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gSSE?Lightning Strikes Lincoln Churcht;. Filled with People....The greatest excitement that •»wtvs,evetve x p e r ie n eed, by, eitiis’ens of. Ruke tvtid vicinity last Mopdav ?tlf t ernoon.-. A il'ie i beyelectric storm , passed _ovcr I his town‘with-a high wind The ftineuvl services of the rtVniSins'..6E Jlenry;Matis )vas in ^progress at the- -Lnticoln.y Churchy ^when.lke storm'commenced. • '■''-'When Ltev.' PetersOn was in the .;.middje of his sermon', the church fc'bTicne wuas truck by a’heavy bolt of- lightning. ' It hit^the, steeple and crushed down thru the frame work of the.steeple and -not th. end wall of the building- quite a num-:bcr of men who. were standing up-. and leaning against the wall. Otter.;■man was killed/outrignfc. . Three ■.others were over -come; one ’of these/revived again in a few minutes hut the others had to have.' considerable attention to keep up Tife- and biing their circulation -into. aetioii again. Martin L. Q'uum. is the man who was ki 1 led and the ones who revived in a. shqrt time was Otis Quatnme, P. J. Christianson;and ,Ote O. Quam ; were very near: denth.Cht isteti-‘ son was able to sit up and ride ■ Lome: in a buggy in about an hour after the strike; Mr. Ole.O Quam : was hurt more and was in . precar-ions, condition the balance ofthe. day. . No tire started.in the build ing, but Mr-Quaru’s.ciothing was scorched . until the odor of the stnoke. could be smeUed in the .church room. There are.no signs , of tiL'e.-0!V;the.. wood.of the,building whatever.Of those who were hurt or kill ed, one- shoe was torn from .a foot of each person. 'One young man ■v: lbst/the bee! of one shoe but other wise was not tho.least bit hurt./ Ti - Aifer Ole Quam- was recusitated •he was carried to his home and : at.this writing be is still in- criti N etii candition.- -'Then, there was the panic strick-' 'e-i Audience. . There were -at •/ least several hunred.pebple in the /Tchurch 'and at ' least half of them ;; vro8e to ’ their feet as one man at .the very instant that the ciush was , ovc, . The. next thing was screaui-‘ing women, crying, children, men Vtmd women jumping and pushing ■/for a place of exit,. .There are three doors to the .building. One double front und two ordinary l‘i back.-doors.' One' of- the back ^'v,-doors was not utilised in getting ‘'- .put us the corpse stood acrass the *, way leading toAhat door. But the ^/olhey back-door,vand front were ; , lcttitig people out about as fast as l'\ .they’.- could push out.^ There 01; Ski1 more1 of the ‘windows were vised, to jp^gcf out at. ' One- window- was al-how;; coming-down in,torrents.. When the-people got out the next thing w,tvs to snek-a dry .place; Ev-,e r y neigh ho r i n g ho use. .w as taken possession of; dlellttud’s Jensy old’s Mrs. C. Knutson’s d. J... Sub in's, ■ jind. tho editor^ house, all' had a share by 'taking in. so the of- the drenched fugitive*.. The editor’s house-was turned into a little hos ■ pital for several Lours. As qlvi-v c.kiyyas possible the men who wetV down, were taken there,-und it was then it was. first aseertaine'd that Martin L. Quam wasdead and Unit, he was killed outright. All the.attention them had.to be/turned to those who had some show.of life in them.' The funeral closed at once, and Rev . Peterson closed • his sermon abruptly, by saying “God -Almighty.' has tulaed. to us better than L ciin preach,.Amen.’’The rain let up enuff later so that the corpse and the funeral people could reach the train in good time so that they got headed for Kleiii-me as intended. The damage done to the building can hardly be estimated at this time. The greater part of the ceiling boards on the north end wall will have to be torn off in or der to see what the necessary repairs will need to be doneyto the frame work of the church. Tbv steeple was struck jut below thlt; metal : point , and. from there of down;to- the shouldes above thlt; be I fry t lie shi i igle- f o r more t hat a foot .vide are stripped oil, am many of the sheeting boords ar ripped loose. The southwest cor her post of the belfry is stiippei almost clean; just the bare fran work of the post- is standing. J. nnmber of the tiinbeis in the frat: woidv of the steeple at e torn int shreds. -- Qn the outside 'of th building much^of the siding,in th riotthwest coiner is ripped loose but nbneofyit is. clear off, y. .This 'is an event,tk.it will neve be forgotten in the memory o then,,as an event of the history making of this to win The fuiu lies of tlie. men, who were hut and tire dead one, are more direc ly coucerned, but it, is affectin the. heart feeling of 'every mil Wbman hhd clild that had any cpf nection with it.window- vihat/ theydeivd' man and I'^ioihQ of stunh^ed/^cs; jvere gpt(en ^bu^of''-b'efor.e.'■The■-':dopTiv'ay,'.was cleaved. V\S^V ,/Dr/J.' EhRuss wuvmvMdevf-unemn’ldVnVi nndM n t^Ivo^ch u I'ch-vO^11 i toTired,- Actiing Muesles ReleivedHard work, over-bxprtion, uie; stiff, sore muscles. ;:Sloa.n’s Dinimei lightly Applied; a little quiet, 'ai your,soreness disappears;, like magi ^•‘Nothing . ever '-helped.like'' yoi Sloan1 s Liuiinent., I can never th;u yoii enpugh,’.’ writes,cne grateful uslt; :Stops,suffering,- aches and pains. I excellent-counter-iritant, - better ai -cleanerthan, mustard, All Druggis 25 cents.'- Get a bpttie, to-day -penetrates .wi.thout-rubbiijg. - ^Some .women.are awful touch A widowjias :'hrb;ught-. an'moth agains’tjii'pifper which said'that h husband, Intel ^gone ' to a ha'ppjlipnie) , V • ' //'. '' /'-•/‘A^heqL, man is .a success'
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Rake Register
Rake, Iowa, US
Thu, Jul 01, 1915
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