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the toes. The other streak led 10
che same way to and down the left
leg to the toes.
As soon as Mrs. Frey was able to
speak, she told her husband that she
bad been sitting in one corner of
the kitchen, holding the baby, when
she suddenly felt a great shock, and
that was all she remembered. She
had her shoes on at the time. The
electric fluid which Frey had seen
had evidently struck Mrs. Frey after
it entered the house at the corner,
separated, and passed down each
side of her body, tearing off her
shoes, and leaving the marks of the
passage as described. No marks
were found on the baby, which had
been hurled across the room.
On looking for further traces OF
the electric current, Frey found that
it had passed through the floor into
the cellar, where it. had burned the
iron hoops off a vinegar barrel and
made hole in the bottoms of three
milk pans.
A bolt struck the house of William
Oadel, a quarter of mile from
Frey's. 1t came down the side of
the chimney, burling the bricks in
every direction, and pulyerizing
many to fine powder. 1t followed
the chimney into the garnet of the
house, ran along the garnet floor to a
partition, when it went through the
floor, half of it on one side of parti-
ton wall on the story below and half
Oh the other side. The half that
was on the left side of the wall jump.
ed into the room when half way
down, setting bed on fire, tearing
the baseboards away on all sides OF
the room, and then passing through
the floor again to the kitchen, where
| it knocked servant senSeless, broke
a table to splinters, set fire to split
bottom chair, and then passed down
into the cellar.
The part of the fluid that went
down the right side of the partition
up stairs entered a bedroom where
one OF Cadets sons was lying sick
in bed. 1t splintered the footboard
of the bed, ran along the floor, burn
ing the carpet as it went, returned
to the partition, passing down into
/ it, knocked it entirely away between
the dining room and the kitchen,
and disappeared through the floor
into the cellar. With the exception
Of the servant girl, no one in the
house was injured, and although
there were seven persons in the din.
ing room aud two besides the girl in
the kitchen. Mrs. Oadel ran up
stairs to her sick son, and found the
carpet on fire.
The invalid was uninjured. The
fire had hardly been extinguished
when the bouse was struck the sec
ond time, the bolt passing through
the roof and entering the sick mans
room. 1t knocked the headboard of
the bed to pieces, and ran along the
four sides of the room, and, uniting
again on one side, where it passed
through the floor, splintered the cas-
ing from window in the room be.
low, and tore the clapboards off the
side OF the house for several feet,
spending its force against cherry
tree, to which it jumped from the
house. splitting its trunk as If it had
been done with an axe.
The servant whom the first stroke
of lightning rendered unconscious
had not been restored when the
house, was struck the second time,
but she came to without anything
having been done to restore her, i'm
mediately after the house was struck
the second time. Every person in
the house, except the servant and
the invalid, was made deatbly sick
by the second stroke, some of them
suffering with distressing nausea, at.
tended by a strong sulphurous taste
for hours afterward. The invalid
was not affected in any way by the
find, although he declared that a
fame the size of lamp flame rested
on his forehead while the current
was flashing about his bed, and that
from it thousand jets and sparks
issued and seemed to envelope his
head. No fire resulted from the
| lightning, except the burning of the
carpet in the invalid's room, but the
damage to the property will require
the almost entire rebuilding of the
! house.
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