Lightning Ravages Greater Boston Killing Child and Wounding Others
A severe electrical storm struck Boston and surrounding towns causing fatalities and widespread damage. A girl died after stepping on a live line as a wire ripped from its support, and Harold A. Angell, 15, of Malden, was killed drinking outside an Everett barn as lightning leaped from a windmill. Fires and structural damage followed, with weather permitting cooling trends and continued rain after the storm.
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Broadway
Norfolk Street
Harold A. Angell
Malden
Everett
Boston
Boston Sees Nine Straight 90 Degree Days Before Storm
An electrical storm ended a record heat wave in Boston where nine consecutive days topped 90 degrees for the first since 1872. Yesterday reached 90 degrees shortly before lightning and rain broke out, lasting about a half hour before fading away.
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Washington
New England
Boston
Mercury
Lightning Hills Boy Killed As Storm Ravages Area
A severe storm with heavy rain thunder and lightning struck Malden Medford and Everett causing one death and property damage. Harold A Angell 15 of Maiden was struck and killed at Towle farm Everett while drawing water. Fires started by the bolt damaged a barn and other buildings.
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Malden
Medford
Everett
Harold A. Angell
William H. Angell
Lynn Street
Maiden
Towle Farm
Fuller Street
Washington Avenue
Angell
Wellington Towle
Ross
John Bruce
Thomas Durell
Somerville
Fire and flood hit Malden caused by storm
A lightning strike on Serve Street, Malden, sparked a fire damaging about 300 dollars as shingles burned. Heavy rain caused gutters on Baker's Hill to overflow and wash gravel from Granville Avenue. On Salem Street, cars were halted for half an hour while workers cleared tracks.
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Serve Street
Malden
Baker’s Hill
Granville Avenue
Salem Street
Lightning strikes Chelsea flats injure Italian fishermen
A bolt of lightning hit mud at Chelsea flats where 30 Italian clam diggers worked with metal gear. Lobetto Luccio, 34, suffered a severe head wound and two other men were knocked down by the shock. Luccio was rushed to the Relief station, later reported improving with a chance of recovery.
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Chelsea Flats
Lobetto Luccio
Garden Court Street
North End
Luccio
Dery
Rhodes
Winchester Town Hall Hit By Electrical Storm
A severe storm struck Winchester and Woburn with lightning causing extensive damage. The Winchester Town Hall tower lost siding on the west side, a line wire broke, a horse was killed by a falling live wire, and sewers and cellars flooded. Woburn saw a cracked water main flooding Putnam street and water outages expected. Fire in Arlington street house was put out by rain. telephones out in many areas.
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Winchester
Woburn
George Pratt
Putnam Street
Nashua Street
Thomas Quirk
Arlington Street
Cambridge Girl Killed by Lightning Fueled Live Wire
Twelve year old Florence Scully of Cambridge was fatally electrocuted when a live wire severed by a lightning bolt fell near Norfolk street and Broadway during a storm. Her brother Benjamin Scully Jr. tried to rescue her. a lineman freed the body and she died at Cambridge Relief Hospital.
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Cambridge
Florence Scully
Benjamin Scully
Market Street
Norfolk Street
Broadway
Benjamin Scully, Jr
Cambridge Relief Hospital
Severe Thunderstorms Hit Waltham Causes Wide Damage
Lightning hail and rain from two severe storms damaged Waltham. Over 2 percent of trees were felled, a tree blocked the Fitchburg division track, Moody street flooded, and lightning struck the police station Elks home Plympton Schoolhouse and several houses. Streetcar and telephone service were crippled for hours.
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Fitchburg
Boston & Maine
Moody Street
Elks
Plympton
Crescent
Grant
Main
Whitcomb
Floyd Streets
Lightning Fires at Chelmsford Street Hospital Barn
A bolt struck the Chelmsford Street Hospital barn at 3 PM, igniting a fire that destroyed the barn with 50 tons of hay. Twenty cows were saved by hospital workers and firefighters, while 10 horses in an adjoining building were saved though the structure suffered heavy damage. A nearby storehouse burned part of its contents but all property was removed. Total loss estimated at 15,000 dollars. Inmates were alerted and prepared for possible evacuation as the fire raged until 5:60 PM.
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Bolt Lowell
Chelmsford Street Hospital
Lightning Strikes Somerville Causing Damage and Shock
A severe lightning storm hit Somerville striking at least four sites. Grace Darling fainted and others were shocked or felled including Gerald Butler who was knocked down. The Y M C A pole and 74 Walnut street house were struck. church roof damaged but not torn off. Sewers and subways flooded, cars stalled in Union Square.
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Somerville
Gerald Butler
City
Charles. E. Parkhurst
Walnut Street
Grace Darling
Rosaland Murphy
Catherine Harrington
Edna Finley
Madeline Friel
A. E. Merrill
Butler
John H. Fliate
Highland Avenue
Kent
Sacramento
Thorndike
Union Square
Webster Youth Rescued From Webster Lake By Helper
John Vaughn, a Boston boy camping on Long Island in Webster Lake, was rescued from drowning after falling from a canoe. Stanley Pearl of Webster dived in and pulled him out, the heat leaving the boy prostrated.
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Webster
Hub
Lake Webster
John Vaughn
Boston
Long Island
Webster Lake
Stanley Pearl
Death of plumber John Kehoe at heat affected worksite
John Kehoe a 63 year old plumber of 43 Carver street collapsed from heat exhaustion while at 380 Marlboro street early yesterday. A physician pronounced him dead.
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John Kehoe
Carver Street
Marlboro Street
Two Cambridge and Everett youths electrocuted by live wire
Florence Scully aged 12 of 16 Market Street Cambridge and Harold Angell aged 15 of 405 Lynn Street Malden were electrocuted by a live wire during farm and street incidents. Florence near Norfolk Street and Broadway Cambridge, Harold at Towle Farm corner of Fuller and Washington Everett while getting a drink outside a barn.
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Market Street
Cambridge
Norfolk Street
Harold A. Angell
Lynn Street
Malden
Towle Farm
Fuller and
Washington Streets
Everett
Lightning Wrecks Salem Street House Seventy Rooms Damaged
A bolt of lightning struck a 14 room two family house on Salem Street in Wakefield causing four occupants to be stunned. The house suffered severe interior damage with ceilings and woodwork torn down and crockery broken. Three visiting women, Mrs. Arthur Moulton and Misses Ida and Thelma Curtis, were knocked unconscious by the shock. The fire was extinguished by rain leaving an estimated damage of 1500 dollars. The bolt traveled through a wireless apparatus and ended in a nearby grove. Wind also damaged trees and crops townwide.
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Wakefield
Salem Street
Arthur Moulton
Ida
Thelma Curtis
Gloucester
Moulton
Rockport Girl Struck as Gloucester Storm Rages
A major electrical storm hit Cape Ann with heavy lightning damage. About forty houses and many trees were struck. Miss Nannie Carlberg of Rockport was knocked unconscious when lightning struck a willow tree she walked beneath near the Delphine cottage in East Gloucester.
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Gloucester
Cape Ann
East Gloucester
Delphine Cottage
Nannie Carlberg
Rockport
South Shore Storm Hits Plymouth Area
The July storm swept the south shore from Greenbush to Brant Rock with a fierce gale. Coleman Heights Hotel in Greenbush was hit by a bolt and saved by responders. Miss Sarah Macomber’s Marshfield Hills home suffered damage but no fire. Trees, poles, and flooding disrupted Plymouth streets and gardens after seven dry weeks.
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Plymouth
Greenbush
Coleman Heights
Marshfield Hills
Sarah Macomber
Little’s Bridge
Brant Rock
Lightning Strikes Station Roof and City Floods
A thunderstorm struck the Cambridge depot at Porter's station and a nearby electric car was disabled by a bolt. Roof shingles ripped from 15 Whitier Street, a Kellogg’s stable flagpole fell, and water flooded cellars across Cambridgeport East Cambridge Dana Hill and Old Cambridge due to inadequate sewerage.
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Boston & Maine Railroad
Porter’s Station
Massachusetts Avenue
Whittier Street
T. P. Treadwell
T. M. Merriam
Kellogg’s
Somerville
Cambridgeport
East Cambridge
Charles River
Dana Hill
Old Cambridge
Clever “Keep Cool” Ideas In Big Stores
During a severe heat spell Boston stores tried inventive cooling. A Shuman & Co. installed ice buckets before electric fans, using 16 000 pounds of ice daily to drive down the temperature. Shepard Norwell Co. cooled floors with ice water and served iced drinks, leading to afternoon closings as a storm ended the heat wave.
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Revere
Boston
A. Shuman & Co
Shepard Norwell Company
Woman Endangers Self in Heat Wave Attempt
In Brockton on July 11, Mrs. James H. Galvin of 288 Grove Street attempted to hang herself with a necktie tied to a chandelier. Her 18 year old son James Anderson arrived moments later, cut away the tie, and City Physician C. G. Miles revived her after four hours of effort.
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Brockton
James H. Galvin
Grove Street
James Anderson
C. G. Miles
Lightning Routs Damage Across Middleboro Area
Lightning and three hours of heavy rain caused wide damage in Middleboro and neighboring towns. The trolley system was halted and the Taunton line remained shut at night. In Carver three houses were struck and a fire burned acres of pine. In Lakeville Fred Shaw’s barn, storing 40 tons of hay, burned for a loss of about 2000 dollars.
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Middleboro
Taunton
Carver
Lakeville
Fred Shaw
Lightning Strikes Two Lynn Churches
A Lynn storm damaged two churches as lightning struck the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church causing part of its steeple to fall and burn the roof. The St. Jean de Baptiste Roman Catholic Church roof and tower were lifted and carried two blocks away landing intact with no injuries.
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Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church
Boston Street
St. Jean de Baptiste Roman Catholic
Lightning Strikes Lynn Steeples Injures Woman
Lightning struck several Lynn and Nahant steeples today injuring Mrs. Ella O'Neil of 25 Ames Street Lynn who was rendered unconscious. Trinity M E Church on Tower Hill caught fire and the blaze was put out with chemicals at a loss of 200 dollars. The French church St Jean Baptiste at Endicott and Franklin was also struck with the bolt going to the ground between steeple and roof.
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Nahant
Ella O’neil
Ames Street
Trinity M. E
Tower Hill
St. Jean Baptiste
Endicott
Franklin Streets
Bolt damages home and starts fire at Ames Street residence
A bolt entered the home of William ONeil at 25 Ames street tearing through the chimney and roof. It caused a $20 loss and left Mrs. Ella ONeill shocked and unconscious after fire was started in the upper area and spread to the cellar.
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William O'Neil
Ames Street
Ella O’neil
Electrical storm stuns mill workers in Biddeford incident
In Biddeford a powerful electrical storm damaged property including the Pepperell Manufacturing mill tower and a public library. Six mill workers were stunned, streetcar fuses burned out, and an Atlantic Shore line car was struck causing passenger injuries and telegraph outages for hours.
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Biddeford
Poslam Promoted for Summer Skin Care and Fresh Samples
Advert describes Poslam as a universal skin remedy for sunburn, mosquito bites, rashes, acne and other conditions. It warns of benefits after one application and notes Poslam Soap for daily cleansing. Free samples offered from Emergency Laboratories in New York.
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West 25Th Street
New York City
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