The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-26

its mark in numerous pLlces on the
right side of his trunk. The bows
were also shocked, the, hat rim of
the younger being entirely torn off.
The team was Frustrated by the con-
cussion.
ANOTHER IOWA CASE.
On Saturday, July "a, q Mrs. Norris
and her daughter were each killed at
their home in the Floyd valley, Iowa.
The sad visitation occurred about 3
o'clock on Saturday afternoon. Mrs.
Norris and two daughters were the only
persons in the house at the time, MI.
Norris and a son being in Sioux city
that afternoon. The elder of the girls,
Miss Rowena, was up stairs at the time,
and the younger one, Emma, was with
her mother on the lower floor. Mrs.
Norris and Emma were standing at q
window when the fatal fash came, and
both were Frustrated. Emma, who is
but ten years of age, recovered from the
shock and attempted to raise her mother
to her feet, and then discovered that she
was rigid in death. The little girl then
called to her sister, but getting no reply
went up stairs In quest of her. At a
window Immediately over where the
mother and daughter had stood lay the
body of Rowena, nearly stripped of
clothing and with the remnants of her
garments on fire. The little girl had
presence of mind to procure water and
extinguish the flames, when she ran as
fast as she could to the nearest neigh
boz, MI. Beck, a distance of a mile, for
assistance. The lightning had passed in
at the top of the house and ran down
through the floor, doing but trifins
damage to the building.
LIGHTNING IN 81. LOUIS.
Thus far in the season, but one death
by lightning has occurred in st. Louis,
though buildings have been struck sew.
eral times. The circumstances of the
death of James Godfrey are still fresh
in the public mind. He was driving a
wagon at the time the shock occurred,
and was seen to fall backward from his
seat. The wagon was stopped and he
was found to be dead. The color of his
face had turned to purple, and there
was a little blood issuing from his left
ear. On being examined, it appeared
that there was q mark along the line of
the spinal column, as though it had
been scalded with hot water. Near the
lower extremity the skin had been
peeled off In q circle of aboutfou inches
wide.
ITALIAN LIGHTNING.
1t may not be out of place to close
this account of the exploits of lightning
for the season with a remarkable extract
from the London Echo, where a Rome
correspondent gives a description of the
singular phenomenon which occurred at
Velletri during the violent thunderstorm
of June %, and which is to be ranked
among the hitherto unexplained caprices
of nature. Just as the tempest was at
its height, and the rain torrential. six
persons taking shelter in a stable, which
was also occupied by three horses har-
messed to as many wine-carts, witnessed
the following extraordinary appearance :
A luminous mass rose from the thresh-
old of the door, entered the stable,
gllded from n cart to another, at
tracted, probably by those fringes of
bells characteristic of the Roman wine
carts, and then passed through an IRON
grating into the street. The bells rang,
the horses plunged, a woman and man
felt a certain giddiness of head but no
accident happened. Outside the stable,
a carpenter at his shop-door saw the
luminous mass (Which some of the wit
nesses compare to a fiery club as thick
as q mans ARM issue from the grating,
strike the pavement and disappear in a
dazzling flash. However, the meteor
visited several portions of the large
house with which the stable was n
nected, flew through large chambers,
b~lackening slightly q gilt cornice in one,
and scattering fragments of plaster in
another. Strangest of all, this extaaor-
binary visitor, after completely destroy
ing the new ceiling of a room leading
into q vast kitchen, danced round a
woman who was standing at o table.
She described the meteor as q fiery SER
pent, which she first saw standing up-
right on the floor, within two metres
distance of her. Then it flew toward
her, whirling several times around her
knees with great velocity. She felt a
sudden blow on the head and fell to the
ground /; but her husband, who saw the
whole apparition, on rushing toward
what he supposed was the corpse of his
hghtning-destroyed wife, found that she
was only stunned q little. On recoyer-
ing, she complained of pain in the scalp,
and her hair had become and remains
dry n rigid. After this last caprice,
the meteor disappeared, and from the
quantity of SCOT which fell from the
chimney, it is supposed to have found
vent In that direction. 1t was accom-
panied by a loud denonation, but
whether on its first appearance, or when
1t vanished, none can say.-St. Louis
Republican.