The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-23
LIGHTNING AND HEAT
DAMAGE AND ANNOY
Bolts Kill Valuable Race
Horses. splinter Flag Poles
and Hit Hospital.
HrMIDITY 100 PER CENT.

A sharp thunder shower yesterday
afternoon. attended by lightning. caused
considerable damage in and about New
York The lightning came as a climax
70 the mos, uncomfortable taste OF sum-
mer heat the city has had this year.
As usual IL wasn't the temperaturc
tu, the humidity that made almost
every one uncomfortable. And the hui
nudity in the early part OF the day was
100 per cent. That IL. the air was fully
saturated. holding as much water as IL
could possibly carry. In the afternoon
many persons were irresistibly impelled
10 the conclusion that the air held moro
water thar 1t could carry.
Even after the shower the humidity
stuck around 30 per cent. but a cool
breeze sprinsing up from the southwest
made things seem more pleasant.
The weather To-day.
The forecast of the Government
Weather Bureau is: Cloudy to-day and
fair tomorrow.
The thermometer, which had risen TO
Is degrees at Ia L. NJ, Just before
the shower. dropped to 6S degrees by 3
o'clock. The shower was recorded az
the weather Bureaus local Office as n
fall ~ ifty-ive hundredths OF an inch.
or this, forty hundredths fell In the half
hour from 2:20 to $50. which is fast
work but not a record. The storm came
from the southwest. The days average
N.aa IN lNttla aAA..- -
average OF the last May 20.
Two fagpoles on buildings in the
downtown section OF Brooklyn were
eplin;ered by lightning and a hundred
or more women rushed Historically
from surface cars into doorways neal
the Borough Hall. The damage in
BROOKLYN was estimated al $1,000.
With a crash that could he heard sev-
sral blacks fifteen feet of a fifty-foot
pole on the roof of a clothing establish
ment at Fulton and Smith streets struck
the car tracks in Smith street. An iron
ball on the top OF the STAFF barely
missed hitting a Manhattan bounu car.
Patrolmen McCaffrey and Lynch of
Traffic u had trouble in quietlng the
passengers. Several women were so
badly frightened they had TO be as
sisted home by friends.
a number or persons had narrow es-
capes when a sixty foot pole on the
cupola OF a manufacturing concern fac
ing the Manhattan Bridge Plaza was
whirled by the lightning to the ground
Bolt Hits Hospital.
Lightning struck the four foot stone
cross on the roof OF ST. Roses Hospital
FOR lncurable Cancer Patients, Front
and Jackson streets. and stripped from
4, the outer casing Of terra Gotta. The
whole building quivered from the shock
but there was no other damage. Mother
Superior Mary Rose Hubbard and the
eleven sisters who act as nurses quieted
the eighiy-fve patients.
Ten thousand persons at the Belmont
Park racetrack had "A taste OF the fury
q the storm. The running horses were
almost hidden from view by the rain,
and the lightning danced through tht
stands while women shivered.
Three racehorscs OF promise were
killed when the stable Of James Butler
al the head Of the seven furlong chute
Was struck. Apple. which won "A race
Friday. was one of those killed, He il
q three-year-old. by Iiippodrome. TIL,
others. which died at once, were two
year-olds-Jingling, by Ben Brush. anc
Kings Gift. by King James. The three
yedr-oId Diploma was badly injured
and eight other horses, including the
good racer Militant, were stunned
Fortunately the best horses of the But
ler stable were In the barn next dooi
and escaped the shock.