Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-07-31
TERRIFIC LIGHTNING.
GREAT STORM AT MT. meossGoR
Three People Frustrated Gen. JACK
500 Unconscious tor Twenty Min
utss Telegraph Wires Oo~n.

Mg. Mcs5akaoa. Jalg B-At 90 this
svsning terrific storla CT lightning ran
alonx the telegraph wires which are strung
aDdeF the arcE~ay running from the Hotel
bainoral to the FaiifOad station. The arch
~ag Dassea IN froat u the Grant cottage,
WHICH 10 10 feet distant. Gen. Jackson, Of
r. Niagara. and Col ~ Butler Beck, Com
panG A. fifth Artillery Governors
Island, we're EalSIn. - the depot,
and ssrs directly front Of the
cottage shen thes ~ere Knocked ssnselsss 10
The plsnk hoonng. Mrs Fox. OF Phila
delphl8 .toppsng a. Congress Park Place,
at Saratoga, <as walking near them. She
Nas also znoekrd unconscious Gen Jack
.on renamed unconscious for twenty min
ute-. Or. Doaxias sas immediately sum
Honsd from tIe hotel dining room where
ne bad gone for dinner Several soldiers and
other people IA 0thsr portions Of the noun
tains Nere thFOW9 dOEn, but were only
shaken az little. The greatest excitement
prevailed among the hotel guests. The
lightning Also passed along the wires sur
rounding ths dining room, aud blaekened
the walls. Gen. Jackson. ia falling, struck
and slightly cat hls head. he had only az
rived At t-s moan t'ii1sthis morning. 10 take
command Of the artillery battalion. part OF
Which have already arrived, and the rest OF
~hich are expected 10 night. Col. Beck and
Gen. Jackson aTc n0W CONSCIOUS. The extent
0f their injuries cannot yet De stated.
Mr.. Fox fully recovered. after pr0stratiOn
% kftcen minutes, and immediately pro-
ceedcd % saratoga Inquiry At the Grant
cottage elected the information that. though
the family had felt the shock, nothing ser
ious had been suffered.
At 10 o clock this morning Mrs. Grant
viewed the remains OF the General fbg the
hrst time since ms death.
The United Press correspondent dhscoy-
cred that one Of the principals employed
IN the embaiming process OF Gen Gd rants
body, was approached yesterday by the man
~ho said he was profound admirer bf the
iiin-trioos dead. and was prepared 20 offer a
hand-Ome thing fer a mementO OF hIin and
without more ado deliberately Offer4d his
listener A. large A fee A. he WOuld ask for
lock Of the Generals hair. Ii was
Indignantly refused when the man
speedily disappeared careful search
failed 70 discover bis identity. The man
from Saratoga at p. IN brought about one
hundred and hfty visitors, who INN ediately
viewed the remains, making about i've
hundred persons IN all who Saw the rehains
to-day II j. said that the public will DOT be
allowed to look upon them again until the
day of the funeral
At . o'clock this evening Dr. Douglks re-
ported thai Gen. Jackson was rapidly re4over-
ny from his shock. .thOugh he was still 4Ome-
what dszed Col. Beck Wa sitting u1 and
there Vas no danger OF serious results IN
either case. The family at the cottage were
alarmed when the shock came. 1hej dis
tinctiy felt the electric disturbance. but we're
only mOmentarily alarmed. All ele4raph
wires on the Mount were prOstrated bb the
storm. ana correspondents had to 20
20 Saratoga with their dispatches
BY special train Late IN the evening the
storm subsidized and the night IL clear and
mOonht. The guests are congratulatIng
themselves tha. the results 0f the lightning
wers no worse. Both the injured men are
doing we'll
Mrs. Sartoris and Mrs. Fred Grant were
with Mrs.. Grant when she viewed the face of
the General The bereaTed wife was per
sonally calm and did not give vent 10 the
deep emotion which she must have experienc-
ed Dr Newman Asserts that the packet which
Col. Grant placed within the pocket Of the
coat on the dead Generals body before the
coffin wa sealed. contained letter from
Mrs. Grant IN reply To one which the Gen
erai left for her % read after bis death. 10
also contained lock of her hair. Her letter
D. described AZ very pathetic aud closes with
the words Farewell until Ne meet again.
The ring placed on the Generals finger by
Col Grant after death was one " hich Mrs.
Grant gave him twenty years ago. II be
came rather small for him, and he had OF
late carried DO IN his poe ket- book.