Narrow Escape from death by lightning at the W. H. Fairchilds home
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Narrow Escape from death by lightning at the W. H. Fairchilds home
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Posted: 25 Mar 2008 9:12PM GMT |
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Appears in "The Ravia Herald" 11 April 1908, Ravia, Johnston County, Oklahoma
A NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH
During the thunder storm Monday evening the family of W. H. Fairchilds, who lives in West Ravia, narrowly escaped death. The house was struck in two places and damaged in three. One bolt struck the rock chimney, knocking off part of the top of the chimney and scattering the rocks around generally, some of them, being thrown into the garden and one to the middle of the street. This bolt passed down the chimney until where the house and chimney came together, and then it seemed to have passed down the wall of the house, tearing the paper off the wall over the mantel and knocking off the wooden jam of the fire-place. Mr. Fairchilds was setting with his chair against the window casing and the fire jam, and was knocked unconscious, as was also Mrs. Fairchilds and Mrs. Craig, who were in the room. Mr. Fairchilds escape is marvelous, as the jam was torn loose that his chair was against. The other bolt struck the roof of the house, one prong of It seemed to have passed across the roof of the house on the tin valley and down the wall on the west side of the dining room, while the other prong passed down the east wall of the some room, both walls being damaged and the planks struck splintered. The safe, on the west side of the dining room, was also struck and damaged. This room is quite small and Mr. Fairchilds’ son had just entered the room and was standing at the dining table when the lightning struck, and his was a narrow escape, yet he was less shocked than those in the other room. The damage to the building was much, not over $25 or $30.
About the same time the frame store building of Andrew Nanny, just west of the Fairchilds’ about a block, was struck but no serious damage done beyond a hole in the roof and ceiling.
A NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH
During the thunder storm Monday evening the family of W. H. Fairchilds, who lives in West Ravia, narrowly escaped death. The house was struck in two places and damaged in three. One bolt struck the rock chimney, knocking off part of the top of the chimney and scattering the rocks around generally, some of them, being thrown into the garden and one to the middle of the street. This bolt passed down the chimney until where the house and chimney came together, and then it seemed to have passed down the wall of the house, tearing the paper off the wall over the mantel and knocking off the wooden jam of the fire-place. Mr. Fairchilds was setting with his chair against the window casing and the fire jam, and was knocked unconscious, as was also Mrs. Fairchilds and Mrs. Craig, who were in the room. Mr. Fairchilds escape is marvelous, as the jam was torn loose that his chair was against. The other bolt struck the roof of the house, one prong of It seemed to have passed across the roof of the house on the tin valley and down the wall on the west side of the dining room, while the other prong passed down the east wall of the some room, both walls being damaged and the planks struck splintered. The safe, on the west side of the dining room, was also struck and damaged. This room is quite small and Mr. Fairchilds’ son had just entered the room and was standing at the dining table when the lightning struck, and his was a narrow escape, yet he was less shocked than those in the other room. The damage to the building was much, not over $25 or $30.
About the same time the frame store building of Andrew Nanny, just west of the Fairchilds’ about a block, was struck but no serious damage done beyond a hole in the roof and ceiling.