The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-10-22
IN A PELTIyG OF rs.
Thrilling Experience OF Two Hunters .
Pennsylvania Lake.

fennsyINauln Lake.
Sometimes l think haven't got over my
scare yet" said Fred Mullen. the gunmaker.
for every time-I think about the evening
spent on Rose Lake last summer. up In north
ern Pennsylvania. near the Steuben county
border. can feel shudder 60 through me.
One thing do know / will never take any
comfort again going out lacking for deer. l
was in camp with local hunter and fisher
man named Henry Nelson. Deer are getting
scnrce in that region. but one day in going to
tho outlet OF Rose Lake. on the shore OF which
We were camping. Nelson discovered the tracks
OF deer in the soft margin of the water. Tho
deer had been to the lake the night before
to drink and stamp among the lily pads. and
wemade up our minds to jack for it.
I'VE went out that very night. While we
were lying in our boat near the outlet which
WIS on the opposite side Of the lake from our
cabin. half a mile away. thunder storm.
which we had supposed was an hour away
from us yet. broke upon us with astonishing
suddcnness. and wo started back for camp.
The rain fell in sheets. and the thunder and
lightning were simply appalling. Before we
had gone hundred yards lightning struck In
eight different places around the lake and
eight big dead pine trees were abla2e. Tho
play OF electricity was 80 continuous that
ne lake was wrapped In an almost stondy
I
birch bark had been extingui.hed by the rain.
nh hS w6G nG s ht naa
The rain fell in such torrents that 1t was MI.
ing our boat. and its swamping with us would
have only been question al u me.
Almost Immediately following tho eighth
stroke Of lightning on the shore, a clap of
heads broke with report like a cannon. AMI
n ball OF fire shot out from the inky blackness
Of tn" clouds, and went swiftly down into tho
In IA far f II N n n 10 ~
followed in quick succession by two others.
aud each was ACCOMPANIED bya simultaneous
fash and the shooting into the lake OF hnlls
".Hoth Nelson and myself were terror:
h i0r mt But o OF
takin& in more We lent all our energies TO
tor OF u mile distant. The startling play Of
lightning continued. and we were guided BY it
on hs aF f" ia 'e ~ n had got w !" Rff
IL hundred yards OF the shanty, whcn was
near tho shore, when thore came another ter
that blinded and Ter 9 few seconds stunned US.
Whom we rcr.overed from our daaod condition
II bic tree at one end Of the shanty. and n reg
u4r III lar OF fire maj KIDD where the trco stood.
IN. TSss n@% If shallow a w" tS dna DS t6 ran
waited out into the lake NJ to our necks. be-
t S tha5 wS were s.sr tnIGt than amS5nE
mn hour before tho fury OF tho storm had
passed In that time lightning struck five
times within an area OF q hundred yards of our
shanty. and innumeIuble timoS ~ more dis
tani pace, and IN the lake. When We at last
wadGd asher" IL wa, al that either Of us
strung were we by the appalling scenes we
had witnessed and the dangers We had eS-
capped. We were 50 unDerved. in fact, that We
hr"ke camp early next day ana returned home
That deer is probably looking about Rose Lake
yet i 1t wasn't killed 10y some one of those
thunlerbolts that were hurled about SO pro-
miscuousy that fearful night"