Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1877 — Indoor Safety in a Thunder-Storm. [ARTICLE]

Indoor Safety in a Thunder-Storm.

Mr. Latimer Clark, the eminent electrician, gives the following useful hints as to the safest position people can occupy during a thunder-storm : A person reclining on a sofa or bed at a distance from the walls of the room can scarcely suffer injury, even in a house struck by lightning, but a most absolute security is obtained by lying on an iron or brass bedstead of the form knowu as the Arp.?

bian bedstead, in which the head is surmounted by an iron erection supporting the curtains. A person lying or sleeping within such a bedstead could not possibly receive any direct injury from lightning, even if the house were to be demolished, as his bedstead forms the most complete lightning-protector which could be well devised.