Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 173, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1915 — Lightning Begins on Time. [ARTICLE]

Lightning Begins on Time.

A bolt%>f lightning, shooting through an 18-inch stone wall at the home of William Reese, near Valley Forge, Pa., tore a hole in the building as large as a man’s head, struck a grandfather’s clock in a room where the family was gathered and threw the glass door of the clock across the room, shattering it into a thousand pieces over the head of the farmer, who was lying on a couch. The bolt, stunning his oldest daughter, rendering the younger daughter deaf and shocking all in the room, discharged itself through the lower portion of the house, and a dog which lay on the floor was killed. The worka es the clock were damaged and the 1 wood splintered.