Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-06-26
Thunder, Lightning, Wind
and Rain Make Things
Very Lively.
STOCK WERE KILLED.
Forty-eight Arc Lights Fail
to Shine and the City
in Darkness.

The full extent of the damages
done by the storms of Saturday and
Sunday has not yet been determined,
though none seems to have been
very destructive to property.
Probably the greatest injury was
done to wheat standing in shocks in
fields. The windstorm of Saturday
uncapped great deal of wheat, and
as the rain came down in torrents it
was utterly impossible to do any
thing towards recapping until after
the exposed shocks had been thor
oughly saturated, which cannot fai
to more or less injure the crops of
those who happened to be in the
track of the wind. The rain was
very heavy, .85 inches falling Satur-
day.
The rain was general throughout
the county, and, barring the injury
to the wheat, was of great benefit to
the farmers. Tobacco plants were
in great need of rain, though there
were scarcely any plants to increase
the acreage. Corn in some sections
began to show need of rain also.
A great rain, wind and electric
storm struck the city Sunday morn
ing, and at II o'clock, just as the
ministers had begun their sermons,
the tripartite combination broke
loose in all its fury. The deep-toned
thunder, lurid flashes of lightning,
high wind and sheets water of at
tracted more attention than the mes
sages being delivered by the preach
ers. Some of them, however, nothing
daunted by the fury of the elements,
followed the preachers in their argu-
ments, while a few lost the min
ister's message altogether.
Rev. E. H. Bull, during the storm
in the morning. stated that HI was
preaching in a church once when the
building was struck by lightning,
but he didn't continue his discourse
afterwards. This was not. encour-
aging, but his congregation stayed
with him to the close of his 15-min-
ute sermon. Just after beginning
the sermon at night another storm
broke forth and people began leav-
ing. Mr.. Bull took the sense of the
people as to whether or not Re
should close the service. It was de-
cided to go on with the sermon.
During the sermon Sunday morn
ing the congregation at the Baptist
church were disturbed by a stroke
of lightning which seemed to have
struck something too near about for
peace Of mind. Several jumped to
their feet, but resumed their seats
when they realized nothing had
happened. The odor of sulphur was
more in evidence than the perfume
of violets, heliotrope, apple bios
SONS, etc
DR.. Fogartie, at the Ninth-street
Presbyterian church, did not let the
storms of the morning or evening
interfere with the deliverance of his
message to his people. He says he
usually breaches about 80 minutes.
and he generally breaches until he
gets through. He probably did not
know that he could not be heard all
over his large audience room, as one
of his members has told us.
During the storm Saturday night
mule belonging to C. H. Matthews,
west of Lafayette, was killed by
lightning.
Tom Bracy, of the same neighbor-
hood, also had horse killed by light
ming.
A mule in the vicinity of Scates'
mill was struck and killed by light
ming.
A bridge at Salubria was washed
from its abutments and carried
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