Show i = I u THE ELEtiE TS PROTEST Warning to the Chaps Vlio ThInk tho Fish Story Teller Is Safe I Eintnut Washburn and Irving Smith i were on their way to Wilburs mill I near Pinesville in tipper Delaware valley val-ley tho other day Washburn was driving driv-ing a team of valuable yonng horses The sun was shining brightly over their heads but the sky to the northward was black with thunderclouds The last thing Washburu remembered while they were driving along was that ho was listening to a fish story Smith was telling him when suddely there came a frightful crash over their heads and a flash of intense light = The next thing Washburn remembers is his finding himself lying in the bottom bot-tom of his wagon with Smith lying near After awhile ho was able to rise and look about him Both of his horses lay dead in the road Smith revived soon afterward The sun was still shining shin-ing brightly and the thunderclouds in the north had broken away A thunderbolt thunder-bolt from a clear sky had evidently burst upon them Each horse had a hole in his neck Smith was wearing a pair of bluo overalls with a patch in each knee The patches were cone hav ing been cut out around tho edges as neatly as if the separation was done with a pair of shears Tho rim of Wash burns straw hat had been cut entirely away in the same manner Neither of the men was injured in tho slightest degree but each felt a strange numbness in his body and limbs I for two hours They buried the horses ct the roadside A peculiarity of this freak of freaky lightning is that while Smith can remember re-member distinctly tho story ho was telling tell-ing Washburn up to the point when it was interrupted by the thunderbolt he cannot remember tho closing part of it although he says tho incidents of it happened to him this season and ho had told tho story several times The team was valued at 500 Hoverdalo Pa Dispatch |