The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-17
THE LIGHTNING FLASH.
Incidents of Death and Destruction by
the ThunderboIt.

! Incidents of Death and Destruction by
the ThunderboIt.
| A farmer living in Midland township,
Ohio, was killed by lightning.
| Mrs. A. G. Small, of Provincetown,
Mass, was rendered insensible by
lightning. Her residence was damaged.
In Todd county, KY, Silas King was
instantly killed and Marion Lindsey so
injured that his recovery is doubtful.
A little girls face was distinctly
| photographed by lightning Jon "a win
dow pane in Laurel, Ohio, during q re-
cent thunderstorm.
| Henry Davis was killed while work
ing in a barn near Brown township,
Ohio. The barn was also burned by the
| lightning stroke.
While unhitching their team, Ashbel
| Wells and his son, of Fairview town
ship, Me-, were stunned by lightning,
and one of the horses was instantly
killed.
Near Lake View, W. T., large pine
tree was torn into fragments by light
| ming and every vestige of it entirely con-
sumed by the fire that resulted from the
stroke.
Marion Moseley, OF Henry county,
Ca, lost his total supply OF fall pork
and bacon by one stroke of lightning.
The hogs, ten in number, were under an
oak.
Lightning killed greyhound under
meath schoolhouse floor in Clara
county, KY, but left uninjured the
twenty-five children who were sitting
| at their desks.
A demolished house and the instant
death of a Mrs. Martin and her Two
children was the work of lightning
stroke at Priceville, ILL.,, at midnight.
Lightning destroyed the house of Job
Ennis, Mennonite, of Winnipeg, Mani
toba, killing Ennis. His wife expired
from the shock the next day.
Lightning struck the barn of Jacob
High, near West Jefferson, Ohio, kill
ing Henry Davis, who had taken refuge
there, and burning the building and its
contents.
Lightning cut queer antics at Jasper,
Mich. Itstruck the windmill of Nathan
Shumway, completely shattering the
stone pump, and, following outside,
killed two cattle.
Edward Sewer, of Murrayville, III.
was struck by lightning at Russel's
Pond, and instantly killed. His clothes
were torn from his body, and his shoes
| unroWn great distance.
A young man named Lyers, of Otta-
wa. was struck down bv lightning while
walking the streets during storm.
He recovered, but one side OF his face
was badly scorched, and part of his
clothing was burned.
1t was ten years ago when Mrs. Mes
bet, of Guilford, Ont, was struck by
lightning and thrown from the buggy in
which she was riding, but she survived
to be killed by another stroke during a
recent storm.
Two horses attached to buggy in
which were j. f. Haslam, wife, infant
and nurse, of Perry, Ga, were thrown
to the ground by a stroke of lightning,
but horses and inmates escaped miracul-
ously any positive injury.
In Geneva, n. Y, lightning struck
| horse in the mouth and passed through
his body, killing him instantly. The
groom, Edward Burke, who was sitting
near by, was made perfectly insane, and
him."
A drunkard, of Nashville, Tenn,
while wild with delirium, dug q grave
and lay down in it and died. His wife,
who was frantic ut the sight, called
On her way home she was struck dead
| by lightning bolt
The Reformed church, of Sharon, N
Y, was struck by lightning while the
| Sunday-school association were in ses-
sion in the church. No one was seri-
ously injured. The lightning struck the
steeple, followed the chimney and into
the stove, which were burst into atoms.
The first instance On record of the kill
ing of Il mule by lightning occurred at
Bard, Iowa. The bolt struck the barn
of j. III. Hartman in the roof at the
gable, made a hole four inches in diam
eter through the hay down into the
stables, instantly killing three horses
and a mule. The flash did not set the
hay or woodwork on fire.
During heavy thunder-shower at
Mechanic Falls, Me-, boy was sitting
at the foot of balm of gilead tree
which was struck by lightning. The
tree was spllntered, but the boy was
apparently uninjured. Soon after the
accident he was seized with nausea, and
on physician removing the little fell
lows clothes there was found upon his
stomach and chest an imprint resem-
bling the trunk of the tree, its branches
and buds rs perfect as could be drawn
by the hands of q skilled artist.