Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1911 — LIGHTNING PLAYS PRANKS [ARTICLE]

LIGHTNING PLAYS PRANKS

Splinters Pole and Badly Shocks Widely Separated Men. South Bend, Ind., Sept. 29. —Lightning played a queer prank during a severe electrical storm here. A bolt struck a telephone pole and splintered it into pieces. The shock ran down the guiae wire and passed into a new house, where Clyde Johnson was working. He was knocked senseless, but ieviyed later. Two blocks away Efaner Webster, a mail carrjer, felt the shock pass through the handle of his umbrella and he was stunned.