The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-08-28
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
One Days Fatal Record i'm Va
riOus Parts of the Country.
Twelve Persons Frustrated and Seven
Instantly Killed,

MANY deaths have occurred this summer
through lightning, and hardly a day passes
but the telegraph records one or more fatality
from this cause. On the 21st the calamities
resulting from lightning strokes were unus-
ually heavy, as the following dispatches
from various localities will show:
A New Orleans dispatch says: A violent
thunder storm prevailed in New Orleans and
vicinity to-day, the lightning striking in sew
era places. One bolt hit the steepe of the
Catholic church of st. John the Baptist, in
this city, damaging the clock The storm
was far worse above the city. A large
force of harvest hands from New Orleans and
vicinity, who were harvesting the rice on the
plantation of Mr.. Norbert Loque, in St
Charles parish were driven in by the rain
Some of them sought refuge under an oak
tree, around which they sat in circle
waiting for the rain to pass away.
This oak is only about one thousand
feet from Mr.. Loque's dwelling. The
party had been camped under the tree but n
few minutes when a terrific bolt of lightning
was seen to strike it. When the reScuing
party reached the oak they found all the men
under it stretched out Five of the party
were found dead. The only survivor was
boy of fifteen. The dead We're Harrison
Scott, James Scott Julian Tonev, John w eb-
ster and Louis Chapman. They We're lying
i'll row around the oak, badly scorched and
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Henry Toney, son of one of the dead men,
was about ten feet away. He was found
unconscious, scorched about the face, and
with big lump on the side of his head He
wos unable to give any account of the acct
dent and was very badly and it is believed
fatally injured. The deceased men were all
FROM Kennerville, a suburb of New Orleans,
to which place the bodies were taken for
burial On the neighboring plantation of f.
st. Marten the lightning struck negro
cabin badly damaged it, knocked three of
the inmates unconscious and otherwise ill
jured them.
At Titusville. Penn, during heavy thun-
derstorm, lightning struck the home of Mrs.
Chambers on Brown street, passing through
the roof and killing her Instantly The hus-
band. on returning from work at q o'clock,
on entering the house found his wife
lying dead beside her bed her body hav
ing i'll the meantime turned black. 1t is
supposed Mrs Chambers was sitting on the
side of the bed engaged in nursing her two
months old baby for when found the baby
was lying in an unconscious state, while an
older child was in the cradle in the same
room crying hard The finding Of the baby
was the first intmaton Mr.. Chambers had
OF his bereavement. The shock of lightning
passed through the roof, running along an
old army rifle hanging on the wall, and
CHANGING off struck the lady.
During heavy storm. 7. j. Jeliff, station
agent of the Iloga railway at Canoe Camp
a few miles south of Elmira, n. ", was
struck and instantly killed 10y lightning He
was standing beneath the telegraph wire at
the time, and the planis of the platform be-
meath him We're shattered. The lightning
LETT no mark on the body whatever Barney
Whitaker, who was standing within two feet
of Jelitf, was uninjured.
An Erie PENN dispatch says: Erie was
visited to-day by another thunderstorm more
violent than that of last week. The resi-
denCe of the Rev. NJ Mover, of the Cross and
Crown Episcopal church, was struck and Mrs.
Meyer hurled from one room into another rem
dering her unconscious and inhicting serious
injuries upon her. The Erie City Boiler works
were struck, the gas pipes burst and lighted,
and the shop fired, but the fire was soon ex-
tiuguished. A number of tenement houses
and the telephone wires and poles were gen
orally greatly damaged