Show 4 LIGHTNING CAME BY PHONE 1 e 11 f While the sun was shining the other day at Clinton N. N J. J and there was no indication of ot an electrical storm a G E b bolt olt of ot lightning struck a liberty pole In Ip n front of ot a hotel shattering the shaft 1 and scaring a team of mules so badly c eJ that hat they ran two miles The Tho team r II as tied to a ring attached to the pole c which was thirty feet teet high After the E animals had been stopped It was found 1 that hat the bolt of lightning which had battered the pole had also melted the theiron theron iron tron ron shoes from each of the tho mules nd s 1 s Otherwise they were uninjured Th Thea The 4 a of af the lightning bolt puzzled all t 4 t the he e local electrical experts and met meteorologists me me- Hi t but after investigation It p was as as found that wire a telephone running run run- jj fling ning from SIngac passed so close to oJ he flag pole as to touch it At the if- if time the was struck a fierce thun thun- d G er storm was raging in the vicinity rpy cr of Singac and the theory Is that uc IuD lightning striking the telephone wire 1 IE- IE In the storm zone traveled over the ther r able ble until It encountered the r elated liberty pole where the full b bJ ra t force I of the bolt was spent I |