Show SECOND STROKE A GOOD ONE Remarkable Story of Lightning Related Relat-ed by Veracious Mariner In Duluth down on the docks some days ago somo freshwater undent 1 mariners were talking of adventures on tho raging main began Cnpt O J Ludlow of Detroit at tho National Capt 11 said oneit seems to wo Ivo heard somewhere that your vessel was onco struck by lightning while sailing sailing over tho bounding main l lYell Yep twice said Cnpt H Happened Hap-pened off Point mix Barques bout 1C years ago Wo wore joggln long when a thunderstorm overtook us and tho very first lash of lightning struck the deck amidships and bored n hole as big as my right leg down through tho bottom ot the YOBBO And she foundered of course No sir rice water began rushing In and sho would have foundered but there came n second Hash and a bolt struck my fore to galinnt mast It was cut off near tho top turned bottom bot-tom end up tutu as It entice down it entered tho hole nod plugged it up as tight ns a drum When wo got down to dry dock wo simply I sawed off either end and left the plug In the planks Washington Herald |