| Show SATURDAY TIIUhUEUPEAL It Has liol Allogellur Noli llorr Lightning ntrnck u Irer The first harp peal of thunder on Saturday afternoon startled a good mauy people not given to over uervousnesi and frightened many others not particularly enraptured with tbe artillery of Ike cloud That peal wes not all I base either to far as I concerned tbs autlci ot the bill ol eleotilclly whIM caused the explosion The central part of tue thunder wai at tbe juncture Hlxtb Santo alit Tulrd l West streets in whlcu nelghb rhood evrybody was ilarlled and women and children Impelled to tcrerim with udden fright Tbe particular point ol tile light ulnga loutacl wIll the earth woo on the properly ot Mr Alex Burl a few I rod north if Sloth Boulh strevl on Third West On each Ida cf tbe gala lands B njpUr tree 60 or 00 feet high A few feel from the most southerly tree Is B bydraul around which there Is I a pool of water and at mulch Mr Jiurl is I lo the haolt of stopping > 10 queuih his thirst ai he Harts for tIe work about 4 p m dally and around which on school day there often are many cbl dreu But ou Balurda lortunalely no children were there Mr Bun Had Just nom tut of his htuio and stopped a moment lookIng al lIe lowering oboe to nauge Ibe uroseols for a shower Jusi then a vivid Sash of 1 llchlulug almost blinded him Icr a moment with Its IntensIty of light and the beat seemed 10 pierce nud thrill Ills body so tbat he lek the tflect of the shoo for several b are Simultaneous with the flash ol Ibo e ecttlc fluid bo saw Ihe grist lop I Ian tree ou Ins south of tile gate quiver In a most remarkable manner lh lightning playeJ an Instant on Ibe trunk ol the brie Ibo left U about afoot a-foot from toe ground darted across to Ibe hydrant whluU was enveloped lu Hi blulauwulte flume for traction 01 a second Ibeo Ibe Iolrlo currnt darrod Inlo tho water and cent prub ably finding lIa best I conductor lu the contents of the watermalns and in Hiding a similar case of damage thereto lo that which the electric car companlei are held responsible doe The next noticeable movement alter tbe lightning disappeared was that a couple of strIpe 01 bark fell mom Ibe poplar tree end a slab of green wood barn and all abmt ten meetlong olosor leo Ian heewide and Ibre or lour IneIrs rough in Us thickest pan tore from tIle Ir by 1 the lightning loll to the ground whet It bee altrtcled winy curious observers since Mr Burt Ii I thankful for two thing viz that there were no children chil-dren around Ihe hydrant at the time aol thai bo stepped HI the corner of the house 13 at not lo be at 1 Ibe water model either since his experience was eufllclentiy thrilling and atartlid a thirty feel away to last him Iheuil u bie day |
