People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1893 — Marked by Lightning. [ARTICLE]

Marked by Lightning.

A negro in Washington has the scorch of a lightning stroke on his body—a white streak that begins between the shoulders and runs down the left side. It is waving in form, like the leafless stalk of a vine. This mark, which he has worn for about thirty years, he received when he was sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm always a dangerous place at such a time. Though he waA stunned for a moment after beins struck, he suffered no lasting inconvenience from the shock. Another man who was struck while sitting beneath a tree, escaped mark or hurt, but the soles of both of his shoes were torn off and flung to a distance of several yards.