Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1909 — TWO ARE KILLED BY CHICAGO LIGHTNING [ARTICLE]

TWO ARE KILLED BY CHICAGO LIGHTNING

Bolt Causes Panic on Street Car-Narrow Escapes. Chicago, July 30.—Two deaths by lightning resulted from a severe electrical storm that struck Chicago. The pranks of lightning bolts caused panic and injury in various parts of the city. The dead are James Turner, struck while driving his team at Sixty-eighth street and Michigan avenue: Carl Henson, seventeen years old, struck while working on a vegetable truck farm. Nearly a score of passengers on a Halsted street car narrowly escaped injury at Fifty-seventh street when a bolt of lightning struck the rear end of the car. The controller on the rear platform was broken by the lightning. The passengers, mostly women, jumped from their seats at the crash and rushed for the front exit. One woman fainted. Some of the women complained of having been scratched. Lightning struck the horse and buggy which Captain John Alcock of the Warren avenue police station left standing in front of his home. The buggy was demolished. The horse was knocked down, but was not injured. Several houses were struck by lightning and caught fire and several others were reported to have been hit by lightning during the storm. Hottest Since 1901 In Dubuque. Dubuque. la., July 30. The temperature here was 96.2, the hottest since 1901.