Show A OF it strips a man of hit Cloth ilig without alling mine Scie AUA A the narrowest escape from death lightning of which I 1 have over I 1 came to my knowledge while a few weeks ago at the Chautauqua i the is used as a postoffice post office by the good people of D 0 funiak stands between tile railroad station and their beautiful rul little lake at the time to which I 1 re f tr it was I 1 protected by a common sized twisted copper hand lightning rod with iron core castene to the h use by glam insulators insulat in the old fashioned will y several other houses in town opre in the same way but after onta was badly abat they were torn air by theia eners to gewn their chances of gett i D struck you know they ex p I 1 a i 15 about a hundred feet back odthe two fine of tile tall pilles shiell grow to in that region on tle of the of last at about I 1 a kumher buys and men had col under tho porch thinking on account of the light ning rod that they rould be bafo from the lightning which was ing ri ither freely from an odily poly r cloud covered iky among them wai john chr holm a merchant af do k who was siti tr ig about half way between corner post of the porch find the nearest window the lighting struck the two high pines and after shattering their lops leaped to the rod complete ly melting its points and then running along the comb of the roof to the gable and down a corner mr Cheis holms only recollection of the stroke is a sensation like tha bof a b eavy blast of hot air striking him between the shoulders ile was thrown forward apon his face and taken up for dead ma shoes were new and his trousers nearly s ol 01 yet they were left looking very much d if they bad been attacked by tin army of hungry rats how a man could have his clothes off from him by lightning in that style and still live is a mystery ilis birt WAS torn anti rely in two ilia body was badly blistered especially from the knees down becoming conscious he experienced a terrible and headache as though it would burst he ro bained helpless help leps for four months suf fiering terribly from aching in the bones and a stinging as though needles were being stuck all over his body now after a lapse of over nine months mr bolm has ally recovered the use of his limbs only suffering fram an occasional t boback ile attends to his business and has recovered much of his former health several others sitting near were of course more or less shaken up dr alfred caught a part of mr Chris holms charge in his foot and went on crutches for some days the jeweler mr cochran who was at work in the window nearest the corner bad his hair and beard badly tinged and an artist had his pipe knocked out of his mouth and broken to pieces |