Show NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH I The Strange and Terrible Freaks of Lightning Yesterday evening about 6 oclock the inhabitants of this city experienced one of the most terrific thunderstorms accompanied by wind and rain that ever visited this vicinity The course of the storm waswhel at its height from southwest to northeast The Corked lightning was powerful and one or two flashes was appalling The thunder was so loud as to almost strile people deaf for a time in fact it struck error to the hearts of all In on > 4 Iwo instances the freaks of he ligjl jg came nearly resulting fatally Mrs Hoist and her daughter the latter about fifteen years of ago were sitting in the kitchen of their residencein the southeast part of town a flash of lightning truck the south side of the house splintered the weatherboarding wea-therboarding pasted through the wall tearing off considerable plaster from the inside entered the kitchen where the two were bitting the ecttncity struck the young ady passing over most of ihe surface 101 her body knocking her almost insensible in-sensible and blistering her severely on several parts of her body Mrs Hoist was also benumbed and almost prostrated pros-trated The electric current then tore a strip from the clock shelf traveled over the face of a larj picture and breaking pieces from the frame then mde its exit leaving the inmate of the house more dead than alive Mrs Hoist has about recovered the young lady is f gradually reeovering from the shock and injuries recned from her terrible I visitor The election passed off quietly on Monday last There was no opposition ticket and 276 votes were cot for the Peoples nominees which is a little over half the number of registered voters of this precinct J B BmG AM CITY August 1885 |