Show J LIGHTNING r MADE A A SNAPSHOT T Picture of Railroad Yards Formed Forma O on I Window Window Explanation Explanation Given by by Photo Photographer The recent nt stories of the picture of ot ofa n a wreath that appeared appealed on ort a n window windowpane pane In a n Columbus residence e and alit which glass gluss experts pronounced nothing noth ing more mOle than a defect In the glass which had been there from rom the time Ume It was made but only noticed after there had been a n death In the residence residence residence resi resi- dence recalls to a prisoner In the penitentiary a similar case that came cameto to his attention when he was employed employed em em- plo ed by the Pennsylvania railroad at nt Altoona Pa ra It was us traced to another an on other though equally scientific cause One night might the private car of ot dent Roberts of that railroad wets W shunted onto n a siding in the yards ar s at Altoona and before morning there came a heavy heay thunderstorm WI with l intensely Intensely In In- tensely vIvId lightning Next morn morn- ing lag when the tae cleaning crew crew- cleaning the car there was found on one of the window ow panes a n very good picture of the yards that la lay directly In front of It ft It was Just lust like Ilke a fairly wel developed well photographic plate and there could be no question but that the scene In the picture was the yards ards before it A photographer who waa called to look at nt it concluded that there hat had I been a thin film of oil on the window which In some wn way became sensitive to to- Intense lI light ht and a flash of lightning lightning lightning light light- ning had Imprinted the he scene before the lie window on the pane Columbus DIspatch |