The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-06-25
TAGARIEs or rHUSDKRBoIrs
Queer LiEh'ninx Freak. In Pspnsyivs-,e
and eucerer Yet In Ohio.

county. with my wilo and hHby. lying from
thunder storm that was coming uprapldly In
the valley" said resident Of this city. but
only did not escape from the storm. but rar
right into another one equally ~ heavy on the
very summit oitho ldse. When the two storms.
travelling in opposite directions. met directlr
over our hcals. streaks and balls OF FIRE began
| playing around like the splitting and cxpIod-
| Ing oishJots OF miscellaneous collection
OF Fourth OF July pyrotcchnics. Lightning
danced and flashed on every bit OF metal there
was In my horses harness, whirled AROUND
with the tires on all four OF the wheels and
ran about and zigHaEgcd everywhere around
| the buggy frame. until we were literally sitting
| In n fiery chariot drawn by n horse encased
| in flaming harness. 1t was not only the sight
| OF this most extraordinary electrical display.
but the snapping. cracking. aud exploding Of
| tho lightning. like continuous volley Of
| musketry. that struck US dumb with terror.
| The poor horse was too much scared to run
away. the fire and noise seeming to have Just
the contrary effect upon him. and It was all
that could do to urge him forward. On
each side OF tho road trees were
being spintercd and shivered by thunderbolts
every few feet OF the way, and the terror Of
the crashing thunder. glare OF the forked
lightning. and noise made by the trees 40
they were riven 10y the bolts. was something
we reached house. we saw six COWS. seven
pigs. two horses. and eighteen sheep killed By
lightning in fields on both sides OF the road.
Neither myself my wife. or child suffered the
slightest physical injury or Inconvenience from
that awful play OF electricity about us, and the
horse seemed to be improved by 1t: but the
nervous strain on us all was terrible. That
extraordinary electrical disturbance lasted at
least quarter OF an hour
VI ILL H.
est sort OF an experience with lightning that
any one ever had or was ever likely to have.
but have Just come back from visit to Ohio
and l want to say that that experience OF mine
might have been the boss queer one up to this
ote ea hat ran
Take tho one. for instance. ut Bailyville. I
got to Bailyville at about noon one day. A
oy nd the
away or rolled to the southwark The sun had
Of tho ste storm my had passed awsy-for thandes
storms In that region are nearly always
most terrific thunder clap ever heard there or
elsewhere. SO close to the earth that the earth
trent as II from an earfhqpba H ana PRE-
lightning Of binding SHARPNESS broke from
the coudless no1nday sky The sgddsn
community with alarm. and It was. several
see What damage had A' been done By the
beE sahs
passafne The Sheep R had al hudsd Iorethe
h s Rsen s aS
came. When the. owner Of the sheep vent to
the field to see IL ANYTHING had befallen his
they had huddled 10 the storm. but out Of the
forty in the, flock eighteen were dead. Not one
That was strange enough. but tho eighteen
dead sheep were black sheep. all the others
shs the o It's ss
AROUND which the wool was burned away;
h, All, fern short distance from the village
bunch during the storm. and every outside
sheen was killed; twenty in ALL, and all white
cept one. which was pig black ram; The
storm ragged. and when the thunder clap came
t he ram was killed. no harm Detailing one Of
fleece had Seen n turned By the shock as White
az that OF any other sheep In the flock. That
a ths f
TO convince me that Ohio lightning knew .
lew tricks that Pennsylvania lightning hadn't
- Ny friend Simon Frey lives at Big Oh
Valley with his wife and seven weeks' old
pig thunder storm that was coming up caught
here. and was coming n down Tor pS Certain when
he drove into his barn. Simon stood In the
d b. for ns rain Sy
seemed to hit both chimneys at once. and
streak q fire ran from ono chimney along the
him ne met met another strsaI Of ire .hs,
flashing along the peak from tho other chim-
Ho the %S When spy oSdGe
vas an explosion like the DISCHARGE Of q can
ION. and fountain OF blush flame; that threw
sPo aDa Ia M a
Then all was over. the whole exhibition last
ng not more than three seconds.
Simon was only three rods away from the
house; but felt not the slightest effects Of the
errible shock. He ran to the house. not know
here. as 1t seemed impossible that his wife and
'!aby could have escaped death beneath that ter:
iter the first shock Of his fright was over 81:
non couldn't do anything else but lie down and
burst VIII the he'd
ouse., Mrs. Frey WAS sitting on the Kitchen
able her head resting against the wall. In
,ss Covered with -four from head to foot The
% q It's lungs. The bahys cradle was turned
PsIs IN r es e 'S 15%
onditlon. which was not for some time. she
nsr on das s e She
'as asleap in its cradle. Sud denly she he heard
,lt herself being lifted bodily from the floor.
hat was all she knew Of what had happened.
ie root she '' had not heard. There was
o sign oil. any damage inside the
ouse. but in eome strange way the
ghtning had lifted Mrs. Frey from the floor
nd pumped her down on the table. and had
I'm hed the cradle upside down. and carried
10 BABY across the room and dumped itun:
nrm ed IN the basket OF clothes. The mound
-four had been swept c ear from the table
nd scattered from head to foot over Mrs.
reg. The lump Of bread dough she was roll.
~ out was cut IN two IN the middle as II 1t
ad been done with knife. One half remain
on the tahle. the other half being wrapped
'mpletely around Mrs. Frey's hand. Aside
/ the rest Of the day. neither she nor the
aby suffered any III effects from their extra-
binary experience"