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the employees, nothing remarkable took place. The seaman in the hold were slightly stunned.

The pattern shop of J.P. Morris & Co. on Richmond Street was struck last summer. It was surmounted with a wooden cupola, containing a clock, and in the cupola was the lightning rod, running from thence down and over the slate roof and against the outside of the brick wall into the ground. In this building, and in the area in front of it there was a great quantity of iron and iron machinery. According to an eyewitness - one of the men in the establishment, the bolt struck the cupola, and set fire to the building where the rod passed from the cupola on to the roof, and the building was entirely burned to the ground.

During these same thunderstorms the woolen mills of 

at Manayunk were struck with lightning, and from appearance, on the lightning rod, as there the fire first made its appearance. The building was totally consumed by the fire.

Enon. Babtist Church. [[strikethrough]] N.E. corner of 23d & [[/strikethrough]] in the north western part of the city was also struck, and upon the bell tower, shattering the bellfry to pieces, and breaking through the ceiling in the vestibule. This building had no lightning rod, and there was no fire communicated in the explosion. The Electrical force passed of laterally and knocked off a piece of weatherboarding on the east side of it.