Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 38
Marlin, Texas,Thursday, November 20, 1902

ELECTRIC BOLT THROUGH FOOT.

       During the progress of a severe electrical storm at Temple John Gordon, a dairyman and farmer, living two miles west of town, sought refuge with his two sons in a barn.  Lightning struck the barn, the bolt passing through Gordon's foot, making an ugly wound and shocking him severly.  All three of the occupants were badly stunned and unable to move.  The barn was set on fire by the bolt and entirely consumed.  Before the inmates could recover sufficiently to get outside, they were badly burned.  The barn is a long distance from any neighbor's house, hence the occurence was unknown until the alarm was given and a neighbor telephoned into town for a doctor and assitance.  It is thought that the elder Gordon may have been fatally injured.

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