The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-16

in the Flanders district near East Hampton
into the cellar, going thence into a drain pip'
and the whole house was shattered-riveu wide
open. At the same moment the iuid killed four
cattle, seven sheep and three lambs for James
phly in the same nelghGorhooc, and one COW
among them being stately ash In j. g. Shep-
ard doufyatd.
Hail noited Somers for half an hour. and lay
In windows in the streets OF that village.
perrys siy plymouth Rock fowls were shot TO
ersd T WIZ the h1o eSS trees T am
BRANCHES blasted by lightning balls.
Miss, on Bristol avenue was smltten by bolt,
and Mrs. Grannss, who was sitting in the
kitchen; was knocked down, and was uncon-
were demolished Brick was Knocked out Of
the chimney I'M si IN simpson Han Milers fac,
P oof afb 6 dSz hHds G Hat On the
street was hit and the In mates shocked The
old brick house, built in, 1859, got q shock. too;
in Ellington A. ", Bedons Barn tS was sts set on
Air Oartcr's tobacco sheds in the same place
were struck. j. Mcdonald. the grocer OF Port
land, lost barn by an electric bolt. but the fire
In Wilimantic, while the electric' bolts
crossed and recrossed in the air, like flaming
a strange thing occurred. smtten by the ter
rife uproqr Mrs. Elmira Haskins. an invalid
anG died % heart Sseoe 6e and ex
citement having hastened her death.
Augustus Millers barn at Daleville was de-
Killed two hogs in The, cellar Of 9. Fosters barn
e. North ssTns fAon belt fi H the Gsp
West STAFFORD scared the. window curtains,
and knocked IN the roof of his barn. II killed a
SH IN the bern Haistone so smashed d. all the
breastipG the fearful downpour, said the light
through the air The whole sky seemed to be
sheet OF continuous pale blue, crinkling light
one, as if it enveoped one with winding sheet
In BralfoEd lightning hit the Lock and NAL
leRble Iron Works and shaved shingles off the
Episcopal Church root. James Leach OF Will
mantiG lost a COW by a thunderbolt on. the
mill Of the WiIlimantie Thread Works. A little
girl. Maud LOWS. was coming home with
Albert Bqrrow's cows from the quarry pasture,
when suddenly intense darkness shut in and
then It seemed she was surrounded by fire.
She chung to a saping until the shower Of
rarently none the worse for her experience;
but next morning one cheek was dlscolored
for several inches. A huge tree at ]. f. Hay
den residence was cut squarely In two in the
middle of the trunk.
AS a pleasure party was coming down a
struck the road dead ahead. frightening the
horses that dreT them IN a double carriage ta
were stunned and bruised.
Henry Hall OF Wallingford has just discov-
cred that lightning killed steer and young
heifer for him in his pasture.
In Newington a bolt smote house, knocked
all the inmates insensibe and one Of them lost
the hearing Of one ear. bolt ran down tho
chimney, Of John Chapmqn's house. in Hart
ford. and knocked the kitchen stove into a
mash. Pots. kettles stove lids, ashes and
kettle hit Mrs. Chapmans ankle. and she still
goes lame. An odor OF birthstone pervaded
the house
In one town Joel Boice saw big round bolt
burst over North uop Brook. and II. F. Hale saw
another explode in the main street Hundreds
OF bolts fell in country districts about the State
Palmer's saw mill at Noank was struck by
lightning and burned. The loss was $1,000.
with no insurance.