KILLED IN A STORM
FOUR HIT BY LIGHTNING BODIES HORRIBLY BURNED REFUGE PROVES USELESS BEACH CROWDS SCATTER By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 6.30 p.m. ■ New York, July 20The hottest Saturday afternoon of this summer was broken by a freak electrical storm at 3 p.m. to-day which killed four persons and injured a score of others. At beaches in the New York metropolitan area the temperature dropped from 90deg. Fahrenheit to 67deg. within a few minutes and torrential rain sent several hundred thousand bathers scurrying for shelter. There was considerable traffic disorder. The four persons killed were seeking shelter under a sheet iron roof. One had just commented on the foolishness of people staying on the beach during the storm when a bolt of lightning tore through the structure, horribly burning and mutilating the bodies.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1935, Page 5
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