Show QUEER FREAKS dog killed in lap of painter who escapes uninjured many strange freaks of lightning are arc reported report eI from a recent storm says a clayton N J dispatch to the philadelphia record while a man was painting a sign at Landis landisville ville a frightened dog jumped on his lap A streak of lightning encircled the mans neck passed down to the dog and killed it instantly the sign painter was blinded for about three minutes but felt no other effects of the lightning after his sight eight had bad returned to him the bolt that struck walter keen made a hole through the floor directly un under der his fo foot ot but did not make the slightest mark upon the rug A window pane 30 by 36 inches in the keen house was taken out by tho the lightning and stood up against a walnut tree without cracking the glass the lightning having melted the putty and glaziers points A tree in north clayton was struck by a ball which appeared us as big as a barrel and stripped entirely of its leaves without otherwise injuring the tree A tin can at the dewilliams Williams Me house was shaped by the lightning like an accordion plaited skirt A bolt of lightning filled harry Es Ess alers lers cellar with dense smoke but made no marks marko whence it came or whither it A went lightning jumped from a wire fence surrounding a poultry yara and gave mrs airs francis hill a shock from which she has not yet fully recovered |