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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1915
Page
2
A powerful lightning storm across the Bay State injures and kills, tearing roofs and chimneys, wrecking two electric cars in Melrose and Wakefield, shocking workers near Cambridge and Everett, and causing widespread property loss from Malden to Woburn. Dozens flee as poles and towers are toppled while roads flood and utilities fail.
Two trolley bolts brought down an electric wire pole on Washington Street in Woburn Meadow, leaving a woman unconscious and others frightened. Police and bystanders aided the injured as cars stalled and passengers scattered in the chaos.
A severe electrical storm struck Maynard causing about 4000 in damage. The American Smokeless Powder Company glazing mill was exploded by lightning, shaking the area with no injuries reported. Two nearby houses were struck and weather ruined several washouts.
In Highlands Melrose yesterday afternoon a heavy storm struck two electric cars. Mrs. Charles Walsh of Lynn, unconscious after one crash, was revived at a drug store and later continued home. Other passengers were knocked motionless but the lightning moved along the wires with little effect inside the cars.
A violent thunderstorm struck over the Mystic valley yesterday, hitting more than a dozen sites in Everett Malden and Medford. Fires floods and wrecked power shut down traffic as two horse team bolted through Malden and a factory where about 60 female workers fled while flames rose from an electric motor.
Five hundred children ages 3 to 15 were thrown into confusion and danger when an electrical storm caused the lights to go out at the Home Theatre in Glendale Square Everett. Panic neared as darkness engulfed the crowded theater during the afternoon storm.
A severe storm battered Cambridge yesterday. Three cemetery workers J R McCarthy C W Burke and F E Donelon sought shelter under a tree when lightning split the tree and knocked them down. Burke and Donelon were discharged. McCarthy remained under care. The Lafayette Square fire station tower was wrecked and debris scattered. A flag pole fell at Broadway Common and a telegraph pole wire box sparked a small blaze at Mason and Brattle streets.
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