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Show KILLED BY LIGHTNING AT CONEY ISLAND Bolt From the Sky Destroys Flvo Lives and Injures Nine Persons. Now York.--Durlng a thunderstorm of terrific intensity which passed over Now York' Sunday nftornoon flvo persons per-sons wero struck by lightning and instantly in-stantly killed and nlno wore seriously injured nt tho Parkway baths, Conoy Island. At tho same tlmo ono man was killed and thrco others prostrated at Gravoscnd Beach. Tho intenso heat of tho morning attracted at-tracted a great multitude to the shoro resorts, and lato in the afternoon when tho stdrm blow up from tha westward, the park and bench was thronged with bnthcrs and spectatora Tho rain descended in torrents -and hundreds of men, women and children sought shelter under tho big bath houso which Is elovated nbovo th sand on piles. Tho lightning was Incessant In-cessant and terrific thunder clapi shook tho bath houso to tho terror ot tho cijowd huddled together beneath it. A fow minutes boforo G o'clock n bolt struck tho flagstaff and grounded in tho vory thickest of tho crowd. Nearly fifty persons wero prostrated nnd tho crowd rushed out into tho storm. Thoso who had remained In tho water wero also panic stricken nnd ran in all directions, not daring to enter tho bath house, which appeared ap-peared to bo on flro. Ambulances woro summoned from all tho nearest hospitals hos-pitals and on their arrival, flvo per sons woro found dead and nlno unconscious uncon-scious under tho bath house Tho bodies of all wero scorched by tho electric fluid. Tho nlno Injured wero removed to a hospital, where it was said that somo probably would die. Many persons less seriously hurt wero taken homo by friends. A slight flro in tho bath house was quickly extinguished extin-guished by tho rain. |