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Show I LIGHTNING STRIKES :JHm FAMILY 00---f MRS. REN WILLIAMS AND TWO CHILDREN RENDERED UN- s CONCIOUS. CHILDREN BAD LY BURNED. Last Saturday the people of Cedar ' were startled to learn that at about G o'clock that morning. Mrs. Ren Williams of Kanarra, and two of her children were struck with lightning1' It appears upon inquiry that the lady with her throe children were in bed, ono boy, the eldest, sleeping with I her, and the other two, a boy and a girl, were together in another bed, both beds being in the same room. . At the time a terriffic thunder f storm was on with much lightning! ,' and a ball of fire was noticed coming under the screen door of the room, jumped to the corner, ran along the wall and flashed to the bedstead ; near the childrens' heads. The storm '. had awakened the children and the mother, and they were keenly alivo to the peril of ligtning striking, and were positive of seeing the ball of fire, about C inches in diameter, coming into the room until it reached tho bed when it struck the children rendering them unconscious, and the "- jar reaching the bed of the mother, J- rendering her unconscious. The bolt & seemed to strike the electric light 5jU globe, knocking out the fusing. In K a short time tho mother regained her B senses sufficiently to grope to the fj bed where the children were, being .!. able to see only as flashes of lightn- j ing came. She found the children dead as she supposed, neither show- ' Ing any signs of life. She, frantic from fright, sent the eldest boy for help, and the little chap went two blocks and a half to his grandparents , and got them to come to the home, '" whero they found Mrs. Williams moaning over her children, thinking ; them dead. A messenger was Immediately sent to Cedar for a physician and when ho arrived on the. scene the ; children were resusitated, and at present they are doing nicely, as is J also the mother. i The boy was burned from his left l elbow up the arm to the shoulder! j then around to the back of his head, w whero the bolt burned tho hair en- J tirely off. Tho little girl, three H years of age, was struck on the right B side of the abdomen, ranging up the' , li aide to tho shoulder, around the D throat and up to tho forehead andj m around to back of head, with the B hair being badly burned. The width H of the bum on each child is about H lVv inches. The little girl received H bad burns on the left leg and left' H heel. K At the present writing the victims m of the lightning's vindictiveness are H feeling all right, other than slight ft pains from tho burned parts on their D bodies. IHi |