| Show QUEER FREAKS dog killed in lap of painter who escapes uninjured many strange freaks of lightning are reported from a recent storm says a clayton N J dispatch to the philadelphia record while a man was painting a sign at landisville Landis ville a frightened dog lumped jumped on his lap A streak ot of lightning encircled the roans mans neck passed down to the dog and killed it instantly the sign painter was blinded tor for about three minutes tut dut felt no other effects of tho the lightning after his hig sight had returned to him the bolt that struck walter keen made a holo hole through the floor floo r directly under his toot foot but did not make the mark upon the rug A window pane 30 by 36 inches in the keen house was taker taken out by the lightning and stood up tip against a walnut tree without cracking the ilass glass the lightning having melted the putty and glaziers points A tree in north clayton was struck by a ball which appeared as big as a barrel an am Rt ripped entirely of its leaves without otherwise injuring the tree A tin till can at the mc IV williamq house was shaped by the lightning like an accordion plaited skirt A bolt ot of lightning filled harry Ess lers cc cel lar with dense smoke but made no marks whence it came or whither it went lightning jumped from a wire fence surrounding a poultry yard and gave mrs francis hill a shock from which she has not yet fully recovered |
