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Struck in the House in Which William Spriggs, Lay Dead Monday Afternoon. During the rain and electrical storm shortly after noon Monday, lightning struck in the house occupied by a colored family, on Wenner’s Hill, Brunswick, and ran down inside of the wall about a foot from the head of a dead man, William Spriggs, who died Sunday morning, about three days after returning to his home there. The body was lying on the cooling board at the time the lightning struck the house. The corner of the house in which the lightning struck was badly dam aged, though not set afire. Plaster was torn from the walls in both the first and second story rooms in that corner of the house. Considerable excitement was caus ed in that vicinity by the occurrence, and very soon the report spread that the body had been thrown from the cooling board and turned completely around by the force of the electricity. This report was found to be very much exaggerated.
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Frederick News
Frederick, Maryland, US
Wed, Jul 21, 1915
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