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Title: History of Delaware county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the territory included within its limits to the present time, with a notice of the geology of the county, and catalogues of its minerals, plants, quadrupeds, and birds
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, George, 1804-1882 Delaware county institute of science, Media, Pa
Subjects: National history
Publisher: Philadelphia, Printed by H. B. Ashmead
Contributing Library: University of Pennsylvania Libraries
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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. 391 house in Springfield, was struck by lightning. The morningwas showery, but no thunder was heard nor appearance of light-ning seen, either before or after the shock, which produced thefollowing effects: It appears first to have descended on thechimney, which it entirely leveled to the top of the house, dis-persing the bricks to a considerable distance, with great part ofthe roof—fractured the gable end, a stone wall into sundrypieces, and penetrated in veins or branches, down to differentparts of the house. In the closet of a lower room, a glass bot-tle with a pound and a half of gunpowder in it, was broken andpart of the powder thrown about, which did not take fire ; aclock near the closet, was overset, and the weights found at 15 feetdistance from the place where it stood, and considerable damagewas done to the furniture. In passing into the upper chamber,by the stack of chimneys, a gun barrel and some pieces of brass,which were in a closet, were mel

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