Alburgh, Vermont, USA (Alburg) (East, South, Center) (Alburg Springs)
1889 - Lightning Freaks at Alburgh

Lightning played some curious pranks at Alburgh yesterday afternoon. A thunder storm was raging some two miles or more away, but no rain was falling at Alburgh, when suddenly a single bolt - apparently an offshoot from the distant storm - struck a barn belonging to H. L. Sowles, tearing out a small portion of one end of it, killing two horses and injuring three others. No flashes of lightning preceded this one, and none followed it, but its effects were felt pretty thoroughly in that vicininty, quite a number of people being more or less prostrated by the shock. Mr. Sowles' hire man had only a minute before left the barn; had he remained he would doubtless have been killed. A wood saw which he was using was knocked out of his hands by the shock. One woman in that neighborhood was so prostrated that it took half an hour to bring her to.

Mr. Sowles' stock was insured by Borley, and the later goes to Alburgh tomorrow to foot the bills.

St Albans Daily Messenger
St Albans, Vermont
August 1, 1889

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