Logan Republican | 1907-08-10 | Page 6 | Lightning Splits Big Tree

Lightning Splits Big Tree. The peculiar pranks played by a bolt of lightning on an oak treo at-trackod at-trackod hundreds of peoplo yesterday to Wlssahlckon avenue noar Lincoln lako, says the Philadelphia Record. Tho treo, which was fully 125 foot tall, was struck during tho electric storm recently and was split down n distanco of 7C foet, tho halves falling In opposite directions. Fifty feet of tho uppor part was stripped of bark, and a most ncullnr thing was that tho roots wero torn completely out of tho ground and hurled n considerable distance, dis-tance, while u circle of bark four feet high was loft standing.