The New York herald., 1922-07-14
HEAT ANDLIGHTNINGI
KILL FIVE PERSONS
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ported. Seoastiano Duletto. so. of 80
Cunther street. Corona, died in Flushing
Hospital after he had been found un-
conscious at sixty-ninth and Vine
streets. Corona. Peter Nielsen, 23. was
overcome and fell from a barge at Sixty
fifth street and Hudson River and was
drowned. His body was recovered.
Lightning struck an aerial on the roof
OF 40s West Forty-fourth street. trav-
elled down the lead in wire and burnt
out a radio set owned by Charles
Downes. The lightning then set fire to
woodwork and curtains. Firemen ex-
tInguished the blaze.
In The Bronx. Staten Island and
Brooklyn hundreds of cellars were
flooded. cars stopped and motorists
marooned until the water subsided. Four
worknen were injured when lightning
struck two story building at Fenton
avenue, near Pelham Bay Parkway, and
ciumpled the structure. Three were
taken to Fordham Hospital. The four
were John Leoyrant, As. of 3s5 White
Plains avenue Frank Allegro. 40, of 321
East IL 4th street: Joseph Lauter 36. of
IS White Plains avenue. and August
johnson. 327 Beekman avenue.
An automobile driven by James Muir
ray OF $40 West 165th street got out OF
control in the rain and crashed through
the window of japanese restaurant at
2945 Broadway. striking Doris Schlotz-
hauer. a waitress. The machine also
crashed into another on its trip across
tie slippery street. The waitress was
cut and bruised.
The fire alarm system was endangered
when the lightning struck the fiagpole of
the Fire Headquarters Building at ISL
East Sixty-seventh street. A snort time
later another bolt struck the home of
Mrs. Sophie Watts Sherman at s38
Fifth avenue. across the street from the
Vincent Astor residence. About $4,000
damage was done to valuable furniture.
Mrs. Sherman is in Newport and had
closed the house.
Mayor Hylan was inspecting some Of
the 900 portable street showers earlier
in the day and at one place got a duck
ing as one of the shower sprays swung
toward him.
in because water flooded cellar engine
rooms and caused huge clouds Of steam
to pour from the apartment house base
ment.v Persons seeing these steam clouds
took them to be smoke and turned in
alarms. No estimate of the property
damage could be obtained, but in The
Bronx alone IL was said that it was
more than 100000. Hundeds of flooded
cellars are not included In that esti-
mate.
In New Jersey several severe acci-
dents and death were reported. At
Mount Holly the lightning. making
two inch hole in the farmhouse of
Charles Stewart. struck and killed his
daughter Myrtle. The
house was not set afire. Union Hill.
Palisades. Fairview. North Bergen and
other New Jersey localities reported
fires caused by lightning. From up the
Hudson it was reported that thunder
rolled in one continuous peal for nearly
an hour. James H. Scarr at the
Weather Bureau said that this was un-
usual. but may have been due to an
Illusion caused by the foothills of the
Catskills which reverberated with the
rolls of thunder. making them sound like
one continuous peal. The lightning
struck small motor boat in the re-
plant of the Tidewater Oil
Company at Constable Hook. Bayonne.
The hagpole Of the police station at
Richmond Terrace. West New Brighton,
was shattered. but the station was not
fred