STRUCA BY LIGHTNING.
A River Captain's Experience With EtKCTRICITir.
Sailors are proverbial for iheir big yarns, bub they can't get much ahead of river men' says the Cincinnati ' Enquirer.' The other day Captain J. D. Parker gob hold of Captain'Gibson, and ha said: *Dave., you jgocollect when I was mate on the "Ynzoo and that streak of lightning struck me as I stood near the jackstaff in that terrible storm, and you all thought I was dead for sure ?' ■ ■ • ■ . ■ • Oh, yes, very well ; but where did the lightning go to, anyhow V •Why, it went right down into my boob.' ' And you never were hurt ?' f No, sir; not a bib. I just took my boofc off and poured the lightning oub on the deck.' > And the two worthies wenb to look aft the weather map.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 187, 9 August 1890, Page 3 (Supplement)
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