Show HAD A FEAR OF LIGHTNING lifelong dread made woman unconscious and she died from fright during a thunderstorm at newton N J a woman who mho through all he her d life ot of fifty years had felt ft a nervous dread of lightning became unconscious from fright and died cannot the multitudes of otherwise rational people who are obsessed by the same dread take counsel of the fate of this unfortunate and alin allay y their fears asks the new york world they suffer tin an access of terror in every thunderstorm and in effect undergo the agony of death many times yet fet there are few other forms form of death so painless or so remote in 1012 1912 in the whole country only persons were killed by lightning of whom but 42 were females woken women who mainly feel this fear should be e eu cou raged by their greater immunity but in tact fact twice as many people are burned to death in conflagrations in a year as tire are killed hilled by thunderbolts and the number of those who die from organic heart disease compared with those who die from lightning Is as to 1 no doubt the superstition that has attached from the earliest times to deaths by lightning has had something to do with the survival of the fear people who view their inescapable exit esit from this world with philosophy should he be ready to accept it a lightning stroke as an end as easy as any other it Is too instantaneous to admit of physical sensation while the fear ridden are assured that it if the flash is seen the sufferer Is saia safa |