Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1902 — A NARROW ESCAPE. [ARTICLE]

A NARROW ESCAPE.

Mrs. Ross Grant Is Knocked Insensible by a Stroke of Lightning. Mrs. Ross Grant and a number of others had a narrow escape from death by lightning last Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Robinson, living near the stock farm, had given a dinner party to Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Warner, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Warner, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wood, Mr. and Mrs. C. M.' Blue and Mr. and Mtb. Ross Grant. When the storm came up all the party were in one room, with the exception of Mr. Blue, who was in the front room reading. Mrs. Grant was leaning with her arm against the telephone, when lightning struck a pole some distance from the house and a ball of fire followed the wire into the house, coming out of the receiver. The bolt struck Mrs. Grant on the shoulder. She dropped insensible to the floor but recovered far enough to request to be carried out doors, where she was rolled in the grass until she -regained her senses. She complained of being in great pain from burning sensations in the limbs. She was carried inside

and put to bed, and was able to be brought home the next morning, where she is now in bed recovering from her injuries. Her shoulder was burned considerably, and one of her feet is black and swollen. The lightning first struck a telephone pole, ran along the wire and badly damaged five poles, shattering two of them into splinters and throwing the pieces many feet. The telephone was torn into pieces and the paper on the walls was cracked in places from the force of the current.