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Show STRUCK BY FIRE FROM HEAVEN. Exoitinj- Experience of .Family Summer. Ing on Long Iiliind. New Yokk. Aug. 15.-Tl,e family of SUllnian Dperry, of N0. 334 Wythe avenue. Brooklyn, who are summering at Merrick, L. I., had an exciting experience ex-perience during a storm the other afternoon. after-noon. Superintendent Edward Chapped, Chap-ped, of tho New York Ferry company, who is the father of Mrs. Sperry, yesterday yes-terday related the story of the family's miraculous escape from death. "My daughter expected her husband by the train that would reach Hempstead Hemp-stead at 2:30 o'clock," said Mr. Chap-pcll. Chap-pcll. Besides herself in her carriage and her husband wero their four children. chil-dren. After proceeding some distance toward their destination, black clouds gathered overhead, and the next moment mom-ent the rain came down in sheets, i'ho 1 earriago was turned in for shelter under a tree at the roadside. road-side. It had not been there long before out of the blackuess of tho appalling cloud came a great ball of tire. It came in a slanting direction and struck the ground just under tho carriage, lifting the vehicle and the horse nearly a foot from the ground. The horse wrs struck down but managed to scramble to bis feet ami ran fop fnw minniua iin.. feet and ran for a few minutes, finally stopping of his own accord. When every ono in the carriage recovered from the shock occasioned by the, bolt it was found that Mr. Sperry was badly blistered about the lower part of his right leg and his shoe had been nearly torn from his foot. Mrs. Sperry had been partially paralyzed, while tho two eldest children were rendered insensible insensi-ble from the shock. The others strangely strange-ly escaped entirely uninjured." |