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Show ONE MAN" KILLED IN A STOEM IN NEW YOEK. NEW TORK, June 27. A storm of cyclonic proportions, accompanied by a terrific deluge of rain, passed over Harlem and ths Bronx this afternoon, causing widespread havoc. A building In course of erection In One Hundred and Thirty-sixth street, near Riverside -drive, wss demolished, John Lawler, foreman of ths bricklayers, being crushed to death and two Italian laborers severely Injured. The wrecked building wss one of a row of new apartment bouses. Lawler and the two laborers, seeing ths storm approaching from ths New Jersey shore, started for ths street and had reached ths flrst floor when the building build-ing collapsed. Abraham Pearlman of the Arm of Pearlman A Brown, ths builders of ths house, and Abraham Borderek. the superintendent superin-tendent of construction, were later arrested. The lower section of ' the city experienced only a somewhat heavy gale, with no rain. The wind reached a velocity of forty-three miles an hour. Plats glass windows wsre shattered and trees and chimneys blown down. The storm passed within fifteen minutes. |