Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-25
FREAKS OF THE LIGHTNING.

At HigRinsville, Mo-, lightning struck
the hen house of j. z. Fulkerson. and OF
Its sixty inmates not a whole hen could
afterward be found.
The poodle of Mrs. Walter Reynolds
OF Orange, Mass, was killed by light
ming 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 mothers breast nursing when
lightning killed both the mother and
child.
An apple tree was perfectly portrayed
on the window pane OF the house OF
| Colonel Armstrong, near Atlanta, Ga.,
before which il stood when lightning
struck II.
Eugene T.. Brown. of katonah, was
Grading oats when lightning killed him.
Not a scar wa on the body, yet his bat
With the rim ripped of was twelve feet
away.
The nursing iafant of Mrs. Mary Sat
awhile, of Winfred, Ga, was taken
from her breast and thrown across the
room without injury, but the mother
dropped dead.
Lightning struck directly in front of
team at Pascoag, k. l., killing one of
the horses, while the other changed in
color from mahogany bay to Jet
black.
Thirteen head of yearline cattle were
killed by lightning at Oregon, Wis,
while standing in the shelter of some
trees that were not even touched by the
fatal bolt.
la Whitefield, Me-. Chas. Ware, his
wife and child, were in bed together.
Only Dir. Ware was killed, and the 9th
srs were not injured. A girl in an up
per chamber had her hair set on fire, but
sustained no other injury.
1t WAS Miss Willis's first day at home
from her school at Wilmington, and she
was watching a storm from the back
porch when a thunderbolt struck her
dead. She was the twelve year old
daughter of Frank Willis, of Queen
Anne's, Md.
While citizen of Rugby, Tenn, was
trundllng a wheelbarrow loaded with
brush, there was flash of lightning,
and, when the man returned to con-
sciousness, there WAS nothing to be
found of the harrow but the tire of the
wheel.
p AT the house Of George Busby, of Fl
deity, H., lightning drew the nail upon
which his coat hung against the wall,
and showed part of the coat sleeve
into the hole where the nail had been,
80 that the garment did not fall to the
floor.
John McFadden, a teamster of Oma-
ha, was on a load Of lumber when struck
by lightning. 1t burned his hair, eye
lashes and whiskers off. and marked his
breast and stomach with hundreds of
small buint spots, tore off one leg of his
trousers and one shoe and stocking. He
was dead when found.
On he top of Locust Mountain, in
Pennsylvania, was an immense rock
weighing ninety tons. When lightning
struck it the shock was felt for miles
and the rock was shivered to atoms.
In the dwellings near the foot of the
mountain one woman was killed, two
men injured and another made insane.
A glass dish filled with shells was on
a mantel shelf in the house of Joseph
Haynes, of South Parsonsfield, Maine.
When lightning struck the building it
threw this dish across the room without
cracking it or losing a shell, struck a
gun, tearing the stock into pieces, then
passed into the sitting room, where the
family we're assembled, and took a
square out of the plastering, but injured
no ono.
VIM. Washington, of Hills Station,
Md, was rocking the cradle containing
the youngest of his three children. His
wife was moving toward the fireplace
with knife, fork and plate III her
hands, when suddenly both fell to the
floor; the wife. though dead. still clutch
ing the knife in one hand and holding
a piece of the broken plate in the
other. Washington was only stunned.
lightning had entered through the
chimney.