Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1901 — Wholesale Lightning Slaughter. [ARTICLE]

Wholesale Lightning Slaughter.

Eleven persons, one a man and the other ten boys, were killed by a single bolt of lightning in Chicago Monday. They had been fishing in the lake and the rain had driven them to shelter in a little zinc-lined shanty. There were 12 in the party and all but one, a lad of 12 years, were killed. When they were discovered their bodies and limbs were twisted and tangled together “like a nest of snakes.” It is the greatest number ever known to have been killed by a single bolt of lightning.