Struck by Lightning.
On the 26th ult. a lightning shock was felt very generally in the City of Detroit, Mich. The most direct and serious result of the explosion was the partial burning of Fire Enginehouse No. 9 on Alexandrine avenue. The Foreman, D. Broderick, was standing in the west door of the building when the flash came, and not being particularly affected, stepped into the yard to see where the lightning had struck. He immediately became aware that the tower to the Engine-house was on fire, while the roof to the stable was also burning. Meanwhile, the lightning having burned the fire alarm telegraph wire, the stable-door latches were tripped, and, stunned and staggering like drunken men, the horses, seeing their stalls open as usual in case of fire, stumbled forward to their places beside the pole of the chemical engine. Broderick ran back into the house to give an alarm and found the hostler stunned, working in half-dazed fashion to hitch the frightened horses to the machine. The work being accomplished, the engine was drawn into the street, an alarm was turned in from Station No. 125. and within five minutes after the first shock, Broderick had his hosg and pipemen half way up the tower doing all in their power to stop the fire.
On the 26th ult. a lightning shock was felt very generally in the City of Detroit, Mich. The most direct and serious result of the explosion was the partial burning of Fire Enginehouse No. 9 on Alexandrine avenue. The Foreman, D. Broderick, was standing in the west door of the building when the flash came, and not being particularly affected, stepped into the yard to see where the lightning had struck. He immediately became aware that the tower to the Engine-house was on fire, while the roof to the stable was also burning. Meanwhile, the lightning having burned the fire alarm telegraph wire, the stable-door latches were tripped, and, stunned and staggering like drunken men, the horses, seeing their stalls open as usual in case of fire, stumbled forward to their places beside the pole of the chemical engine. Broderick ran back into the house to give an alarm and found the hostler stunned, working in half-dazed fashion to hitch the frightened horses to the machine. The work being accomplished, the engine was drawn into the street, an alarm was turned in from Station No. 125. and within five minutes after the first shock, Broderick had his hosg and pipemen half way up the tower doing all in their power to stop the fire.
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