Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-03-08
ANTICS OF LIGHTNING
SOME or ITS QUEER FREAKS IN
PENNSYLVANIA AND OHIO.

Among the Sheep-In Big Oil Valley.
was once driving over the Martic hills,
in the lower part of this county, with my
wife and baby, flying from thunderstorm
that was coming up rapidly in the valley.
but only did not escape from the storm, |
but ran right into another one equally |
heavy on the very summit of the ridge |
When the two storms travelling in opposite /
directions met directly over our heads, |
streaks and balls of fire began playing |
around like the splitting and exploding off
shoots of a miscellaneous collection of |
Fourth of July pyrotechnics. Lightning |
danced and flashed on every bit of metal |
there was in my horses harness, whirled |
around with the tires on all four wheels
and ran about and zigzagged everywhere
about the buggy frame, until we were lit
orally sitting in a fiery chariot drawn by a
horse incased in flaming harness.
Neither myself, my wife nor child suffered
the slightest physical injury or inconven-
fence from that awful play of electricity
about us, and the horse seemed to be inn
proved by it, but the nervous strain on us
all was terrible. That extraordinary eiec-
trical disturbance lasted at least quarter
of an hour.
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sort of an experience with lightning that
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