Eureka Reporter | 1905-06-16 | Page 4 | Lightning Looped the Loop

LIGHTNING LOOPED THE LOO ch cago man eye witness of kennark able demonstration wednesday night s electric storm was one of the worst and also one ot the most peculiar thai I 1 have ever seen says a writer in the chicago news and as I 1 work throughout the night I 1 had un usual op ties tor its observe aaion one of the strange features of the storm was ohp peculiar shape some of the flashes of lightning as fumed one of these I 1 have t lined in the accod anding diagram this flash actually looped the loop starting the clouds it traveled earthward toward the south then it suddenly made an skyward and then coming down it completed the loop crossing its own path and dying out in dark ness as it neared the ground some of the hailstones that fell during t e storm were as margeas lar geas walnuts