The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-22
A Bolt Of the Deadly Fluid Descends q Pole
in the Menagerie and Prostrates
Over Two Score of People.
Four Men and Three Boys Killed and
Several Persons Seriously Injured.
Victims Of the Sheepshead Bay Train Wreck
Robbed-Judge Quimby's Body and Sew
eral thousand Dollars Missing.
LIGHTNING STRIKES A CIRCUS.

Seven Persons Killed and Several Seriously
Hurt In - Wisconsin Town.
RIVER FALLS. Wis. June 21.-A terrific
thunderstorm ragged in this vioinity this
afternoon. Rain fell in sheets and great
floods of water formed almost in an instant
in the streets. Ringling's CIRCUS was Civ
ing an exhibition in the edge of grove
about q quarter of a mile from the center
of the town. The circus proper had just
finished it's performance. and as the concert
was about to begin . number Of people who
did not care to attend the latter were
making their way through the menaRerie
tent. when bolt OF lightning struck one
of the tent poles and moro than fifty peo-
pie were prostrated. Seven were killed in
stantly, o few seriously injured and the
remainder are now regalning the normal
use Of their limbs. which had been tenn.
porarlly paralyzed by the shock.
The scene Of the constern alton which
followed when the survivors realized the
extent of the fatality surpassed descrip-
tion, when men and women surged to.
ward the scene, and 10 was only by the ex-
ercise of rare presence of mind on the part
of Messrs, Ringing and their employ es
that q serious and probably total STAN pede
was averted. Tho Rlnglings did every
thing possible to alleviate the suffering Of
and animal attendants We'd with ono
another In their attentions to the
wounded. Stretched on the ground were
four men and three boys, ell dead. Their
names follow:
o. A. DEAN, married. Kinnikinnick township.
EUGENE REYNOLDS, unmarried, carpenter
FOurteen-year-old son of Curtis Aldridge.
j. A. GLENDENNING, married, town clerk Of
Oak Grove.
CLARK MAPEs. married. farmer of Clifton
township.
Twelve-year-old son of Wallace Smith.
Twelve-year-0ld son Of j. A. Giendenning.
Mrs. Glendenning and another son ere
seriously injured. Patrick Collins, @
farmer. unmarried. was seriously injured
and Is now at the Gladstone Hotel. Two
strangers. supposed to be railroad graders,
are also at the hotel badly injured. Jay T..
Loueck. sr.. proprietor of the Gladstone
House, was passing through the tent with
the shock came. Mr.. Loueck and family
fell to the ground. but mono of them was
seriously injured. Mrs. Loueck's arm wes
hurt by man who was killed fsllin 2
against her.
The bodies of the dead were taken to the
Village enRinehOuse. Some of them were
badly scOrched. but the majority OF them
presented no external evidence of the
shock. Death was absolutely instantane.
Gus in ali cases except that Of young Dean.
Six mon carried the paralyzed form of q
man named Louis Rosse. whose face and
breast were terribly burned and whose
lower extremities were paralyzed. At q
late hour he had recovered consciousness.
With great difficulty he managed to tell
that his relatives live at or near Sprin Q
Valley, Mimi. While be is seriously burned
and his lower limbs at present benumbed,
he is not fatally injured. Another badly
injured young man is William B. l.. Horne,
aged eighteen, whose parents live at Nor.
man, 0. I. Mrs. Glendennine has recov.
cred consciousness. but the fact of her hus-
bands and sons deaths has been kept
from her. None OF the show people was
inlured.