The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-25

Achley Hsa suss Get . Sob and mis- wire was
on Her WA Howe whom the child Was Rillea.

Achley Hhd Suss Get = Job ana His WIN WAS
on Her way Homo when the CHILD was Rniea.
Charlotte Aokley. tho three-months-oh child
who was killed by lightning on the st. Johns
Guild Floating Hospital in Fridays storm, lay
stretched on tho dining table in the Aokley
apartments yesterday morning, surrounded BY
a group Of sympathetic neighbors. The Ack-
leys had no money in the house and had been
unable to secure an undertaken to prepare tho
body for burial. At noon Dr.. Medwin Leale
called at tho house. He Ia the physician In
charge Of tho Floating Hospital. He'expectedsto
moot Coroner's Physician Weston at the house,
for DR.. Weston had been directed to hold an
autopsy ON the body. When DR.. Leale learned
that the Ackleys had no money to pay an un-
dertaker, he notified tho superintendent Of st.
Johns Guild, and tho superintendent said the
Guild would pay the funeral expenses. Half
an hour later an undertaken arrived at the
house and prepared the child's body for burial.
Tho Acklcys live in scantily furnished apart
ments on the third floor of u tenement at the
southwest corner Of Forty-ffth street and
Tenth avenue. The family consisted of the
father, mother, and thrco children. The eldest
Of the children, Willie, who is ID, earns 90 a
week in the employ Of u vender. Three months
ago the father, Charles Ackley, lost his situa-
ton. and the family was supported by tho
co. AhiAlko Va an eo1 NAAiO AitAhh tAub tiioI
could not get along on S5 a week, tho mother
and the two ~younses children were sent to st.
Johns Guild Seacide Home at New Dorp,
Staten Island. The boy Willie was able to sup
port his father and they kept house together.
On On sn aFI SIS,b the sv father ,i ESt a lob as Ma q car "a driver dn or
for the other half Of his family. He teIesraphed
situation. Then he borrowed a dollar from a
friend and purchased some provisions, intend
good supper for her. He cooked tho supper
and was waiting with his car hook in his hand,
intending to hurry away to work when she re-
turned. She entered tho house with her dead
How is Lottief'' was the first question the
father asked.
,,| "s6Gts dead" ;oHbsa the mother. ''sho was
Two persons in the employ of ST, Johns
Guild who accompanied Mrs. Ackley to her
home consoled the father. Then the mother
told her story.
u was sitting on tho upper dock of the hospi-
tai boat she said, when tho storm came up.
] had the baby in my arms. Suddenly the
flash OF lightning came, and / felt q shock pass
ing from my right arm TO my left. The baby's
head rested upon my right arm, with her feet
on my left arm. She was sleeping peacefully.
She had been in perfect health, and when tho
over and kissed the baby, thinking at the same
time how good it was that the baby was not
disturbed by the storm. When the lightning
struck and | felt the shock ! thought / had been
DR.. Ieale bending over me. / heard some one
say tho child had been killed, and then l heard
a woman remark that u child had been born
three feet, away. from where was sitting,
and that the mother of the newborn baby had
been shocked into insensibility. j must say
that the people In charge Of st; Johns Guild de,
every one about the floating hospital when the
lightning struck the boat