The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-02
lightning Stroke FATAL
ELEVEN MEN AND BOYs INSTANTLY
KILLED ON NORTH SIDE
PIER, IN CHICAGO
CROWDED IN A TINY CABIN
The Victims of the Deadly HOLT Had
Left Their Fishing Lines to
Escape the Fury of
the storm.

CHICAGO, IlIJeJaly 1.-Crowded to-
getheF in little zinc lined snanty under
a north shore pier ten boys and young
men and one old man met instant death
by lightning today. They had left their
fish lines and sought shelter from the
fierce thunder storm that deluged the
northern part of the city about /
o'clock. o~
Ten minutes later their bodies lay
with twisted and tangled Limos like a.
nest Of snakes" as the man who found
them said.
There were twelve who sought shell
ter and just one escaped. Iweive-year-
old Willie Anderson was uninjured, but
he lay many. long minutes before ne
could be drawn out from under the heap
of dead bodies.
The dead are all from the families OF
comparatively poor people and comprised
a. party of men who were fishing and
seeking relief from the heat of me day,
joined by a number of boys VINO had
come to wade and swim on the beach
This is the list of the dead: George
Barbinett, IL years old; Mayer Jacobs,
45 years old; George PriHbs, Il years of
age; Frank Coosey, II years of age; Carl
Kruse, 18 years Of age; Edward Bloch,
20 years of age; unknown man, name
supposed to be Brodericks unknown man;
three unknown boys.
The scene Of the tragedy was a pier
just south Of Marquette terrace, and
few hundred feet from the water pump
ing station at foot Of Montrose boule-
ward. The storm was as violent visi-
tation as has ever been, experienced in
Chicago. The skies were filled with the
flashing glare of the lightning, and the
air rumbed steadily with thunder Half
a dozen houses, -outbufdings and trees
in the vicinity were struck, and almost
all Of the telephone wires burned out.
INTO A DEATH TRAP.
There were thirteen men and boys on
the pier at the time. They rushed for
the only available shelter and crowded
themselves in through the LILLE trap
door in the top of the cabin till they
were packed almost to q suffocating
point
Then came the thunder bolt. 1t was
the worst Of the storm. Watchers in
the pumping station saw the zigzag
lightning strike the water, as they
thought They did not know Of its fear
full work.
There was one small boy, however,
who saw the bolt and whose senses were
all alert despite his excitement. But for
him the dead might have laid wnere
they were for hours, and little Willie
Anderson might have been suffocated
under their bodies. Perry Keane, clad
in bathing trunks, and watching from
the water station, thought he heard a
scream as the bolt struck. Mindless of
the storm, he rushed across the beach.
At the pier he heard cry: Help, get
me OUT
He looked into the cabin and in dis
may saw the twisted bodies.
Young Keane crying, pulled at the
dead mems arms and legs 10 them
away. He saw Willie Anderson's mead
and part of his body, but he could not
pull him out, nor could he pull the heavy
bodies from on top of him. Then young
Keane telephoned to the police, VINO
succeeded, after a deal Of difficulty in
reviving young Anderson and recovering
she dead bodies Of the others.