Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-09-13

keEBon. It seemed by aghe ana
sound to be Ill about him-even
seemed to be in his buggy and gave
his fingers and hands and arms .
singing sensation e if he had bold
Of q battery. W. b. Zeiders in Pat.
terson felt much ike Scholl on the
subject. The bolt, the lightning
and feeling seemed to be everywhere.
% Washington street . mile from
where Scholl was, the experience OF
people was much the sans and the
telephone wires ratified as If boys
were striking them With clubs. It
is believed . bolt ran down the
ground wire on the pole opposite Ed.
Bartley's stable. The incandescent
lamps were burnt out in many places.
and the cracking kissing noise
in the houses scared people of weak
nerves, but amidst It all people were
not hurt and little or no damage was
done to property.
A death by lightning is recorded
BY the Mount Joy Herald thus
Doctor Andrew Martin was struck BY
and instantly killed in the
cellar of, his home, during the storm
on Saturday evening.
Doctor Martin lived with his Sis
ter Mrs. Fanny Lindemuth on the
cemetery road at the edge OF town.
The Doctor always assisted hrs Sis
ter with such work about the house
as he could do, and as was his usual
custom preceded her with q lamp,
while she carried something's left ov-
er from supper to the cellar.
They were standing only . few
feet apart when there came q blind
ing flash and the doctor sank slowly
to the ground. The lamp dropped
between his legs and was extinguish-
ed in the fall. His hair and eye
brows seemed to be ablaze and Mrs.
Lindemuth brushed her hand over
his head to extinguish the flames.
She did not at first realize that her
brother was dead as she had not felt
the slightest effect of the stroke. She
hurriedly got another lamp and des'
ended to the cellar again. Horror
stricken where she found her brother
corpse, she hurried to the home of
Mre, Leonard Frank, her nearest
neighbor, and they returned to the
house where other neighbors and
friends soon followed.
The current entered at the chin.
ney, which it followed to the stove
pipe and the stove, the doors of which
were thrown open, and through one
of the stove feet to the foof. II
passed through the floor between 9
crevice in the boards to the cellar
where the DR.. and his sister were,
and did not even singe the carpet
Doctor Martin was standing directly
under the stove and the current
struck him on the head and passed
along one side of his body to hii
shoee, but it is nowhere any evidence
that it entered the ground. His fac
aud one side of his body were ecar
red as If with q hot iron. Deatl
must have been instantaneous.
There was q wreck OF q freigh
train going west, at doom on Satur
day, at Port Royal. The axle brok
under the fifth freightcar back of tn
engine, and before the train stoppe'
twelve cars were piled, crushed; All
tumbled over the four tracks at tha
place, thus completely obstructing q
J freight and travel by rail. Durin
the number of hours that were n
quired to clear the wreck from th
tracks. this community became still
When everything 10 running thel
is Q constant rumbling noise
the air caused by the constant rul
ming of cars. A dead stiffness pr
, vailed several hours on Saturday.
. is not said that the road in the vicil
itS of the tower at Port Royal
hoodoced, but accidents do take plac
A few years ago freight train loads
). with q nice herd Of hornless catt
8 from the west, bound for Liverpot
a England, was wrecked at or near Il
9 same place. The wreck of the ira
n upset the tower, and the telepraI
:, operator ran for his life, as he nev
: ran before and as he has not sin
n run. and as he hopes never to run
n the future. Colonel Wilson Crane
n deceased, was the railroad official
\, charge, the wreck righting Gre,
!, were under his supervision. He "
j. making an effort to keep the catt
from straying away, and was telliI
q the men what to do. His positi'
q was on stop Of Q freight car that h'
a was caught in the crush. The anims
h were without horns, bat they cou
n bump hard, and some of tho m
4 had been bumped and were begi
a ming to be little shy of close Out
% ters with the steers. The stee
n ran to q certain place slong the Ii
:. for more freedom, Cramer detect
a the break, and he noticed that Jol
n Fasick, a veteran railroader, was t
4 nearest man, and he shouted job
;s "run and head them, run" "Yet
a shouted Fasick 1 am running. b
they run faster than I can" IN
you are a good runner, you Can be
Them" Il, l." answered Fasick,
n Delemater had run half as well
s the black q; S;.moolies," he would ha
l. won the election" There was
J. laugh all round and the steers we
o on with the stampede.
~ MALIsTERvILLE NEWS.
q. Mrs. Joseph Kaufman who b
,e been sick for some time, died
d Sabbath morning. Funeral on We
d nesday afternoon. Interment at c
,el Lutheran cemetery.
is Jacob Eichman and wife, of Ca