Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1879 — Electric Storms on Pike’s Peak. [ARTICLE]

Electric Storms on Pike’s Peak.

Remarkable electric storms are said to occur on the summit of Pike’s Peak. Little thunder accompanies them, but the whole mountain seems to be on fire and the top one sheet of flame. Electricity comes out of every rock, and darts here and there with indescribable radiance. An observer says that it played around him continuously, shot down his back, glanced out of his feet, and so completely filled him that he became charged like a Leyden jar. He could not retain his foothold; he bounded and rebounded from the rocks after the manner of an India-rubber ball; he

felt as though a powerful battery were throbbing through his frame; and,fearing coilsequences, he hurried into the signal station.