The lightning which struck Mr. M.H. Griffing’s barn, at Middletown, on Friday morning, played some queer freaks. It struck a carriage house attached to the barn, through which it passed, the flames following so rapidly as to destroy almost everything within. Mr. Griffing’s loss is about $4,000, on which there is very little insurance. In the stables were eighteen horses; one of which was fatally injured, while the other seventeen escaped unhurt. A man who was at the moment locking the door was knocked senseless, in which condition, or delirious he has since remained. The lightning also struck a servant girl in the carriage house, injuring her severely. After leaving the barn, the fluid leaped an intervening space of 53 feet and entered a separate barn in which a man was rubbing down a colt. The bolt passed between them, throwing them to opposite sides of the building, but apparently without serious injury to either. The family of Mr. Griffing, in the house, at a distance of perhaps 60 or 75 feet from the barn, were all sensibly affected by the shock, and some of them felt the effects for twenty-four hours afterwards, in the form of giddiness. A man in another house, a long distance from the spot, and seemingly too far to be affected by the stroke, had a lamp knocked out of his hand by the effects of the stroke, as he was going down stairs. Mr. Griffing saved 17 horses and 17 cows.
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