Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1911 — Queer Freak of Lightning. [ARTICLE]

Queer Freak of Lightning.

Mansfield Center. Conn.— A bolt of lightning threw Itself into the Up pocket of Joseph. Barrow, a farmer, aa be was sitting In tbs kitchen of his home here. The bolt came Into the house via tbe stove pipe and was sttraded to Barrow** Up pocket by the presence there of an Iron monkey, wrench and a big jackknife It passed down his leg. burning him severely, and then careened over the floor, upsetting a tub of water and splitting a huge chopping block, tn Barrow's pocket tbe end of tbs wrench and the blade of (be knife were fueed into a iftH4 pieoa of steoL