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From the cerulean empyrean* - a bolt. Liberty quivered, stood shaken but still unconquered, undamaged, poised on the golden dome of the Capitol...
...Marysville, Pa., a child sat on a railroad track, played with a stray bolt, heedless of a freight, train which bore down upon it. The engineer jammed on the air brakes, but hisheavy cars had too much momentum; they shoved the engine forward; it could not stop. A fireman, one Bruce Hoffman, leapt from the engine, raced ahead, snatched the child to safety...
Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, born in the village of Wolfshaven in 1797, was, with his brothers, a mountain guide. His country was devastated by Napoleon, then by the insurgent Prussians. His three brothers were killed on a mountain peak by a lightning bolt. Heinrich Steinweg joined the troops of the Duke of Brunswick. He played the bugle. In his knapsack, he carried a jewsharp- an instrument which he found inadequate. He evolved a dulcimer. It was played by striking the strings with little hammers...
Died. Harry T. Roll, 20, junior at Colgate University (Hamilton, N. Y.); at Colgate, struck by a bolt of lightning, as he completed a 100-yd. dash on the athletic field cinder track...
There is only one thing more startling than a bolt from the blue, and that is a shock from the earth-to have the earth heave and quiver. An earth shock, of quite respectable intensity, came thus suddenly to startle the northeastern U. S. It was not quite 9:30 in the evening (Eastern Time) when a series of quivers began. They were felt all through New England and New York, ebbing away but still perceptible as far south as Washington and as far west as Chicago, and also in Canada. The quivers lasted for about four minutes. A fault...