. Thunder and lighting. , where it exploded with anappalling crash, but without having caused any damageor hurt anybody. Not far from the scene of thisphenomenon there are a number of buildings providedwith lightning conductors. The fireball left no traceof smell behind it. Here is another curious narrative of a fireball. A party of five women took refuge during a stormin the entrance to a house in order to escape from therain and the lightning. They had scarcely gained the doorway when therewas a tremendous thunderclap which sent them flyingbackwards—and two girls who had joined them—knocked
. Thunder and lighting. , where it exploded with anappalling crash, but without having caused any damageor hurt anybody. Not far from the scene of thisphenomenon there are a number of buildings providedwith lightning conductors. The fireball left no traceof smell behind it. Here is another curious narrative of a fireball. A party of five women took refuge during a stormin the entrance to a house in order to escape from therain and the lightning. They had scarcely gained the doorway when therewas a tremendous thunderclap which sent them flyingbackwards—and two girls who had joined them—knocked senseless by lightning in the form of a fire-ball. One of the girls remained unconscious for a longtime; all the others were more or less seriously injured,but all recovered. The strangest circumstance inconnection with this affair, however, still remains to betold. On the same side of the street as the passage, ina neighbouring house, nine or ten yards away, in aground-floor room of which the door was shut, a young. SINGULAR CASE OF THREE FIREBALLS OBSEBTED IN PARISON JUNE 10, 1905, BY M. H. BUDADX. They were seen to descend iu this way upon thelightning conductor above the Palais Royal electric-power station. This engraving, after a sketch made atthe time by M. Budaux, appeared iu La Science lllustr€e,for August, 1905. iPage 64. FIREBALLS 65 woman was working at a sewing-machine. At themoment of the thunderclap, she experienced a violentshock throughout her whole body, and a fierce burningsensation in the hollow of her back. It was foundafterwards that between the shoulder-blades and alsoon her leg, she had been badly scorched, but thewounds quickly healed. Now, in the room of thisvictim, no trace was to be found of the passing of thefireball, neither on the ceiling, nor on the floor, nor onthe walls. There was absolutely nothing to show howthe electric fluid could have made its way in fromthe spot in which the fireball had exploded in theneighbouring house, separated f
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