Show WIND DOES GREAT DAMAGE BLOWING 72 MILES AN HOUR new york july 3 A terrific here yesterday followed a period of intense heat there were four deaths from the heat today and a score or more ot prostration already three deaths directly traceable to the storm have been reported and many persons caught in the fury of the wind were injured at one time the gale blew at the rate of seventy two miles an hour in the upper part of new york according to the eather keather K bureau many places were truck by lightning which played continuously for an hour or more A great section of the manhattan field fence was blown down and there was almost a panic among the thousands of men and women who had gathered at the polo grounds adjoining to witness the new york st louis game the polo grounds were flooded with a foot of water the game was called off and the attention of the officials and police was directed to getting the half panic stricken baseball enthusiasts to a place of safety there were in reality two storms but they blended into one ahe bronx was the first to feel its effects and the lower portion of that borough suffered most A wind of extremely nigh velocity swept from west to east uprooting trees smashing sm ashing plate glass windows blowing pedestrian from their footing and doin all kinds of damage apparently the storm was in two divisions one advancing from the valley of the hudson river and the other approaching pro aching from long island sound which was torn into a fury by the force of the wind these two divisions met over the lower bronx with dazzling dis 1 plays of electricity the first wind storm was followed by a heavy fall of rain like a cloudburst in character and a shower of large hailstone fanny kinaley Ki a 6 acar old child frightened by the storm and blinded by the rain ran directly under a swiftly moving wagon and was killed instantly john dominick a dock laborer waa knocked into the east river by a plank which had been picked up by the wind and was drowned the wind swept the embers of a bon fire over the pinafore of 3 year old clarence hadden and he was burned to death miss mary carman of rockaway beach was dashed by the wind against the flatiron bunding and so badly in aured that she had to w taken to the new york hospital among the places struck by lightning or damaged by the gale were the church of the divine paternity on can i aral park west the hotel normandy the lancaster apartment bougeon bou seon west end avenue and the arbuckle lc building on water street |