The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-30
SPORT OF THE LIGHTNING.
ECCENTRIC THUNDERBOLTS IN THE
LAND OF STEADY HABITS.
EiectrifyinE n Dog - Smashing Church
Pewa-BiR Trees Knocked into Spllnt-
era-A Woman's Arms Tattooed,n

| EiectrifyinE Dog - Smashing Church
Pewa-BiE Trees Knocked into Splln Z
ers-A WomRn's Arms TRttooed.o
| MTDDLETowN. juno 29.-Connectlcut thun-
| derbots continue TO do eccentric tricks. When
n bolt hits anything 1t seems to explode like
dynamite pencilllng the gloom OF night with
! jets OF parti-colOred fame and very little is
left OF the object struck. Three lightning
shafts ut New Preston the other day knocked
down big trees before the houses OF Jano
Mallory Charles Hoffman, and L. A. Tomln-
son at about the same moment Still another
made the telephone poles at the railroad station
dance like puppets on a string. NTH electric
shot made bull'seye on the New Preston stone
church on the hill. lifted the roof kicked the
plastering down. and Knocked the prim dignity
OF i've or six pews into hoterodoX mass. At
about the same time a bolt hit Abel Turrell's
house in Kent Hollow, and missing the people
therein; electrified the house dog, which stood
mOilonless minute rs II petriiled, his hair on
cnd. The stone church on the hill had been
hit three times before.
A. Somers hall moved part Of tho crop and
pelfed moro than hundred chickens to DEATH
ono big poultry raiser had every chicken
Killed but two: another lost %, in the same
house In Durham. slid down the stone CHM
ney. without moving q stone. and gated out
h bsd he into W Wh
hall way across the floor. Several mantel
ornaments were shivered and picture Waa
face. downward on the floor. Mrs. Hull was
not hurt, but jennie Hull was slightly shocked.
For an instant. she said. everything swan in a
red sea before her vision. 1t Is singular that
no one can find where the fluid shot out Of the
Hull house or out Of the stone church at New
Preston.
At East HAMPTON Slasher Cahill was stand
ing near his Kitchen stove. his hands behind
his back. musinE, while an elemental uproar
ragged about his house, and suddenly he started
Tor his bedroom, Then. his back being turned.
ling down the chimney, boted through tho
stoveripe and stove out into the room and In
wicked humor picked up the pipe and hurled
fairly dissolved. as il the day OF wrath had
saw the stove 'Sqsted and a shower o. ashes,
SCOT, and stove lids Rush over the old kitchen.
The chimney was shattered from top to granite
roots; b9t two children sleeping in room
>, AT Liberty Mills holt shivered big oak at
I. b, Morris,s residence, and threw pieces OF
sne ss io e sds ~ me- wa"
90 TO bed. was picked up and flung into the
bel He was not badly hurt. The lamp on tho
Kitchen table was, unset and the flame
toon were turned bottom side upward by
the fluid, which played lot Of other queer
pranks In the house and outbuildinGs At East
GreenTlch H. l., at about the same time.
bolt hit Mrs. Eva Matteson on the LETT shout
der and burned brown furrow an inch wide
along her arm T. tho wrist; Then. apparently.
one small track going on TO the base OF the
little and the other 10 the index finger. The
strange, electric tattoo mark was distinctly
Visible. looking like rough genealogical tree
for several days. Mrs. Matteson was not seri-
ously injured.
At Ashford lightning struck tho ConRrega.
to the ground loss s2200 1t was one OF the
Oldest churches in Connecticut