Show DEATH BY4IGHTNING Three Persons Are Killed in Chicago Chi-cago and a Number Injured THE GRANT MONUMENT STRUCK The Catastrophe the Result of n Severe Electrical trical JJtorm The Damage to the Monument Monu-ment Small Other Fatalities CHICAGO June 1GThree persons were killed two seriously injured and some forty more stunned by tho flash of lightning light-ning which struck the Grant monument at Lincoln park tonight The killed are LEWIS METER MRS SHELBV An UNKISOWN MAN The injured are Harry Phillips and Mrs Mamio Olson The catastrophe was the result of a severe electrical storm during which the people who congregated in the park took refuge in the vaults under the monument The storm began with a slight shower which rapidly developed into a SMALL HURRICANE accompaniud by a downpour of rain vivid flames of lightning and a terrific peal of thunder When the storm was at its height a blinding flash struch the statue I taking Its course directly through the little crowd underneath Everybody with tho exception of three men was thrown to the floor None of them however suffered a severer injury than stunning with the exception ex-ception of those named The lightning did not strike the bronze figure of Grant and the damage to tho monument can be covered by a few dollars |