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Show oo SUMMER RESORTS STRUCK BY STORM New York. Aug 1 Several persons were injured, none fatally, and some districts were badly flooded during I the storm which struck the city this I afternoon Coney Island was the worst sufferer from the cloudburst The lightning struck a few places, but the damage was comparati vol slight. Surf avenue. Coney Island, was turned into a river a foot and a hall deep bv the downpour Row boats were used to carry persons across the street and small boys with rafts collected col-lected manv dimes for the same service ser-vice to the throngs of visitors who emerged from places where they sought shelter during the height of the storm and who were anxious to get to railroad stations The water flooded many places and in the rathskeller of the Brighton inn waiters in bathing suits served pa trons perched on the backs of chairs A number of women removed shoes and stockings to wade to the cars from different hotels and music halls Street railway traffic at the Island, as In many other parts of the city, was tied up from ten minutes to half an hour by the downpour. At Rockaway beach the scenes at Coney Island were duplicated to a large extent. The storm caused more or less havoc hav-oc at places around the city. At Belvedere, N. J , the rain undermined a signal tower of the Pennsylvania railroad The operator escaped before be-fore the tower rolled down an embankment em-bankment The roadbed was washed away In places and traffic on the division di-vision was tied up |