The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-08-20

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Lightoing performed queer freaks ai
81. John, N B. Il shattered large
nuober Of telegraph poles TO atoms. cut
the connection 10 the telegraph ONCE,
aod sst the efice on fire. II knocked
down Albert Nash. Who remained pow.
sSlsss for over Ave minutes. but has
suffered no permanent harm.
Gerhard Schimpfgen. Of Milwaukee.
Wis.,. wss instantly killed by lightning
recently. while Patrick Collins, of Jo-
list. Ill. had bis home torn to pieces.
timbers aid brick being thrown forty
feet in the air. several OF the inmates
we're thrown violently about. and &C.
vsrsly injured. and Collins aud hia
hired man killed.
The house Of A ] Snow, At Collin
wood, Ohio. was struck by ixhtning
recently aud set on ire The faid
struck the kitchen chimney. ard on
reaching the root tore open . space oil
ten fest. One bait went through the
ceiling into tho kitchen. severely ,njar.
ing Mra Snsv. The fire was speedily
extioguished.
When Mics Neil BAssstt. one of the
young ladies employed in ths Roches-
ter Tsleph.sos Exchange, opened the
circuit ~ answer = call. there came a
binding hssh Of lightuipg. and Miss
Rsssett lay inssnsit.e upon the floor.
bhs suffered ssvsrsly for some time and
tempasanly lost her eyssight. but has
now fully recovered.
Andrew Fielding met With surprise
- he wss seated on . reaper on his
farm near Upton. Iud. Both Of hi.
horses suddenly tell dead after light>
ming fash. Frsncis Bowen. Sho vas
bind;ng wheat about two hundred feet
in the rear. vas struck aud killed. Four
miles FROM this scene Q child was also
killed during th. came storm.
4 Mr.. Wait Of Berlin. Ohio. was
feeding bis horses when thnnderbolt
catered the open door at one end of the
stAbls. passed rapidly behind the
horses. ard went A,t the don 1T the
other end. buIyi & itself iu tho earth.
No damage whatever MAS done to
either barn or horses. but Mr. Wait was
blinded aud stunned for few minutes.
Ludwig Shredder. Of Chicago. had .
queer experience during thuIder
storm. The lightning struck his frame
cottage. passed through the bed in
which he MAS sleeping. bnt simply
burned hi. Iiu,bs sni feet. It also en-
tered the barn If q w Hiller. killed
his hars-. and then passed out at an
open ~indos leaving the barn unin.
jurcd
In Cleveland. Ohio. a lab0rer b.
LAngs. was walking along Herald street
during severe storm sud was struck
BY lightning. The right side of bis
hsad Apd chest was toro away. After
kill;Dg I4angs. the fuid cros.ei the
ssssst cad shattsring o large tree. dis
appeared into space. Lsnge was 80
ysars Of age and le-yes wife ard i've
children.
When crossing tue platform from
the b.ggags 70 psssenger car. on the
II b q railroad At Linwood. Ala, 10.
seph Mason. the baggage master, was
struck By lightning. All efforts ct re-
suscitatisn failed. In his csp . hole
about two inches in length was found.
Along bis body to both feet vas . red
streak. aud all slons this streak the
skin was blistsred.
NJ. Kidd. Of Ottswa. Ont. was over.
taken by storm while returning from
. funeral. and took shelter in the house
Of widow named 6prouls. The se-
verify Of the storm rendering his horse
unasnagesbls. young 6pouls. . Led Of
Is, ma from the Aolsa, end, telnng the
anioal to . telegraph pole. vas in the
act Of tying il. when there wss blind
ing fash. and the lsd fell dead.
When lightning struck the house Of
Prank B Highbcs. ofSouth BsnA, Ind.
although no 0oe vss injured, il made .
total wreck Of ssssything IN the bu,ld-
lng. The stoves. vess broken. the
pipes were hurst sad battared out Of
shape. the be ! on vhieh 4ss. Hughes.
. cousin. "a -i'-psng. badly splintersd,
. castor kn 4k.i from table. = cnp-
board 6lIei With c.nnsd fruit burst
opea end ths ILLS OF the cans knocked
od, the carpet torn up ssd shrcds of it
soAttsred syssyuhsrr; in short, almost
everything In the house suffered dan
age. while the chimney was knocked
down. asd Q big hols Knocked in the
ealing ef ons sf the roons. The
oashes Of the north windows we're
broken and fragments found several
yardh away. Evssy pisos Of metal In
IT, hooss. ewes 70 the steel ribs In Mrs
HtGAbosis eDeoss, was 20 heavily
chareDd - 70 b convestsd into mag
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