The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-11
RESULTS OF STORM
BoATHOUsE DAMAGED AND NEGRO
 BOY SHOCKED.
Greii Fountain Stunned and May Not Re- eoyer--Resort Left in Darkness and Performances Are
 Abandoned,

Greil Fountain. negro boy. struck by lightning at Electric Park. Roathouse ct Electric Park struck hy lishtnine and corner of ticket office torn away.
 One large transformer disabled and half of Park in darkness Show at Casino Theatre abandoned for the night
 Electric Park business suspended for the night.
 Operatives of Electric Park frightened into franzy.
 The foregoing is the record of the dam age wrought at Electric Park by the severe electric storm which passed over this section early last evening. The focus of the ter rific electric disturbances is believed tn have centered in the skies cverhanginR Montgomery
 Greii Fountain, a f5-year-old negro boy employed at the Park boat house. was struck by a bolt of lightning during the progress of the storm and for nearly two hours he was thought to be dead By im- mediate attention and diiiigent labor hc was finally resuscitated after sustaining an awful shock.
 Fountain was seated in chair leaning hack under the window of the box office as the boat house The storm drove him in from the lake and he sought refuge under the boat house. Business had aI- ready been suspended and the ticket sellers had left their posts and sought protection at the park office. Suddenly there was a vivid flash followed almost simultaneously by a deafening peal of thunder and the form of the young negro reeied to the floor Of the beat house. To all external appear anees he was iifaIess ssverai of the park emniovea rushed quickly to the assistance of the negro. Ills pulse was beating faintiy and he was taken from under ths shed Into the drenching rain where stimuiants were administered All remedies at hand semed to have failed to restore life in the boy until the park employees as last resort began shaking his form and working his arms to and fro. A
 spark of life was then seen and the work
 was continued until the negro was conn pieteiy revived
 In regafning consciousness. the negro at first appeard to have series of spasms and 1t required the strength of aAverai able
 bodied men 10 hold him A little later lie was able to walk and was carried to tbe city in car about o'clock. The negro was taken to a downtown drug
 store. and a physician was called at tAe' request of the park management. He was later taken to his home, Maggie Street. The physician thought the boy
 would recover However. he could not
 determine last night if the boy would sui- vfve the shock.
 The full force of the lightning struck s corner of the ticket office at tha boat house. completely demolishing the corner.
 The young woman who sells tickets was not
 la the office. Had she been there. sho might have been killed. bolt of lightning struck one of tho large transformers which supplies part of
 the thousands of lights which Illuminate
 Electric Park The fuse Of the apparatus
 was sburned out and half of the park. in-
 cluding the Casino Theatre circuit. was in
 darkness.
 About 10 o'clock. Manager Harry Green
 way of Electric Park concluded that bnsi-
 ness at the park would be suspended for
 the night and ali of the park employees were
 allowed to lave.
 The performanee of the wills Comedy
 Company at the Casino Theatre was aban-
 doned and the play house was closed for
 the nl&ht.
 When the storm broke over tho park, there were few people at the resort in addition to the employees. With the park in
 semi-darkness they crowded in the office
 for protection and, as soon as the storm
 had passed over, they left the resort.
 Manager Greenway said that the damage
 to park property was slight. The resort
 will resume business today.