Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1899 — Pranks of the Lightning. [ARTICLE]

Pranks of the Lightning.

While bathing in the surf near Seabreeze, Fla., a girl was killed by lightning. A Maine hunter claims to have once had his pipe lighted by a flash of lightning. Lightning knocked a child from its mother’s arms during a storm at Ocilla, Georgia. A woman telephone operator was struck by lightning while at work in the Berlin exchange. Lightning struck two trees at Franklin, 111., and then jumped to a wire fence two feet away, showing that the current sometimes deviates. Although lightning rods are not used as much as they were the weather bureau says they are of value. Half of the crew of the Sachem were disabled by a lightning stroke that struck the ship while on its way from Philadelphia to Tacoma. Curious wounds were made by lightningstrokes on residents of Berlin. None 6f the wounded has extensive burns; the wounds look as if caused by a charge of grain shot. The holes reach to the bone and are surrounded by a web of blue dnA >Hrh lines.