The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-10-31
Freaks Of Lightning.

At H~igginsville, Mo, lightning struck
the hen house Of }. Z. Fulkerson, and
Of his sixty inmates not a whole hen could
afterwsrd be found.
The poodle of Mrs. Walter Reynold, of
Orange. Mass. was kille by lightning as
it lay in bed with her, while the lady
herself was not harmed.
The eighteen months old child OF Mrs.
John Tucker, of Salem, Ga was at Its
mother. breast nursing when lightning
killed both mother and child.
An apple tree was perfectly portrayed OF
the window pane OF the house of Colonel
Armstrong, near Atlanta, Ga. before
which it stood when lightning struck it.
Lightning struck directly in front of a
team at Pascoag, X. l., killing one OF
the horses, while the other changed 10
color from a mahogany bay to a jet
| black.
Thirteen head of y~earling cattle were
killed by lightning at Oregon, Wisconsin,
while standing in the shelter of some
trees that were not even touch by the
fatal bolt.
The nursing infant of Mrs. Mary Stata-
white Of Winfred, Ca. was taken from
her breast and thrown across the room by
lightning without injury, but the mother
dropped dead.
At the house of George Busby, Of Fl
deity, I'll, lightning drew the nail upon
which his coat hung against the wall,
and showed a part of the coat sleeve into
The hole where the nail had been. SO that
the garment did not fall to the floor.
1t was Miss Willis first day at home
from school At Wilmington, and she wa>
watching a storm tom the back porch
wneu a thunderDolt struck her dead. She
vas the twelve year old daughter OF
Frank Willis, Oft ,een AIMS. Md.
While ii citizen of Rurty, Tenn. was
trundling "a wi.eaiparrow loaded with
urush there was IA flash OF lightning, and
shen the man returned to Consciousness
,nere was nothing to be found Of the bar
row but The the Of The wheel.
John McFad len a teamster of Omaha,
was on a loaI Of lumber when struck bv
lightning I.burned his hair, whI,kers
aud eyelashes fl, and marked his /. 1T
md stomach with h .ndrcds of sluall
'"lrne spots, tore off one lcy of his tous-
..rS, and one sh 9 aud stock ag. He was
dead when found.
On top of Locust mountain, in Penn
VA ania. was an Immense rock weight .
ninety tons. " hen lightning struck ii
the shock was felt for miles and the rock
Was shivered to atoms. In the dwelling,
ne r the foot of the mountain one woman
vas killed two men injured, and another
made insane.
A glass di h filled with shells was on a
autel shelf In the home Of joseph
Haynes, of South P~arSonsfielI. Me.
W hen lightning struck the building II
threw this dish across the room without
crackinr it or lo>inga shell, struck a gun,
tearing the stock into pieces. then passed
into the sitting-room where the family
were and took a square out Of the plaster
ing, but Injured no one
William Washington, of Hills Station;
Md, was rocking the cradle containing
he youngest of his three children. HIS
wife moving toward the fireplace with a
KIN fe, fork and plate IN her hands, when.
suddenly, both fell to the floor, the wife,
though dead. still rlutching the knife in
one hand aud holding u piece of the
broken: place in the other. Washington
Was stunned only. Lightning had enter
ed through the chimney.