ELECTRICAL STORM
FOtn DEATHS IH HEW YHIK Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW’YORK, July 2a The hottest Saturday afternoon thi| summer was broken by a freak electrical storm at 3 o’clock to-day whicli killed four persons and injured a score of others at the beaches. In the New York metropolitan area the temperature dropped from 90deg Fahiv to 67 within a few minutes, and torrential rain sent several hundred thousand bathers scurrying for shelter with con. siderable traffic disorder. Four persons were killed when seeking shelter under a sheet-iron roof. One had just commented on the foolishness of persons staying on the beach during the storm when a bolt of lightning tore through the structure, horribly bum* and mutilating the bodies.
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Evening Star, Issue 22087, 22 July 1935, Page 6
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119ELECTRICAL STORM Evening Star, Issue 22087, 22 July 1935, Page 6
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