The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-05-04
A TERRI FIG ThUN0Ea STORM.
THE EFFEtfs OF faE LIGHTNING.
Several Houses IBjured-NO Lives
Lost.


and t o'clock on Saturday morning
The flashes Of lightning were vivid,
and followed each other in quick sue
c%ession, the peals of thunder being
loud and startling. We have endeav-
ored to learn the results of the storm,
and so far have learned of the follow
ing
A new house, not yet completed,
and belonging to Mr.. Peter Elliott,
in Eiliott's Enlargement, was struck
by lightning and injured to some ex-
tent, but just how much, we were u
able to learn. A great many of the
shingles were torn of, and three or
four holes driven through the roof.
The house Of William Bedford, Jr.,
corner Of Gum and Seventh Street,
was struck, the electric current taking
effect in the chimney, damaging it con
~sid~rably. tearing off about ten feet
square of the shingling. The current
her followed down the chimney to
the ground and into the cellar. Mr..
Bedford, who had been awakened by
the storm, had arisen, and was sitting
by the fireplace, when the house was
struck. The clock on the mantel-
piece was thrown from its place, al
most to the middle of the room, and
when picked up it was found that the
hands on the dial plate indicated
twenty minutes past 3 o'clock. The
damage to the house will not fall
short of one hundred and fifty dollars.
A two story building on Ann
Street, between Fifth and Bond
Streets, belonging to i. Pearson, was
also struck, the current taking effect
in one corner of the building, splitting
and tearing away the planks, follow
ing the corner of the building down
to the ground, but doing no great
damage to the house.
A house belonging to William
Teamer, who works at Rocker &
Blount's foundry, and situate ia Sui
livantown, was struck by lightning.
The electric current took effect in the
chimney, then ran over the roof, tear.
ing off the shingles to the cornice. on
the north side. On the south side,
the current ran from the chimney
down a %rafter, tearing it to pieces,
breaking through the ceiling in two
places; thence t followed the gutter
to the porch, making a hole in the
about an inch and a half in
diameter, like a hole made by an
ounce ball from a musket. Thence it
followed down the gutter to the
porch, and thence to the ground,
striking an iron rake, which was torn
to peioes, and thence into the c@istern.
one was in the room at the time,
ard consequently no one was hurt.
Mr.. Antoine Hagar had just com
a new house on Eleventh street,
Lamasoo, and proposed to open a beer
garden on the premises shortly, to be
Paradise Garden" This
house was struck in two places, the
current taking effect in the chimney,
it followed to the ground, tear
ing away and d~isplaeing many of the
bricks, and then entering the ground.
AT the other place the current took
effect in the roof at the highest point,
following on down a rafter, tearing
ana shivering the shingles until it
reached the gutter, thence following
the gutter to the corner Of the build
ing, thence down the gutter to the
a gentleman who arrived in this
city from B0onville on Saturday, states
a short distance from Newburg,
a gum tree was struck. and literally
shivered to pieces. A buggy that was
standing under the tree was hurled
its place, and set in the road
some distance from the tree, nut ap-
parently uninjured.
William Bowers, who resides in
Scott Township, about six or ei2ht
from the city, says that a log
stable Of his was struck by lightning
about the same time in the morning.
of the logs were displaced and
knocked In, and a valuable mare, for
ne had refused $40, had her
hip broken so badly that she will be
Of no more service. Strange to say.
not a single person, as far as we were
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