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  • "Circus Horror at River Falls, Seven Persons Were Kille

    08/04/2019 12:12:45 PM PDT · by robowombat · 25 replies
    CIRCUS HORROR AT RIVER FALLS, SEVEN PERSONS WERE KILLED And Thirty or Forty People Injured by Lightning While Attending the Afternoon Performance of the Ringling Circus From The Sun, Spring Valley, Wisconsin Friday, June 23, 1893 Page 1, Column 4 RIVER FALLS, WIS., June 21 [1893]—During a severe thunderstorm this afternoon at about four o’clock lightning struck the first center pole in the menagerie of Ringling Bros. Seven people were killed and quite a number injured, none of the latter fatally. The killed are: ALEX. O. DEAN, EUGENE REYNOLDS, CHARLES SMITH, CLARK MAPES, — ALDRIDGE, JAMES GLENDENNING, LESLIE GLENDENNING. The...