New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-29
Lightning Hits
Roof Bungalow
q Floors Up
Showers Brick i'm the Midst
of Heavy Auto Traffic at
4oth St. and Vanderbilt
Ave-. but Injuries No One
Ship Struck by Bolt
Ossining Flooded, Gale at
Elizabeth, and Oyster Bay
Is Bonabarded by Hail

A short, sharp thundershower fell
upon the city yesterday afternoon al
$50. 1t lasted twenty-five minutes
The precipitation, according to the
Weather Bureau, was 10 of an incn
The temperature at its highest poin,
yesterday afternoon was 81 degrees
The Twenty-Five minute downpour, &C.
corning to the Weather Bureau, will
not affect the temperature for to-day
which 1t was said, would be about the
same.
Lightning struck the cornice of q
bungal"w built on top of the Wander.
bilt Concourse Building on the south
west corner Of Forty-ffth Street and
Vanderbilt r.venue, and knocked bricks
and b:-s - stone 20 the street, TWEEN
ty-two fionrs below. No one was nurt
DESPITE the neavy automobile traffic at
that corner.
Policeman Has Close Call
"Long Tom" Dugan, the traffic police
man Oh duty, had just left his post
when the stones began to fall. Several
of them landed on tne spot where he
had a moment before been directing
traffic.
The bungalow belongs to John Hast
ployees in it at the time, but no one
was hurt.
The administration building at
Harris Island was also struck by light
ming and q ton of brick and stone was
dislodged flom the coping. The dam
age is estimated at 1000. There was
no excitement among the employees
and no one was hurt.
At Ossining the storm did about $10,-
ln, fi.o oF
water loosened cobblestones and car
ried them away.
The storm was accompanied by wind
at Babylon, l.. l. Trees were blown
down, small boats were torn from their
moorings in the bay and a tent on the
lawn of St. Patrck's Roman Catholic
Church, in which a fair was to be held
Today, was wrecked.
Gailstones as large as marbles
rc1nced off Oyster Bay, L. l., and the
wafer in the main street was deep
"coul Ii for rowboats. All electric light
,erv'~e was stopped and telephone COM
'":1.ncation was disrupted.
=. elizabeth, N. j., the storm was &C
.o1hpanled by seventy mile gale A
short circuit in the current of an cleo
trio sign in front of Harry Olkind's
drug store, at 295 Morris Avenue.
caused fire which did $700 worth of
damage.
Bolt Hits Steamer
A bolt of lightning struck the fore
tops1:@st of the Red Star liner Samland
which arrived here from Danzig yes
terday, and shattered it for five feet
wnlle she was between Fire Island
ahG ambrose Channel.
according to Captain ]. D. King, the
Samland ran into heavy thunder
STORM about A p. H. and Chief Officer
Maurice Immers, on his way to the
bridge to relieve the watch, heard a
swapping sound in the direction of the
foremost and saw large ball of fire
shoot across the deck into the sea.
There was heavy roar of thunder and
a terrific downpour of rain. The look
out in the crows nest and his relief
who was climbing the mast, were
blinded temporarily, but otherwise un.
harmed.
The steamship Munplaze, in yester-
day from Cuba with a cargo of sugar
also reported that she had been struck
by lightning Half her house flag was
burned by bolt several days ago while
she was lying in the harbor of Ma
tanzas.