Show Cause of Death by JI Lightning Tho The cause of death by lightning is the tho sudden absorption of the tho electric current When a thunder cloud which is highly char charged ed with positive positive positive tive electricity hangs over any certain place the earth beneath it becomes abnormally charged with th the eg electric current and a aman aman aman man animal or other object standing or lying directly beneath also partakes partakes partakes par par- par par- takes of tho the last mentioned influence If f while the man animal animal- or other object is in this condition a discharge discharge discharge dis dis- charge takes take's place from tho the clouds above the restoration of the tho equilibrium equilibrium will be bo bel sudden and violent or in ia language that we can all aU understand tho the negative current the earth will rush up to join the positive loud cloud current and in passing through tho the object which separates the two VO currents if it bean bean be bo boan an animate I being will do so with such force as to o almost invariably produce instant death |