'clock last night the storm clouds
were swept from the sky and only
gentle breeze was blowing. The tempera
ture had taken a tumble from 81 degrees
10 IS and nobody minded much To-day
Will be cooler according TO the weather
man.
All lights we're out in Tarrytown. North
Tarrytown, Irvington, Dobbs Ferry and
Hastings for several hours last night,
while wires blown down were being re-
strung. The heaviest rainfall of the storm
occurred in that neighborhood the water
in Main St. Tarrytown, at one time being
two feet deep.
Thousands Of young trees on the estate
Of John ID. Rockefeller. at Pocan;co
Hills. were snapped off or uprooted. while
the estate of John ID. Archbod suffered
in similar fashion.
The storm put the train service on tho
main line of the New Haven Railroad
completely out Of business as far north
as Port Chester from $3.50 until o clock.
IL also resulted in the blowing cut Of
fuses between New Rochelle and the Cos
Cob. Conn. power house, and for three
hours rot a wheel turned on the tracks
of the New York, Westchester & Boston
road.
Ii was 5 O'Clock last night before traffic
was fully resumed on the main line OF
the New Haven. Hundreds of passengers
were subjected to long delays
Washington, May IA wave OF in
tense heat, accompanied by enervating
humidity. settling over the Atlantic
states. the Ohio and the Middle MISSISSIPPI
pi valleys. brought temperatures to-day
near record breaking points and caused
suffering in many cities.
Richmond. Va. with temperature OF
o. degrees. was the only place where the
mercury established new record. In
Washington the enclosed thermometers
AT the elevated weather bureau regis
tered o. degrees. while those on the
streets marked 100. the official figure With
i'm one degree of the record for the warm
est May day since 1870. Three years ago
the mercury here reached Sc.
New York, Boston, Hartford. Albany
and Philadelphia sweltered, with the Of
fetal thermometers showing "a degrees.
St. Louis. Evansville and Terre llsute
had temperatures OF 20 degrees
Slightly cooler weather was promised
for the East during the remainder of the
week.
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