Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1917 — Damage From Lightning Small. [ARTICLE]

Damage From Lightning Small.

The damage to property from lightning is so small that it is aluiost negligible, in comparison to the damage by fire of other origin. That .modern building construction makes the danger from lightning much less in the cities than it is in the. country is the contention of the Electrical Review, which says that the metallic roofs and the steel that enters largely into the construction' of buildings in the cities seem to rob the lightning of most of its destructive power, even if buildings are struck.