The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-07-06
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Ths Chicago papers give Interesting ae-
oonnts of what they, as swell as We, call
strange storm, last Saturday, revealing pc
culisr natural phenomena, and dampening
the Joy at the great Sanitary Fair, then in
session. They say The fiery element flashed
and shot hither and thithsr all over
this devoted city. On the North
aud South division street cars, all was
Wild excitement. The electric fluid took to
fhe rails, and ran up and down the track
regardless of stations, and far ahead of
time. Conductors became frantic; psssen-
gers looked despRiringly around for an ay-
enue Of escape. Without the crowded cars
poured the descending river on the fsll
ran the element they dreaded so much
more. The scene became exciting. Some
rushed from the cars into the street, and
we're drenched to the skin in moment;
Others, more reckless of consequences,
watched the jzigzsg lightnings plsy upon
the Iaiia This tT4hil----T-L=--lIJ fISis----I
we're IN their elementsj the practical peO-
pie, who saw no beauty in the Threatening
lightning, had left the cars, and were en-
jbying free baths in the streets. LocOmo.
tion was an impossibiliLy; the horses would
not go. The lightning played ahead of
them on the rails was novelty which they
preferred TO stand stilliRnd watch. Many
persons have expressed the opinion that the
rails of the North and East division rail
roads we're greatly injured by the fiery
element which smbracel them during the
When, the storm came on, people had
inst begun 70 flock into the fair. Floral
Hall Wss well filled with promenaders when
the rain commenced. Through every crack
and seam ran the blaekened water, falling
upOR white frocks and dainty bonnets 1t /
would not wash of; for the tar of the roof
was an ingredient of the dirty drags. A
general rush was mado for Union Hall, |
which fortunately proved lit q more wa
ter-tight. The gas in Floral Hall ceAsed to |
burn on many of the fixtures. Lookout |
Mountain Was q VeritRble cascade. The |
DOOR eagles hOvered together in gloomy res |
ignation, and the crows stood upon one leg |
and stretched up their long necks as if be- |
seeching the weather clerk to desist. The |
Ggraveled walks" we're worse than Mansss |
sss in mud. But All evils have their |
advantages. The shrubbery began TO |
kOk up and revive; the fountains appear |
ed more cheerlul and dashed their waters |
higher; the restaurant looked like q camp |
meeting tent during an unholy shower; |
strawberries were made uDpAlatsble in
moment, and ice cream became sour from |
the electricity in the atmosphere, which
'sours milk according - belief Of house.
wives. Destruction reigned everywhere
in Floral Hall.
The storm, whose q eaks we have mar
rated, returned to the attack at eleven |
O'clock The thunder was terrific; the |
lightning intensely vivid. At times the
whole city was Rglow with light, then
would follow the deafening reports of
thunder. The wrath of fstern Jove"
seemed TO be descending upon mortals. Iu
this attack the elements did moro dsmsge |
than during the lrst shower. The street |
Gals stopped Tuu ming, so that the course Of |
the lightning upon the rails was uninter-
rupted.
! With the telegraph wires the lightning |
played strange freaks. The apparatus at |
the AmoFy Police Station was demolished |
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70 strange reception, and permitted to
witness some wonderful phenomena. The
numerous wires reaching into the cupols
were SO many guides or tracks by which
the lightning esssyed to enter it. But the
beautiful little mechanical invention called
the lightning arrester," small and insig-
nifoAnt as it appears, arrested the fluid IN
its rapid course, and hurled it back upon
the wires with the most rapid conclusions.
In this manner the operators spent the
night, surrounded by all that was grand
and sublime in nature.