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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1916
Page
2
A Boston area storm ends a drought with heavy rain and record heat drops. Telephones and power lines failed as lightning damaged churches, greenhouses, and homes from Danvers to Ipswich. Readings hail and wind harmed crops and property. a boy narrowly escaped injury in a dust storm.
A powerful late day storm battered the south shore with high winds and heavy rain. In Plymouth a barn burned after lightning struck it, 20 tons of hay lost, and the fire department fought the blaze. Dozens of residents from Wakefield to Saugus reported damages from shattered ledges to damaged roofs, with injuries and one serious condition from a man struck by lightning.
The day’s deaths include Daniel F. Coakley 71 of Newton overcome at 1191 Washington Street Dorchester. James Lawler 40 of Charlestown found dead at Cloughs lumber wharf Charlestown. Patrick Dowd driver for Everett Mills 212 High Street Lawrence overcome at work. Mrs Francis Sunderquist Manchester New Hampshire and Annie D Riley Gloucester listed among the deceased. Jeremiah McGonagle 27 of Brighton overcome near 195 Chelsea Street Charlestown. John A. Harding 57 of Charlestown listed among others.
A Gloucester lightning strike killed Mrs. Annie L. Riley, 50, who stood at a window with her daughter Miss Gertrude Riley when a bolt entered the chimney and struck her. Several others were hurt as two storms hit, and a church steeple was knocked off in the area amid more than a dozen building strikes.
A series of heavy thunder showers in Newburyport caused multiple fires from lightning. Haystacks on Plum Island burned, a High street tenement caught fire, and a chimney was struck. A cow belonging to P H Ilisley was killed by a bolt, and an auto truck near Parker River bridge plunged off a railing after the storm began. Two occupants escaped injury.
Lawrence reports Patrick Dowd a 29 year veteran teamster at the Everett Mill died after collapsing at work due to extreme heat. He leaves a widow four sons and two daughters. The city endured the hottest day of the year followed by a severe thunderstorm causing damage including a lightning strike on a Methuen barn and widespread downed trees and power outages.
PORTSMOUTH N H Aug 8 During a thunder and lightning storm today I R Noyes of Concord a fireman on the Boston Maine railroad sustained a shock while the locomotive of a Portsmouth train stopped to take water at Raymond Station The galvan ized pipe of the water tank was charged with electricity from the storm and he was knocked unconscious on the coal pile of the tender He was unable to complete his run and was sent to his home on a north bound train.
Owing to the intense heat this afternoon many mills in Olneyville Pawtucket Woonsocket and the Pawtuxet Valley and other mill sections were closed and employees given the afternoon off The temperature reached 90 in the shade in this city
A Medford High School student Leo Foley and William Berry dived to rescue a child who waded into a river and disappeared. They retrieved the boy after several efforts, but despite medical help at Dr Bean’s office and at the Medford Palmotor, the child died. The boy was the youngest of ten children of Mr and Mrs Gingras.
In Hull Bay opposite the Weymouth House 16 year old Abraham Stone, son of real estate dealer Harry A Stone, drowned when a crudely made boat capsized during a storm. His companion Lawrence Smith, 14, swam ashore after a failed rescue attempt. Smith had built the boat.
A 2 year old girl and her 6 year old brother wandered from home to an artificial pond on the Lucy Harrington estate in Concord. The girl drowned despite after hours of attempts. the boy, Mark, was saved by 12 year old Robert Huntoon who swam twice to pull them out and perform first aid. The pond’s four foot depth and dammed brook feature are noted.
Arturo Crasullo, 26, drowned at Edgewood Beach while teaching his young son to swim. He waded from a sand bar into suddenly deep water. the boy was saved by other bathers. Crasullo's body had not been recovered.
Mills in the city halted operations today as near record heat swept the area. The mercury lingered at dangerous levels throughout the day causing closures and disruption to production.
Barre Aug 8 Special officers reported no trouble at the plant after a deadly clash yesterday. A man was shot and killed and about a dozen wounded as police and strikers clashed during an attempt to free a man arrested amid the strike.
Manchester New Hampshire August 8. Mrs Francis Sunderquist 71 died today as heat wave sizzled the region. Thermometers peaked at 99 degrees.
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