New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12
Lightning Strokes Fall
Within Hundred Feet
of Each Other.
FILM PLAYER DEAD;
ACTRESS BURNED
Boys Looking On Are Knocked
DoWn-Man Receives Fatal
Shock While Boating.

Two bolts OF lightning, striking al
most simultaneously within 100 feet OF
each other, killed n man and injured a
woman, man and two boys at the
Grassy Springs Reservoir, near Yon-
kers, yesterday.
The first bolt shot into the midst Of
n group of Vitagraph players just as
they reached the shelter of the porch
of the French House. Chad Fisher,
leading man in the play, whose filming
the storm had interrupted, dropped
dead.
Captain Lambert, one of the direc-
tors, and Lily Herbert, an actress, were
badly burned. The former was uncon-
scious for more than an hour
DR.. II. r. Baremore, of Yonkers, who
attended the stricken persons, does not
anticipate any serious results to either
Captain Lambert or Miss Herbert
Bolt Strikes Two Boys.
The second bolt struck two boys
who had been watching the action of
the play and were following the COM
pany to shelter. They were Fred
Glass, 125 Oak St, and Cyrus Conrad,
1863 Lindent St, Yonkers. They were
about 200 feet behind the others, and
in the panic caused by the first bolt
several minutes passed before the ac-
cident was noticed.
They were carried into the hotel and
after treatment by DR.. Baremore we're
able to walk home. Their necks and
shoulders were burned.
The storm had come up suddenly
while the Vitagraph players were en-
acting the final scene of the film drama
on the bank of the reservoir. The
whole company ran toward the hotel,
and had just set foot on the porch
when the lightning struck.
By a binding flash of lightning in
the height of the storm Captain John
Hickey of the tugboat Saranac made
out a motor boat in the Lower Bay
drifting toward Robbins Reef. BY the
next flash he saw two persons lying
motionless in the boat.
Lightning Kills Man.
The Saranac got a line aboard and
rescued a man and woman, both I'M
conscious. By the time the Saranac
got to the st. George terminal of the
municipal ferry the young woman had
recovered consciousness and the man
was dead. Both had been struck by
lightning.
Freda Fremburg, Of 17s North ST.,
Jersey City Heights, the young woman,
was badly burned. Her companion was
William Anderson, of 81 Bloomfield
st., Hoboken. The boat, Show Ne, was
the property of the Hackensack Boat
Club.
Four employees on the Broadway
Lexington av. subway construction
were buried under an earthslide
caused by the heavy rain on Southern
Boulevard between 141st and 142d SITS.
The injured, all of whom will re-
cover, are: Charles Hyer, 748 st.
AIMS av., body bruises; Vincenzo
Zorro, 300 West 9th ST., fractured
skull and lacerated scalp; Lewis MAJ
zono, 720 East 2l2th ST., cuts on scalp,
and Edward Schnellbogh, 7th av. and
13Sth St, fractured jaw and cuts on
head. Hyer is a signal man and the
other three laborers.
Dig Men from Wreckage.
The slide carried the 15-foot plat
form on which Hyer was standing, to-
gether with five dirt cars and mar
row gauge track, to the bottom of the
thirty-five-foot cut.
Police from the Alexander av. sta
ton and Hook and Ladder Company
20 extricated the injured men from
the wreckage. They were removed to
Lincoln Hospital, a short distance
away.
Frightened by the lightning, three
horses attached TO Engine Al became
unmanageable at 150th st. and Third
av. and crashed into an al" pillar. The
horses went on either side of the pill
lar and escaped injury, but Driver
Michael Ryan, strapped to the seat,
received a score of bruises. lie was
taken to Lebanon Hospital.
Bathers Are Stunned.
Lightning struck the home Of Mrs.
Edward 3. Lane, at Milford av. and
Cross ST., City Island, and scattered
bricks from the chimney for more than
a hundred feet. Bathers on the Lane
Bathing Beach and frequenters of the
City Island Yacht Club, on either side
of the Lane house, were stunned by
the shock.
Six-foot geysers spouted from the
sewer manholes in the low part of Will
iamsburg, known locally as "the cid
flooded district" when the pressure of
storm water forced off the heavy iron
covers in a dozen blocks. Three feet
Of water stood in the streets at the
height of the storm, and it was nearly
two hours before it had subsidized
enough to permit street cars to resume
service. No traffic of any kind was
possible until an hour after the rain
had stopped, and thousands of persons
homeward bound were forced to take
refuge in the shops.
The storm caused Charles Seigert,
of PAS Blocker st, to become so ex-
cited at South Beach that he suffered
stroke of apoplexy and dropped dead
on the boardwalk close to Bsssi's Hotel.