Daily globe., 1879-05-13
Il III HEiTY STORM.
What Kahn aad Lightning Did Last Night
\ Man Struck and u Lady Shocked.

What Eain aad Lightning Did Last Night
n Man Struck and IL Lady Shocked.
The storm of last night was brilliant in its
electrical display. The downfall of rain, del
uge at times, accompanied by frequent
flashes of lightning followed by the rumblng
of thunder Some of the explosions were
SO sharp that invountarily the ejaculation
was made that struck somewhere
near hcre.' In fact the common place utter
anCe was fully cOrroborated in two instances.
ARCHIBALD 4 sCHURNElER's s MILL.
About $50 o'clock the city trembled from a
sharp detonating report which made the very
air culver with the electrical discharge. Soon
after the quiet followed somehow the report
became current that Archibald Il Schurmeicr's
mill had been struck. No flames indicated
such catastrophe, but nevertheless a GLOBE
reporter lodged between the rain drops over
to the mill to investigate. Sure enough the
injured. The lightning came in by the
telephone III the mill office and
descending by the ground
wire dlvergcd aud knocked William j. Hustled
senseless.
The window frame through which the tele-
phone wires scorched in fanciful
feathery figures, the wire completely melted up
to the telephone. The ground connection was
made by wire to steam heating pipe
leading to the eng inc room, six stories below
Third street, the river bank. At the time
the bolt struck Hustled was firing up in the
eng inc room. He was knocked backwards
distance of eight feet The engineer witness
cd his fall and found him unconscious. As
sistauce was called, and Hustled was recalled
to consciousness by a bOuntiful
application of water. Hustled says he didn't
know what struck him. and when seen by a
GLOBE reporter, half an hour aftsr the acc-
dent, said he felt dumb and inert, but other
at l(a
home in a carriage. No injury happened, nor
any damage to the building except a slight
scorching along the walls wherever the tele-
phone wires were in contact.
MRS. T. A. REM INJURED. ,.
About II clock the rumor was quite preva-
lent that Mrs. REM, wife of the city treasurer,
had been severely injured by lightning. INQUIRY
revealed that about the same time the first ac-
cident occurred. Mrs. REM, too, had been pros
trated. She was at home with her family,
and when the report sounded, she fell from
her chair in an unconscious state. DIR. Stamm
was summoned when he arrived at Mr.. REM s
residence, he found Mrs. REM conscious, en-
joying the power of speech, rational,
but unable to command the movement
of her limbs On examination the
doctor found no reason to Judge tha t she
had been struck by lightning, nor were there
any Indications of discharge about the prems-
cs. Her condition was judged to have arisen
from the shock caused by fright at the seem
ing nearness Of the report. 1t is expected that
the lady will recover her usual spirits in a
few days. su,
LANDSLIDE. t..e.
Whether lightning had anything to do with
it is not known. But a land slide happened or
Bench street, just below Grote's, at the same
time the two mentioned accidents occurred
The slide happened just below the first house
beyond Grote's.
The dcluging rain dislodged ten to fifteen
tons of earth and rock from the bluff auc
threw it to the raiload below. The track II
front of the St. Paul g. Sioux City freigh
house was completely covered for a distance o
twenty feet with the debris. Capt
Clark gave notice to the RAILROAD
authorities and danger lights were
put cut. A gang of men were put at work t,
remove the dirt, etc., at midnight SO tn,
whole track would be cleared for travel before
tho first incoming train whistled out its ad
vance.