The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1871-03-29

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through the mouth is q matter of
necessity. at least In part; but
though the detect in the construc.
ton of the breathing passages can
not be overcome by an effort of
the will, it may still mitigate the
evil.--Man,y yacturer and Builder.
How il Feels to be Struck by Light
ming.
George Mills writes as follows
to the Chicago Tribune:
On the evening of the 10th day
of July, 1870, I was struck by
lightning, under the following cir.
CT instances: / am q farmer, and
had gone TO the pasture, three.
fourths Of o mile from the house.
on horseback, to drive home the
cows. A heavy shower had inst
fallen, accompanied by much light.
ming and loud thunder, and a lit
tie rain was still falling-we would
say it was "sprinkling." While
riding throughthe Geld I discover.
ed O small cluster of cookie. burrs,
q noxious weed that infests many
farms in this section of the coun.
try. The cattle were feeding near
me. dismounted and held the
horse with one hand, and proceed
ed to pull up the burrs with the
other. While STOPPING to pull up
the last one, my hand grasped close
to the root, the horse standing with
his head partly over my STOPPING
body, afiash of lightning STRUCK
the horse, entering his head in ant
behind his left ear, tearing two
holes in the skin behind the ear
and though he was wet with the
rain, the hair was singed from his
head, neck, shoulders, and one
front leg to the ground +; he, OF
course, was instantly killed. A
small portion of the electric fluid
struck mo on the right temple,
singeing the laslies of the right eye
and slightly burning or scaldins
the face, rendering me uncon.
scious tor little time. The fol.
lowing were the sensations and
phenomena, as / observed and re
membered them First, I felt
myself enveloped in sheet of per.
fectly white light, accompanied
by sense of suffocation by heat
The light could be seen as well
through the back Of the head as
with the eyes, and appeared to ex
tend several feet on all sides of me
then l experienced a sense of dan.
ger and tried to escape injury from
my horse. Then followed q trou.
bled dream, in which | was haul.
ing a load of hay in company will,
another person, and, in spite OF all
the effort l MADE to avoid, the load
OF hay was about to fall on me
When, in the dream, l made a last
desperate effort to spring from un.
der the hay, l found myself stand.
ing on my feet. The first thing
observed was that the cattle, in
fright, were running from me, and
next, that ] stood in front of the
PROSTATE horse. Instantly, I CON-
pretended the situation, and lis.
tened to hear the thunder that
should have accompanied the light.
ming, but no thunder could be
heard. / felt no pain and no sensa.
tion, except mental exultation,
which lasted but a few seconds
At first thought the lightning had
struck near me, and had slightly
stunned myself and the horse
Then / observed the water on eve.
ry hair and the moisture in the
eyes, nostrils and mouth of the
horse to be boiling, having the ap.
pearance and making a noise like
fine drops of water on a hot iron,
which continued tor several sc
conds. This was a phenomenon |
never have heard OF, probably be.
cause a person near enough to see
it is most always rendered un-
conscious too long to make the OBJ
serva;i"n. Judging from the dis.
tance the cattle had run, was
probably, unconscious less than six
seconds.
Finding that the horse did not
breathe, l proceeded to pull off the
saddle and bride, and then | felt
a severe pain in my head, which
continued for several hours, fol
lowed by soreness, which seemed
to be in the substance of the brain,
with an inclination to inflammation,
but at the end Of a week no effects
of the lightning were iclt.