| Show electricity on pikes peak yesterday a party of nearly forty ladies a and gentlemen a number of whom were from this city made the aident of pikes peak anti and had bad an experience which they will never forget while they were were up biere violent electrical disturbances took place anti and a arose the clouds around and bulow thern them could be seen iRio moving dis charing channg their contents upon the sur forests anil fields and nail formed in the air all about abent thew them aud and fell in showers sho what was most ing ause was the wonderful electric phenomena the very air was waa charged with electricity and about half the lad es ea were so ao paralyzed that they were sti etched ched out on the floor of the signal station quite helpless ane electric lights sparkled kled all about the persons of the explorers and they breathed it in with every inhalation inhalation it sparkled and crackled upon their lips and shoulders and was visible ible on their finger tips strange miniature ninia rvinia ture auroras formed and dissolved all about them it played about every pointed object au aud devery every bit of metal was strom naly fly magnetized As the public is i await the government tins has abandoned the ageal station on the p peak t and ha has turned it over to harvard lleo 1 li college several of the men were there and being new cornera coiners they were as badly f frightened right ened as the visitors one of them a protestor professor ww had just jast arrived wore a larze large pair ot of spectacles the crackled all about them thein aud could be seen running f from rom his eyes to h his i ears and thence darting dar tini into his hair lie ile threw the spectacles off and to the the entire party felt the effects of the disturbance in more or aitos degree and some were bratly overcome denver news aug 25 |
