A MOST EXTRAORDINARY STORY.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1067, 29 March 1882, Page 2

A MOST EXTRAORDINARY STORY.

Three young men in Union county, Arkansas, were discussing the probabilities of rain from a cloud which was just then rising in the west, a few days ago. The youngest of the group, John Greeman, referred to the drouth, and remarked that a God who would allow his people to suffer thus could not amount to much. Instantly a bolt of lightning flashed from a cloud overhead, and the young man fell dead.

■ early every bone in the body was smashed into jelly, while his boots were torn from his feet and the clothing from his lower extremities. The body, presented a horrible appearance being blackened and mangled mass of humanity. His companions were stuned and thrown on the ground but not seriously injured. The funeral of the unforunate young man occured next day, and attracted a great concourse of persons, a large portion of whom were drawn thither by the rumour of the strange event preceding the death of the deceased. When the body was deposited in the grave and the loose earth had been thrown in until the aperture was filled, and while the friends of the dead man yet lingered in the cemetery, a bolt of lightning descended from n, cloud directly over the burial place and struck the grave, throwing the dirt us if a plough had passed lengthwise through it. No one was injured, but those present scattered almost paralyzed with tor-