New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-09
$4,000 Damage Done by
Thunder ShOWer-BOlts
Hit Church.
Is FRUSTRATED
IN GREATER CITY
Lightning Strikes Trolley Car
Motorman and Four
Women Burned.

There was a two-hour oasis yester-
day in the sweltering heat that, d.
rectly and indirectly, took eight lives
in and near New York the storm that
broke over Manhattan at eleven min
utes after 8, causing the injury Of at
least five persons and doing damage by
wind and lightning throughout the
greater city estimated at more than
$50, 1000
While the police Of Manhattan and
Brooklyn we're recording Twenty-Five
prostrations the mercury was steadily
climbing toward 81 degrees. which it
bumped at gao o'clock. The Weather
Bureau promises for to-day mo change
in temperature and scattered thunder
and electrical storms"
Killed by the Heat.
The dead from yesterdays heat
were:
Unidentified man, about nifty;
stricken at foot Of Twenty-third
Street, Brooklyn.
Unidentified man, about thirty-hve,
wearing gray bathing suit, stricken
as he emerged from the ocean at
Coney Island.
Adolph Haus, ffty-two, Of l67 Har-
mon Street, Brooklyn.
Joseph Napuski, forty, Of Al East
18th Street, Bayonne.
William Dooley, forty-two, OF 81
West oath Street, Bayonne.
Mi:hael Sabrines, twenty-five, OF olS
East l36th Street, The Bronx; suicide
to escape heat.
Mrs. Yetta Pearlman, hfty-fve, OF OF
Eldridge Street, Manhattan; suicide.
Emanuel Woessner, seventy-hve, OF
574 East l4lst Street, The Bronx; sui
eide.
Only 50 at San Francisco.
When observers at the Weather Blu
reau reached their posts at o'clock
Yesterday morning the mercury already
stood at II. San Francisco at the
same hour had temperature OF o2,
while Miami, Fla, and Boston were
starting the day at 81 degrees. In New
York the mercury climbed steadily,
touching 81 degrees at 230 p. m, drop
ming down 70 rs during the storm, and
then creeping back TO 70 at the dinner
hour Bayonne, n. j.. where two deaths
from the heat occurred. reported
mid afternoon temperature varying pc
tween 95 and 100.
The storm, breaking at the Battery
/ shortly after 3 o'clock and reaching its
height at 3:34, brought injury and de-
! struction. Lightning ripped from the
} black, low-hanging clouds, shattering a
trolley car. a church steeple, hagstaifs,
ships masts, trees and burning barns
and houses.
Four women and one man were IN
iured when a lightning bolt struck the
role Of a Brooklyn Rapid Transit troll
lev in Ridgewood, Queens. The bolt
followed the pole to the roof OF the
car. in which il tore jagged hole.
Fire followed Immediately. The motor
man was struck 70 the floor OF MS
platform unconscious and four women
inside the ear were burned and shocked
Weather Bureau Struck.
Nearly a dozen bolts struck in the
neighborhood of Battery Park and New
York Bay. The weather observation
tower atop the Whitehall Building was
hit twice, and the wires by which 1t
sends out storm warnings were dam
aged. The hagpole near the Battery
sea wall. made from mainstay OF the
old battieship Constitution, was struck
and splintered, but the American nag
fiutteTing at its crest remained un-
harmed. Another bolt carried away the
facpole on the eastern side OF the
South Ferry building.
In Brooklyn, a tower OF ST. Annes
Episcopal Church. which stands on
Livingston Street, near Clinton. was
split by lightning. A four story tene-
ment house at 552 Suffer Avenue. East
New York, was struck. and the resi-
dents, with those of nearby houses,
were driven from their homes in the
rain. Many :rees were felled IN
Prospect Park.
The nome of William Rowely, at
Hastings on the Hudson, was struck
and much damaged. as was barn on
the estate 81 Mount Kisco. y. l.. OF
Elliott {. Cowdin.
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Day. employed on a farm near hignts-