Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1913 — BOLT SPLITS BED UNDER TWO [ARTICLE]

BOLT SPLITS BED UNDER TWO

Feather Mattress Saves Lives of Jersey Children When Lightning Strikes. New Brunswick. —A lightning bolt went through the roof of Henry Johnson's cottage, ran around a four-post bedstead in which his two children were lying on a feather mattress and split the bfed into a dozen pieces. The children were not touched. The bolt tore a big hole in the roof and in the floor. The bedstead collapsed and the children fell to the floor with the mattress. Johnson’B< cottage is on the Peter Cortelyou farm at Frauklin Park.