FREAK ELECTRICAL STORM
Lightning Kills Four on New York Beach
TEMPERATURE SUDDENLY DROPS 23 DEGREES
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.
(Received July 21, 6.30 p.m.)
New York, July 30.
Tlie holiest Saturday afternoon this summer was broken by a freak electrical storm at 3 p.m. to-day which lulled four persons and injured a score of others at beaches in the New York metropolitan area. The temperature dropped from 90 degrees Fahrenheit to 67 degrees within a few minutes and torriential rain sent several hundred thousand bathers scurrying for shelter with considerable trallic disorder.
Four persons were killed when seeking shelter under a sheet-iron roof. One h.nl just commented on the foolishness of persons staying on the beach during the storm. A bolt of lightning tore through the structure, horribly burning and mutilating the bodies..
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 252, 22 July 1935, Page 9
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