Show GREAT ELECTRICAL STORM Havoc Wrought In New York and Now Jersey Sunday r New York Aug 13 Latest reports of the big electrical storm which passed over this section yesterday show that the havoc wrought by the lightning and wind was unusually severe Lightning struck the Gllsey house split one of the flag poles and shook the hotel to Its very foundation The great gilt ball and a twelvefoot piece of the polo fell Into Twentyninth street Another section of the pole struck the street on the Broadway side I weighed more than 300 pounds E Benner a bicyclist was Instantly killed by a bolt of lightning during the storm while standing In the doorway of Benjamin Brothers bathing pavilion on the short of Great South bay near Bay Shore L I Thomas Dunn 16 years old was killed by lightning as he stood beneath 0 giant oak tree where he had sought shelter from the storm near Jamaica L I I In Jersey City the gale tore off forty feet of the roof of St Pauls German Evangelical Lutheran church and knocked down part of the rear wall A trolley car of tho North Jersey Street Railway company was struck by lightning in Orange N J and the car was enveloped In lame In the rush to escape live persons were Injured two of them seriously Mary Lombard 6 years old of Orange sustained severe scalp wounds and Injuries about the body Mrs Kohler of Newark was wounded about the head and Injured Internally I I I At Bloomfleld N J a circus tent was blown down At Elizabeth lightning struck a tank In the oil yard on Front street and started a blaze At Hackcnaack N J the wind stripped limbs from trees A score of trees wei9 hit by lightning and torn to pieces Uprooted trees mark the course of tho storm In Hoboken About 200 yards of tho fence Inclosing St Georges cricket grounds was also blown down and the gospel tent In n vacant lot was ripped Into shreds and thrown across the street The training quarters of Joe Bernstein stein the pugilist In this city were struck by lightning Mrs Bernstein was knocked unconscious by the bolt and did not recover her senses for more than twenty minutes When the lightning light-ning struck the house Bernstein and Jimmy Michael the cyclist wero punching the bag in a room adjoining that In which was Mrs Bernstein the punching apparatus wau ruined by the lightning but both Michael and Bernstein escaped Injury |