Show BOLT 0 F mOM R 0 SKY S SMITES nRONG Two Hundred People Struck by Lightning One Being Killed and a Score Injured Crowd Was Assembled at Race Track In Utah Town Watching a Race When the Bolt Came Without a Moments Notice RIchfield Utah Llflitnlne from a clear sky hurled 200 persons to the ground killing one Tuesday afternoon after-noon Another will probably die Twentysix more arc Injured several of them badly The bolt foil in the midst of 2600 people all crowded close to the rail of the new race track They were watching the beginning of the days third trotting race It came without warning A terfillc report startled the thousands Half dazed by its intensity inten-sity those who had escaped the shock caught their scattered senses to see maddened horses dashing In all directions direc-tions through the crowd while 200 men and women lay prostrate The bolt came from a broad strip of clear sky between two approaching cloud masses Its explosion when It struck on a wagon was the first warning warn-ing of its presence The ground had been wet by light showers and tho electricity scattered over the grass In blue flames that Knocked down stunned and burned victims on all sides It ripped wagon wheels and seats and shattered the track fence The crowd had gathered at the new fair grounds They had come from many surrounding points in honor of Utah Commercial Travelers day Thoraces Tho-races were the main thing of interest and they had crowd d q8emtt track all along whose circuit they were strung When the bolt struck some thought dynamite had exploded Others thought It was a giant firecracker A rush toward the place followed as soon as people recovered their senses Horses were running madly some dragging carriages and others loose Women and children shrieked with terror Tho area over which tho shock was felt extended about 100 yards each way A number of wagons and carriages car-riages In this area were broken by tho forco of the lightning Mrs A D nnsmussen was In a surrey sur-rey with her family of children when the bolt fell The horse ran away and the vehicle was overturned Mrs Rasmussen was badly I Injured as was a little girl The mothers nose was cut off H S Lyle a horseman who had just lined up his sulky for the His start had a strange experience animal was dazed for several seconds as was the driver Both clime to about the same time and tho horse bolted at once Still half dazed the driver held grimly to the reins and guided the horse around the track By the time his wits fully came to him ho had the brute under control The new fair grounds the scene of miles the accident are about three ram town After the first shock sustained by the throng assistance was given to tho injured It vas found that Altus Dean of Richfield 19 years of age was dead Among the most seriously Injured are Dwight Bean Hlchlield will probably prob-ably die clothes nil torn off Mrs A B Williams badly shocked and burned about head and back bad Mrs Harry E Mills Richfield burned about left side I shocked and ly Mrs A O nasmussen llicmield cut lIT n080 Ine Clark Uichflehl shocked hurtled CJor head IlUSfflTMUflnMn Internal Child of Mrs HasDlussell ly I hurt Richfield hair W E Annum uiirnVd off badly shocked Glenwoocl hair Archie Anderson from head badly shocked burned badlyj All tho above are btlll confined to their beds wore about a score of others TherE wu less seriously Injuiod |