Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1898 — Lightning Strikes at Fair Oaks. [ARTICLE]

Lightning Strikes at Fair Oaks.

A family had a wonderfully narrow escape at Fair Oaks, Thursday night. During a storm which passed over that place, the lightning struck N. A. McKay’s house. It broke through a window into a sleeping room, tearing the casings from the windows. Two children were sleeping on the floor, not six feet from the window, and they were not hurt or even waked up. remarkable still was the fact thara bed in the same room, in which Mrs. McKay and two children were sleeping was torn to pieces, and none of the occupants hurt. The occupauts of the bed were sleeping on a feather tick, and to that fact their escape from injury is attributed by some. Probably because feathers are a good nonconductor of lightning.