Show KILLED BY LIGHTNING 1 AT CONEY ISLAND Bolt From the fl Sky Destroys FIve Lives and Injures Nine Persons of New terrific YorkDurlng a thunderstorm Intensity which passed over < New York Sunday afternoon five per sons were struck by lightning and In stantly killed and nIne Were seriously Injured at the Parkway baths Coney Island At the same tlmo one man Was killed and three others prostrated at Gravesend leach The Intense heat of the morning at I tracted a great multitude to tho shore resorts and lato In the afternoon when the storm blew up from tho westward the park and beach was thronged with bathers and spectators The rain descended in torrents and hundreds of men Women and children sought shelter under the big bath house which is elevated above tho sand on piles The lightning was Incessant In-cessant and terrific thunder claps shook the bath house to the terror ot the crowd huddled together beneath It A few minutes before 6 oclock a bolt struck the flagstaff and grounded in tho very thickest of the crowd Nearly fifty persons were prostrated and the crowd rushed out into tho storm Those who had remained In the water were also panic stricken and ran In all directions not daring to enter the bath house which ap peared to be on fire Ambulances were summoned from all the nearest hospitals hos-pitals and on their arrival five persons per-sons were found dead and nine unconscious uncon-scious under the bath house The bodies of all were scorched by tho olectrlc fluid The nIne Injured were removed to a hospital where It was said that some probably would die Many persons less seriously hurt wero taken home by friends A slight fire in the bath house was quickly extinguished extin-guished by the rain |