Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1895 — Queer Pranks of Lightning. [ARTICLE]

Queer Pranks of Lightning.

The Paducah (Ky.) News says that lightning played some queer pranks ia that good town the other day: “It wrapped itself around the spire of the First Presbyterian Church like a snake, and took off the slate covering in strips. It burned the hair from one side of Mrs. M. J..Williams’ bead, on Clay street, yet did not injure the woman nor the child which she held in her arms at the time. It knocked Abe Stone, colored, senseless, as be sat in a stable loft, and when he recovered be found that it had removed nearly all his clothes. It jerked an umbrella from a young man’s hand and left his arm paralyzed for an hour. It scared a negro into convulsions at the People’s Electric Company’s plant on Second street The erratic bolts performed all sorts of funny freaks, in fact.