Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1896 — Lightning. [ARTICLE]

Lightning.

Electricians say that there is no safer place during a thunder storm than a trolley car. This is undoubtedly true. The wires and car pole make the best kind of lightning rods. Although the country is pretty well run over with electric cars now, we have yet to 1 hear of a case where any passenger has been injured by lightning.