Lightning Hits Bleachers

Two Dead and a Score Injured at Lead, S.D.

Lead, S.D., July 20.—Two killed and a score injured, one probably fatally, was the sudden termination of a baseball game in Lead between teams of Deadwood and this city. A stroke of lightning during the fifth inning shot among the spectators, leaving death and injury in its wake. The killed are Weston Fry of Lead, aged nineteen years, and Tom Halverson of Lead, aged fourteen years. Abe Oliver of Lead was probably fatally injured.

The storm broke without warning. The two boys who were killed were standing under a big umbrella in the bleachers, the bolt striking squarely on top of the shade. Nearly every one in the grounds felt the shock, many were badly stunned and fully a score rendered unconscious.

--The Dakota Huronite, Huron, South Dakota, July 29, 1909, page 2.