published in the Scots Magazine Thunder storms Kills Wed 1 Sept 1819
August In the beginning of this month, thunder storms prevailed over the three kingdoms, which were in various parts productive of considerable damage but, except in one case in Ireland, were not attended with loss of human life. The sufferer in this case was Arthur GALBRAITH, Esq. of Lissnally near Omagh. This gentleman, it appeared, had a remarkable dread of thunder, and when the storm came on he was sitting in his own house and immediately betook himself to a bible. The servant came in to lay the cloth for dinner, and he instantly dismissed him charging him to take the knives and forks out of the room, and entreated every person in the house would go to their devotion until (as he emphatically said) this awful visitation passed. He was sitting on a sofa at a small table, his lady opposite him; his two daughters and their governess at their work, when he got up, after reading for some time, and unfortunately sat down in a corner, and leaned his head back against the wall; he had not been there two minutes until he was struck dead instantaneously. Mrs GALBRAITH was thrown to the floor, where she lay quite insensible; one of the children's faces scorched, the other burnt in the neck, as if three bars of red hot iron had been laid on the place; the window curtains burnt to cinders, and scattered all over the room; the marble chimney pieces in three rooms shattered off in a thousand pieces; the locks twisted off the doors and seven hundred panes of glass broke; a dog in the kitchen killed, and every being in the house except the governess, either less or more injured. -- te...@cotyrone.com www.cotyrone.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/CoTyroneIrelandGenealogy/ _______________________________________________ UlsterAncestry@cotyrone.com UlsterAncestry Mailing List Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/ulsterancestry@cotyrone.com/ http://lists.cotyrone.com/mailman/listinfo/ulsterancestry Website: https://cotyrone.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/CoTyroneIrelandGenealogy/
