LIGHTNING.

WHERE IT STRUCK ON MONDAY EVENING.

Narrow Escape of Mrs. W. H. H. Smith

We were entirely correct - lightning did strike somewhere on Monday evening - it struck the residence of W. H. H. Smith, in Murphy's addition. Mrs. Smith and her child were the sole occupants of the house when the storm came up, and naturally enough, she was somewhat nervous. As the battle of the elements raged more fiercely, her nervousness increased, until she felt that she must seek shelter at a neighbor's. She was filled with an indescribable fear - was impressed with the idea that something terrible was about to happen, and that she must seek safety and protection elsewhere. She had been sitting beside a table and directly underneath a clock standing upon the mantle. Springing to her feet she seized her child and darted out of the door, toward a near neighbors. Scarcely had she crossed her own threshhold, when there came a blinding flash of lightning, and the electric bolt entered and fairly riddled her dwelling. Striking the chimney, it ran down and seemed to take possession of the entire house. The clock under which she had been sitting was thrown across the room, and the table was struck and shattered, as was the roof and walls of the building, while the door step over which she had but just passed was split in three pieces. To her timely departure from the house she owes her own life and the life of her child.