The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-08-09
DRINKER CREEK LIGHTNING,
Some Freaks thnt Beat Anything or the
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Sort Yet Record.
eusouEHANNA. Aug. g." Nothing that light
ming ever does will surprise mo after what
experienced with little electric freak the
other day back on tho Drinker Greek road
said n. Sun Hall Of this county. Mr.. Halls
middle name was given him because he was
30 bright. His veracity has never been Quss-
toned. except by strangers. Those who know
him never question anything he says. because
it would b q wnste OF time. and time among
these rugged hills and deep-down valleys 10
worth AS much az IS cents q day. especially
during The hucklsberry season.
Il have heard OF fellows having their
monosraEs etcksG on The bottom OF their
feet by csprcIous strokes Of lightning.
and remember case down In Jersey some.
whore. whore lightning started itself In the
portrait business by printing . girls photo
graph on a plaque that hung on tho wall; but
those freaks are more amateur efforts COM
pared with what lightning can do when 1t has
such a field as the Drinker Creek region.
Il Was out after buckle bcrries three miles
from home. in company with n friend. We
turned our horse and carriage into tho woods.
unhitched the hors, ana tied him to O tree,
and wont of into the bu-h after berries We
had picked an hour or 80. when l noticed q
storm coming UP. l never saw the sky so
black. although there wasn't much thunder.
and only now and then o flash OF lightning.
"'Glsat Hooky! said I. 'We must hurry
back and hitch up and pull our OF this
80 We made double-auick time back 10
whore We had left our horse. My friend went
to get the horse. and got into tho buggy to
get the side curtains from under the seat and
put them on. My twelve.Iuart tin pail OF
huckleberries had set ON tho ground at the
side OF the wagon. While l was busy In the
buggy there came flash that seemed to mo to
make everything SO blazingly light and near by
instant Mason and Disons line and he Can ciH.
n'a bordor. But there was no time for enjoy
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isx ten hiss a Mh sss 81 'P pssfs
TIs srt BIZ II iron nsss tine
No comet ever sailed through sraco with
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fire had fastened itself TO tho iron OH tho
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uEu o. the electrical display all around mo
head was standing up like porcuplne quilts.
the ts SarSons IN sis tn
a,dn't ies by bot, but thought OF home
Tssnty s %ss au lex 1I ihan have been tell.
liz road o. nss p.sssd three miles
u m,ne Was going 10 atop. aud was sI afraid
t We nilHGt meet some one on the road and run
ior the BIZ, electric ball leil me ~ sliieniy as
It had i hlieheL 10 me, and. jumping to ono side
Of inc road, paused for . moment at Mater-
boiled Cd, and steamed like 4 !oakstte. but had
6is hor ;,, didn't ksoS but WIN. lie Iishs.
haa 80 hs
II covered the thres. pliies ia very short
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There STOOD MY friend, lied 10 tho iencs as The
tho ii 81. TTUd and
the horse was lollins In lazy snjoymsnt and 11
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hSI.s the Sar:.s Yors 2 i. e!'' were re- my my
fsId an 4 the horsss iron' Shoes tI weren't ~
on on his fest as II they had been glued there.
Well BY good deal OF manipulation got
my iris b, fpd the horse hack e. themssv:s
II. Horses sh s asu ID s 81 p az 81
went to look up nv pail Of usEleberrlss. The
VIZ. 81 pic ps'es ana on each plsts Is ' nice
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