The New York herald., 1921-09-04
TWO ARE KILLED
BY LIGHTNING BOLTS
Bronx Girl Meets Death as She
Leaves Water at Rock
away Beach.
SCORE STUNNED IN CITY
Rolling Bali Rips Cornice in
sd Street and Knocks
18 Men Flat.
SCORE STUNNED IN CITY

Two persons were killed by lightning
yesterday in the storm which swept
over New York and parts of New
Jersey during the afternoon. Miss
Hazel Donohue, 20, of 33 Hull avenue,
The Bronx, was struck at Rockaway
Beach and almost instantly killed. Her
mother, Mrs, Mary Donohue. was
stunned by the bolt, but recovered.
At Dover. N. j.. John Babcock, so.
was killed as he stood in the doorway
Of his home. his clothing being ripped
from his body. Babcock's seven-year-
old nephew was stunned and horse
belonging to Babcock was killed
More than 1000 bathers saw the
death of Miss Donohue. She and her
mother. with the Others hurried from the
water toward the lighthouses when the
storm began, but the girl had just
stepped from the water when the flash
came. Both she and her mother fell to
the ground and were carried into the
lighthouses by several men. The girls
clothing had been torn from her body.
A bolt OF lightning struck the roof
edge Of the twelve story loft building at
1856 West Fifty-second street. dislodging
a fifty pound cornice stone. whisked
down the side of the building and in
westerly direction crossed the front Of
a garage on the ground floor.
Twelve men standing in front of the
garage flet flat. stunned momentarily,
and half dozen laborers at work on q
conduit laying Job in the middle Of the
street, welding iron and steel tools. also
were knocked down. The cornice stone
crashed down within three feet Of one
of the men at the garage door. but did
not injure him. nor were any OF the
men hurt beyond the jolt when they
dropped to the sidewalk.
The storm in the city. which lasted
only ten minutes. produced less than
one-tenth of an inch Of rainfall, but II
brought the temperature which had set
a new record for September since 1888
down from s1 to n degrees.
A barn owned by Mrs. Mary weinars,
in jackson avenue. North Beach. Queens
vas struck and burned. Four horses, a
COW and a goat were burned with II.
Firemen we're called from Corona and
Elmhurst
Four heat prostrations were reported.
The victims were Peter Tames. 62s
.s1st street Richard Fitzgerald, 2o5
East sixty-ninth street: Max Bank,
1853 Nostrand avenue, Brooklyn, and
John Barnett. 4o6 Eaet sixty-ifth street.
Barnett and Tames were taken TO hos
pitfalls. but will recover. Fitzgerald and
Bank were taken home.
The Weather Bureau records showed
the temperature climbed from rs at 8
A. NJ. to ~ at 4 O'Clock when the storm
broke. II was said at the Weather Bu-
reau offices that back In the T0s during
the nrst week In September tempera-
ture of 100 was recorded In this city.
There may be another shower to-day.
LYNN, Mass. Sept. 3.--A bolt Of light
ming killed Donald Lewis. a 12-year-old
boy. near Nahant Beach late to-day
Norman and Robert Therrion, his COM
panions, were rendered Unconscious and
partly paralyzed. but II is believed they
will recover. The lads had been swim
ming and were on their way home In
their bathing suits There had been no
rain and the flash came without warn
ing.