The record-union., 1898-02-14

the same direction. Wind southeast in
the morning and southwest at night;
clouds ricving from the southeast.
September ., 1S9l-Telephones burn
ed out at Pleasanton and Livermore,
Alameda County.
June 8, 1S92-Oleta, Amador County,
lightning struck pine tree on the road
side nea, the village, killing eighteen
sheep ont OF a passing band.
September %, 1S92-Milton, Calaveras
County, lightning quite vivid, and was
a remarkab bic and unusual display for
this part of the country Nevada City,
Nevada County. September %, 1892,
was the severest and longest ever
known to the Oldest resident of this sec
ton. San Jose, Santa Clara County,
the storm of the 25th was the greatest
electrical display ever seen by the resi-
dents of this city: many young peo-
pie saw more lightning and heard more
thunder than they had ever before OBJ
served. Willows, Glenn County, on the
evening of the 25th the electric storm
in the Sierra Nevada mountains show
ed lightning of every kind, visible from
this town, from northeast along the
entire horizon to the southeast; some
tAiiNo LO4 iitliI an IlOuf tue
was continuous; only a few clouds were
visible from this point.
May II. 1S93.-A very Sharp thunder
storm passed over Pasadena, Los An
geles County, giving a dozen binding
flashes of lightning; one flash struck the
earth within 1,G00 feet of the observer
and was followed by a tremendous
crash. Coegrove, Los Angeles Coun-
ty. on the 18th, lightning vivid, sew
! eral wavy streaks observed in the dis
tant east, which extended horizontally
through the clouds at least fifteen to
twenty miles in length
May II. 1S93-Anderson. Shasta
County, this storm was the worst that
has ever passed over this section: the
center appeared to be over Redding do
ing some damage by striking the Pres
byterian Church spire and tearing it
away; some 200 yards away from the
church it struck the tree on which the
! RuggleS brothers were hanged There
We're three movements of clouds, one
passing along the Coast Range north
east, one along the foothills from the
east to the northwest, and one in the
center moving northward all forming
! over the town of Redding; balls of cleo
tricity dropped off the electric wires. 1t
was grand display, but without much
damage.
| November "a, 1S93.-Heavy thunder
storm at Hydesville Humboldt Coun-
ty, the lightning struck a tree about
! five miles east of this town and set it
Oh fire.
| December 81, 1S93-Severe thunder
storm passed over Pasadena, Los Ange-
les County, one bolt Of lightning striking
stable and destroying it, along with
seventy five tons Of hay.
/ July ., lS94.-At Gardnerville, Alpine
County, lightning struck barn. killing
one horse and stunning several persons
and the building was set on fire by the
lightning.
IN his review for July, 1896 Mr. Bar
wick says:
There We're heavy thunder and light
ming storms over all the mountain re-
gions of the State. with numerous cloud
bursts, and, singular to relate, these
cloudbursts appear to have occurred on
the day of the occurrence of the maxi
mum temperature over the great portion
OF the State, namely, on the 9th of July.
Thunder and lightning were reported
from several places along the coast,
which are rather unusual occurrences.
Generally speaking, the cloudbursts and
thunder and lightning storms occurred
during the prevalence of the long and
severe hot spell of July, from the 1st to
the Both. From all accounts this was
the most disastrous hot spell to the in
terror valleys of California since the un-
precedented hot wave of June and July,
1893, when horses died in great num-
bers. and even birds and wild animals
sUccumbed to the fierce rays Of the sun,
and several persons We're reported to
have died from the effects of the hot
wave"