TRAGIC FREAK STORM
FOUR PERSONS KILLED NEW YORK LIGHTNING NEW YORK, July 20. The hottest Saturday afternoon this summer was broken by a freak electrical storm at 3 p.m. to-day 'which killed four persons nnd injured a score of others at beaches. In the New York metropolitan area, the temperature dropped from 00 degrees Fahrenheit to 07 within a lew minutes and torrential rain sent several thousand bathers scurrying for shelter with considerable traific disorder. The four persons killed were seeking shelter under a sheet iron roof. One had just commented on the foolishness' of persons staving on the bench during a storm. A bolt of lightning tore through the structure, horribly burning and mutilating the bodies.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18764, 22 July 1935, Page 7
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117TRAGIC FREAK STORM Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18764, 22 July 1935, Page 7
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