Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1918 — LIGHTNING KILLS HOG IN RENSSELAER [ARTICLE]

LIGHTNING KILLS HOG IN RENSSELAER

Lightning struck the electric light wires at the home of Leslie Clark, following the wires into the residence, where it shattered the fuse boxes, putting all, the ( lights out of commission. Z A night light was burning in the bath room, and the current passed through the globe, making small holes but not shattering the globe. From the house the current followed the wires to the barn and garage, where it blew off the switch boxes and shattered a feed box underneath. Fortunately his automobile, which always stood when in the garage within a foot of the feed box, was not in the garage at the time and thus escaped damage. Further investigation disclosed that a 250pound sow that was sleeping in a small building twenty-five feet from the barn, was killed instantly, but how the lightning traveled that far from the barn without showing any further trace of its passage, is a mystery. Two other hogs were sup 7 posed to be sleeping at the side of the one that was killed, but they were not irfjured.