The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1900-09-01
LIGHTNING
PLAYS HAVOC.
SEVERAL PERSONS STUN
NED in ELKTON.
Mrs. Frank Marshall, of Sylmar, Found
Dead With Her Neck Broken Her
Three Children Stunned Other DAM
age Wrought.

Cecil county was visited by another severe
anl disastrous electrical. storm last Monday
afternoon between the hours of four and
seven O'clock. Accompanying the storm
We're wind, rain, hail. vivid lightning and
heavy thunder. For some time the heavens
were kept almost constantly Illuminated with
electricity.
In Eikton, one OF The large smoke stacks
Of the pulp MIL was blown down. breaking
IN the roof, but luckily no one was injured.
Several persons wer" stunned in ElktOn bv
the lightning William Wright. son of Wm.
a. Wright, who Us employed in the Elkton
foundry. made Il miraculous escape from
being killed. During tho storm he was using
a mould"rs $ rammer, when bolt of lightning
struck tn" Instrument. breaking it in two.
Wright was Knocked down in the sand pile,
hut not seriously Injured. Among the other
persons NhO wrr" stunned ny the lightning
were, Chief o. puIic" George Biddle. Mrs.
William Ioph"r Harry D. Lee, Justus Dun
bar ana Arthur Birkhead. None Of them
wrr seriously Injured.
The electric light wires were blown down
IN ecv, ,ru different places ii Elkton and one
portion OF the town was without light all of
Monday night.
TIL" storm in tn" upper part of the county
TaS ns' quite severe doing considerable
damage to the fruit trees and corn crop.
Death ~ rmE STORM AT eYI.MAK.
At Sy.mar the storm aid is greatest
damage, striking tn" house Of Frank Marshall
and tearing the roof badly. Mrs. Matilda
Marshall. wife cf Frank Marshall. was in the
house at the lime Of the storm and went up
stairs to close tn" windows and was On the
stairway returning to the first floor when the
house WAS struck, and she fell headlong
down the steps. In the room below were her
three little children, daughter and two
sons. They we're also stunned by the shock
and for some time were unconscious. Walter
a boy Of eleven, was the first to recover con-
scioG-ue~s aud fastened to the barn to alarm
his father. Mr. Marshall and Walter then
returned to the house and found the other
two children, Mary, aged fourteen, and Row.
land, aged eight, lying on the floor.
Mr.. Marshall tried to revive his wife, but
being unable to do so, hurried to a neighbor's
and sent for DR.. Richardson. 1t was dis
covered before the physician arrived that
Mrs. Marshall was dead. The two children
had recovered consciousness also, but Mary's
sight was found to be injured. There were
no marks on the body Of Mrs. Marshall that
could have been made by the lightning, but
her neck was broken, and she was prob
ably shocked by the lightning and broke her
neck IN falling to the first floor. DR.. Rich
ardson thought that the optic nerve of the
child was temporarily paralyzed by the
binding flash OF the lightning and that she
will ultimately recover. The funeral of Mrs.
Marshall, took place Thursday, and was very
! largely attended
On Friday last, a steer was killed by light
ming in the barnyard on the farm Of John
Arrants in Elk Neck.
The residence OF Candy Balderston, al
| Colora, was struck by lightning on Sunday
night, but only slightly damaged.