A NARROW ESCAPE.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 177, 28 July 1888, Page 9 (Supplement)

A NARROW ESCAPE.

A ilan Struck by Lightslcg g KlUofl. "5Ji

The narrowest (seapbfromdali ning of which I have everlicsidai knowledge while lecturing a fAj'n at tlie Fonda Chautaqua. >■''-

The drugstore, wliiclnYnkli oflico by the good pcojifo at Ik stands between the railroad sis/ their bc-iutiful little lake, ittfca which I 'refer it w;is 'prttkW common-ciiiod twisted copper'taJ ning rod, with iron core,' fssftj house by glass insulatorsintlißoMi way. (Several otbor houses iir.ta ' rodded ' in the fame way, bttiS one was badly shattered tliejrwi by their owners ' to lesson their da getting struck, you know,' Ihijaj 7\.bout 100 feet back of tliopo&fa two line specimens of the tall jna grow so abundantly in thatnfjra On the afternoon of the lSft August, at about X o'clock, ana boys and me^i had collect-oil mki otlica porch, tliinkinp, on mm lightning id, that they wotfi from the lightning, wi.ich «'! rather ircoly from on only |mitiaßj covered sky. Among tli-Wfl Chisholm, a merchant of IJa W was sitting about half ivaj'fe corncr-poit of the porch andtni window. . , The lightning struck the twl nnd after shattering their tops, fe the rod, completely mclting.itspj then running along- tke cow« to the gable and down b W Chisholm's only recollection of J a sensation like that of a bawl* air striking him between LtM;i Ho was thrown fprward'opraw taken up for dead. His shWs' and his trousers nearly £o,'y» left looking very much.asifwj' attacked by an army of liunerytiß a man could have his clotws* from him by lightning in m' still live, is a mystery, ■ mm entirely in two. His body £ blistered, especially from tbirw Becoming conscious, he; ops terrible feeling of suffocation•• ache, as though it weuld m. mained helpless for four monW' tcrisibly from aching int!ie?°; stinging sensation, 'as tMWA needles were being stuck w body-' : ' . a^\ Now, after a lapse of ovMg Mr Chisholm hf.s pradofllly wn use of his limbs, only snflw* occasional violent involuntary F back. "He-attends to w-^tf covered much of hisformwjf* Several others sitting COT ; course,' more or le's.shaKen« j Dr.' Alfred caught \ F'J holm's chargo in bis w m, crutches for some days, jvj The jeweller, Mr-OodM-J work in the window «»«»» had his hair and breast badly?" tho artist who took those pM| his pipe knocked out ot Mj broken to pieces.-l rotew»_. ■ the ' Scientific American.