| Show FREAKS today while I 1 was working at price across the rio bio vir virgin r in from here a small shower of rain rain and hall hail came up during which a terrible lightning stroke occurred at pm by which a young lady mrs ida C fawcett came near losing her life she was in the house sweeping the floor and the lightning struck the west chimney of the building apparently patently ly h hitting the southeast corner comer of it knocking off several of the stones running diagonally two ways one to the north and one to the outside of the chimney and down the wall about ten feet A portion of the lightning seemed to sever went down the chimney into the room filling the house with soot dirt rock and smoke shatter shattering InK mantel shelf and coming out on the south between the shelf and wall and a portion came out in two places north of the fireplace and also one place above the mantel A clock that stood on the mantel shelf had its case ruthlessly torn to pieces and some of it scattered over the floor and the pendulum ball thrown off yet the clock kept on the wag kent sister later ida C fawcett when found about a minute after after the shock occurred lay y on the floor in front of and about three and a half feet from the fireplace apparently dead she was covered with soot boot and smoke and was horrible to behold A brother administered to her immediately and soon she began to show signs of life her husband had her removed to another room and she was cared for as best beat they knew how and now she seems fully recovered but complains of feeling sore as the lightning has left its marks very plain in red streaks and spots nearly all over her body for some time her feet felt cold and numb but at last accounts she was feeling some better the freaks of the fluid are very strange besides coming out in the house some came through the wall on the outside in several places breaking a rock in the wall about two feet from the ground and moving one piece of it out about half an inch another P portion 0 artion of the fluid shattered the I 1 lower end of a rafter of the roof of the house about ten feet from the chiw chimney ney scattering slivers over the upper floor another tore some shingles off the roofard roof and still another portion struck the upper rim rim of the southeast 1 corner ll 11 post of the porch on the nor north t h of the house slivering it from top to bottom and scattering pieces over the ground for about ten rods from the house one of the nail heads in the upper part of the post bears evidence of having been burnt by the fluid ajar A jar which sat at the foot of the post was shattered and pieces aces of it thrown through a window into the house and to the south door a distance of nearly twenty five feet the window in q question u estion had four panes of glass broken during the fracas A piece of wood with two nails in stuck fast to the window frame sister Fawcet fawcette ts husband wm A fawcett and another man were standing on the porch about eight feet from the post at the time the lightning struck it but escaped injury we have had deiy very dry weather for some timeout time but it is a trifle showery at present and quite cool the health of the people in this vicinity is generally good yet some little sickness is prevailing in some parts but nothing serious the first crop of lucerne Is now being gathered J W CARPENTER bloomington washington county utah may 8 1889 |
