Tag: Lightning
Girl Thought Dead Revived After Lightning Hit Her Coffin
The mourners were on their way to the cemetery when the storm broke over Hanston, Kansas. Inside the metallic coffin was the 5-year-old daughter of…
Lightning Struck Crowded Iowa Fair Tent, Killing 4 and Injuring Dozens
When rain began falling over the county fair in Indianola, Iowa, men, women, and children crowded into the poultry exhibition tent for shelter. Then lightning…
Man and 2 Horses Killed by Lightning Near New Salem
As a violent electrical storm swept across the farmland northwest of New Salem in 1914, Ernest Bohnke hurried to get two frightened horses into the…
Ironwood Man “Skinned Alive” By Lightning Bolt
When Tony Kmieck failed to return from a Saturday night fishing trip in 1925, his companions began searching the shores of Iron Lake. They found…
Starkweather Farmhand Killed by Lightning While Standing in Barn Doorway
When a violent summer storm swept across the countryside near Starkweather, North Dakota, in 1905, Burt Martin was asleep in an upstairs room of a…
Strange Lightning Strike Melts Iron Shoes Off Team of Mules
A strange lightning strike in Singac, New Jersey, left residents baffled in June 1910 because it happened while the sun was still shining. There was…
Lightning Tore the Shoe Off a 10-Year-Old Boy’s Foot
A single bolt of lightning tore through a Massachusetts neighborhood, injuring a young boy and knocking people and animals off their feet as it passed….
