The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-24

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 man was only mildly shocked. A far
 mer was kissing his wife good-by be-
 fore starting for the county fair when
 he was struck dead by bolt of light ming His Wifes hair was consumed by
 the same, but she was otherwise unin- jured, Three drunken farm hands re- turning from a dance, all arm-in-arm,
 in eastern Nebraska, were oyertaken by
 an electrical storm on the road. The
 man in the middle was killed by bolt
 His two companions were knocked
 senseless, but quickly recovered. They | found themselves completely sober when they came to.
 A letter carrier in Kansas City was
 handing woman servant letter at the basement door when a bolt of lightning
 struck between them, They were both l rendered unconscious by the shock, but l both were brought around all right. The letter was consumed. Two farm hands
 engaged in ploughing in 160-acre plot. | in South Dakota were killed by light ming within three minutes. Three young
 kittens playing in back yard in Inde-
 pendence, Mo, were struck by lightning. One of them was killed, the other two
 
 | Blitzen (which means lightning in our language) was struck and killed by a | bolt, Of two parrots in one cage one was killed and the other permanently blinded besides being rendered deaf and dumb. A gang of circus hands were trying to round up an escaped tiger in a Missouri town, when the tiger was struck dead by lightning, During a running race at an Illinois county fair, l in which eleven horses were competing for the purse, the winning horse was struck dead instantly after having won the race by a head on the wire None of the other horses, most of which were close up at the finish, was hurt at all. An Indiana fiddler was playing at | country dance, having seat on the porch for the sake of the coolness there of. His violin was knocked into kind- ling wood by bolt of lightning, while SC himself was only mildly shocked. A chicken hawk was struck dead while just In the act of sweeping upon a flock of hens on an Iowa farm. None of the hens was hurt. A locomotive en- gineer was struck dead while seated in his cab making a short freight run in
 
 shocked. A dozen girls in an Ohio sem mary were shocked by bolt of light
 ming while seated in the parlor. The same bolt killed one of the teachers at the other end of the building. A Ten nessee farmer was feeding his hogs, standing in the middle of the pen, when he was hit by bolt of lightning and instantly killed. The hogs were not in- jured at all. An elderly woman praying all alone in a little chapel in small Kentucky town was struck dead by lightning. The chapel was set on fire and consumed.
 A Memphis woman was curling her hair with curling irons when a bolt of lightning came through the window and knocked the curling irons out of her hand She was rendered uncon- scious. When She came to she found the curling irbns at the far end of the room. They were almost red hot and had burned a hole in the carpet where they rested. A bolt of lightning pene- trated cyclone cellar in Kansas in which a family of four had taken re- fuge, and all were killed. A captive | balloon. the largest ever manufactured was struck by lightning in Chicago about eight years ago and two of the aeronauts were killed. Circus tents have been hit by lightning bolts on nu- merous occasions, generally with a com parauvely small loss of life, considering the size of the assemblages under the | tents. A man who was struck by light | ming in western New York state while | walking through a forest had the out yt.,>- f.n &r,,- l.StI [. stamped In red on his back, but he was not seriously hurt. To all intents and | purposes the lightning branded him A pressman employed by job printing house In Omaha was struck by light ming and knocked into mass of ma ohinery, which mangled him to death, A gang of boys were playing ball on q field in an Ohio town when an electrical storm came up. The boy at the bat was knocked down by the shock of a bolt that struck near, but not seriously hurt. | The boy whowa catching was "taking them off the bat" right back of the boy at the bat, but he was not even shocked.
 A Russian oil steamer was struck three times in succession within seven on the Baltic Sea and was burned None of the crew was hurt. A | wheat ship on Lake Huron was struck | twice amidships, almost in the same spot, the bolts coming within three min utes of each other. The second bolt set | the ship on fire and she went down. A Washington girl living on ThirteenthN street near H was struck by lightning while sitting at a sewing machine a good many eyars ago. The machine was placed at low window and the girl was knocked out of the window. She was not seriously hurt. Another Wash ington woman was shocked by bolt of lightning while welding a pair of scis- sors. She found that the bolt had so dulled the scissors that they would not cut. A bolt of lightning struck a small house over in Falls Church, It con- pletly tore away partition separating two of the rooms, broke the rockers of an easy chair on which young woman was seated and made big gash in the floor in passing into the ground, None of the occupants of the house was so much as shocked. A man in Mississippi was cutting a chew of tobscco when l bolt of lightning struck his hands. They were so badly burned that they had to eb amputated. Two quarrymen were preparing fuse in Georgia mar ble quarry when lightning struck the ,harge and they were both blown to zsu D.