Ogden Morning Examiner | 1909-06-20 | Page 8 | Children Struck by Lightning

STRUCK BY Dy LIGHTNING Sparta Ga June Tunc 19 While sixteen children who vIto attending a n Sun Sunday Sunda Sunday day da school picnic at Martin Springs near here lucre wore w rc standing under a tree yesterday to escape a n shower a bolt boltoC of oC lightning struck the tho tree antI and every ever child was isas rendered unconscious I When aid came tho the children wore were I lying Iring in a heap at tho the foot Coot of the tho tree treo and all were wore apparently apparent dead There horo were two doctors in tho the picnic party and on examination they the found Cound that not one of the children had been kill killed ed ei outright though six Ix of them wore were In such condition that their recovery Is hardly hard 1 possible 1105 Tho Iho other othel ten meanwhile rendered unconscious aro are I not considered In a dangerous condi condition lion ion t Examinations disclosed that on the bodies of oC nine of tho the children the tho tree had been perfectly photographed by b the tho electric bolt Tho The shoes had hall been bean torn from their thell feet and every overy piece picco of metal about them ther fused