Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1903 — IT FOLLOWED HIM HOME. [ARTICLE]

IT FOLLOWED HIM HOME.

During the storm Wednesday night the lightning burned off an electric light wire at the crossing of Washington and Front streets, allowing the wire to drop to the street, and in driving over same on his return home from delivering express from the evening trains, W. S. Parks’ team struck the wire and the shock threw them to their knees, but they escaped without serious injury. On arriving home Mr. Parks shortly after was sitting under the electric light, reading, when the lightning which struck somewhere in that vicinity came in over the light wires and burued out the lights. It did no other damage except Mr. Parks found himself lying on the floor with the right side of his face numbed. Both instances were rather close calls, and if Billy wasn’t a pretty nice sort of a fellow we would think that this was a warning of divine providence for him to mend his ways. Had it been Abe or the “cowpuncher” its significance would have been unquestioned.