The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-08-23
.+Ducx ~ LIGHTNING.
Ruildinas Burned ano
Injured in Various PARIS
the Country.

Stamford, Conn, lug. The fres rs
byterian church splre was sIcucA W
Gohtning At 2:3O O'Clock TINS aIternoou,
md bv 4 O clock the whole ouilaine was
On FIRE. when the roof fell IN. eup,
nosed two men persisted 10 'ne Iii
William Brown, colored, was rescueu ~;
alive 10 an almost unreSogni ,S. -;
ton. The adjacent building, the req
dence of Roswell Hoyt: was also uesII TOY.
al. after most of the furnicure nso T"
ssved. The mayor te~legrapnea 70 Noa-
v.lk for help, and . steamer arrived n
time to do good work. me loss on the
church y e2s, 600. Roswell loss Is
$1,000.
rho straw fact Dry of b. ID. White. making
three holes in the roof, passIng down in.o
rhe o0ce aud stunning and oufhin2 oa'
Wallace, the b~ookkeeper: Llxni1it -
,l,, struck the residence OF UeorRe h'o-
,.rt,, damaging the building o oiis'e!-
Ing Mr.. Roberts back and b!acSeni9s us
iees and feet. He is badly hurt. Osher5
members of his family we're stunned anu
Iona Branch, dug. 7:-One of the
summer houses on the biuii' opposl'e
.Janch's Hotel, was struck o. lightning
during the storm this AFTERNOON oae
end Of the building was torn on ana lou
ner,ous who had sought shelter IN It we're
prossr.ted, one of them, Police Ofhcer
lf,hn Corners, being seriously lnJ ured-
r.. WAS unconscious for several hours
and il now in a critical condition.
Hurri.bmq, R:,. aug: "a latEe
h.rn owned by William Light, near thu
s;,v was struck by lightning this after
noon. and Was entirely destroyed with
;ts contents, including this years crops.
E,stou, Pa, Aug. = During . storm
mi, afternoon, which lasted an hour,
lightning struck and destroyed a barn on
he farm of John Ingham, IN Warren
county. New Jersey. The lightning also
struck and damaged a house at Esston.
Much damage was done to crops. In the
township and vicinity of Northampton,
.dioiuiur Easton. gullies from three to
ten feet deep were made in fields, and
he streets of the town were damaged to
the extent of several hundred dollars
The entire damage by the storm Is rough
" estimated at from $1,000 to 5000.
Scranton, Pa, Augu't Two terrific
thunder and rain storms visited this city
to. day. Trees were %uprooted and houses
unroofed. Many cellars Were Hooded.
Considerable damage was done TO ths
crops. During the storm this evening
the scaffoliing of the new Court House
was struck by lightning.
Troy, N. T., August Jesse Brown,
a coloreG man, wa. killed by lightning at
Waterford this afternoon while he was
standing in a hen-rOost whittier he bad
taken refuge.
Mtddltown, N. r.. August 7.-Llght-
a:nx at noon to-day struck in three places
in this village. j. G.. Mullison's mouse
was slightly damaged, but the inmates
were not injured. Mrs. McCrea was
hooked senseless in her house by a ball
of fire which came down a lightning rod,
entering an open basement door. She
will recover. A barn on Illusions farm,
on the outskirts of the village, was barn
ed, with $1,000 worth of crops. The farm
house of e. H. Holkert, near State Hill,
six miles south Of Middletown, was set on
FIRE by lightning, which tore down through
the centre of the building. Seventeen pei
SONS we're in the house, including twelve
boarders from New York. No one was
hurt.