New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-09
3 PARALYzED,
3 DEAD, DAYS
LIGHTNING TOLL
Girl Unframed When Bolt
Hits Buggy-EscOrt
Loses Mind.
RATHER STRUCK DEAD;
COMPANIONS ESCAPE
Ten Buildings Set Afire in
Camden - Loss More
than 100000.

New York got it's daily drenching at
4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when the
remnant of heavy thunderstorm.
which had Gcne great damage in New
Jersey, swept over the city. Apart
from the soaked costumes of Sunday
afternoon pleasure seekers. little harm
was done in the city by the rain. which
continued intermi.tently for about an
hour. What little strength remained to
the storm after its passage over Jer-
sey was expended on the suburbs.
While Miss Helen Kelly, of White
Plains, WAS driving with Frederick
Smith tie approaching shower drove
them TO seek shelter beneath a shed
near Scarsdale A bolt Of lightning hit
the structure killing me horse and
stunning Smith Miss Kelly was not
hurt. The young man was taken to
the white Plains Hospital. He was
hystcrical and suffering from scalp
wound and a cash in his abdomen. 1t
is believed that he will recover.
Another shed on Pelham Parkway
near White Plains Avenue was hit by
lightning. Fire spread to the adioin-
ing stable ard caused $500 damage be-
fore it was Cxtinguished.
Ten Camden Buildings Struck.
Philip Roberts, of Horton Avenue,
New Rochelle, was killed and Philip
Dillon, son Of ex-Mayor Michael j..
Dillon. of New Rochelle, was stunned
by lightning at Glen Island yesterday.
Dillon was revived in the New Ro-
chelle Hospital.
Abraham Abree, of Port Chester, was
killed and his wife and daughter
stunned by lightning, as they stood
under a shelter at Oakland Beach.
Twenty women and girls under
the same shelter were thrown down
by the shock.
The same bolt of lightning trav-
clled across the sand and out into
, Long Island Sound and capslzed three
canoes in which parties of young men
and girls were making for shore. All
escaped by swimming.
All of Central Ne, Jersey suffered
severely from the storm. Camden.
however, bore the brunt of its attack.
Ten buildings there were struck by
lightning. dnc three small boys. who
had sought shelter from the rain be-
meath an awning, are in Cooper Hos
pital. parGlyzcd from the waist down
by an elcctric shock.
The Camden Fire Department put in
the busiest afternoon in its history.
Shortly after the beginning of the
storm the factory of the Camden Cur
tain Rod Company was hit by lightning
and set on fire. By the time the APP
paratus arrived the interior of the
building was in flames. The damage
amounted TO $4,000.
Before this blaze had been eXtin-
guished another bolt ignited the build
ing of the Toone e. Hollingshead de-
partment store, three blocks away. The
lightning struck down into the cellar,
setting fire TO the storeroom. The rest
of the city's fire department responded
to this alarm. but the fire had gained
such Roadway that Sl25,000 damage was
sustained before it could be extin-
guished
Three Paralyzed by Bolt.
Anthony Goldberg, fifteen; Howard
Robbins, fourteen. and Richard Noon,
fourteen, took shelter beneath an avn
ing in Tenth Street when the storm
broke. They had been there only q mo-
ment when lightning hit their shelter,
hurting them into the street. All three
/ boys were stunned. An ambulance took
them to Cooper Hospital. where it was
discovered that all three were paralyzed
from the waist down.
Eight other buildings were hit dur
ing the downpour. but the resulting
fires were easily extinguished.
Lightning played an unusual trick at
Philipsburg, \. j., yesterday, when
George Feas, fifteen years old, was
struck by a bolt and instantly killed
while swimming in the Delaware. Other
bathers within a few feet of him were
not hurt