The Ely Miner

Jolted by Lightning Lives to Tell Story

Fertile—A prediction made by a palmist to Frank Klinger came to pass in a sudden and convincing manner when he received a severe jolt during a recent thunder and electrical storm here last week. The palmist had told him that he would soon experience a narrow escape from death—and Frank really had a narrow escape. Just how narrow may be attested to by the fact that the lightning bolt passed through his body, lifted him off the ground and left him temporarily deaf and paralyzed. Mr. Klinger, who is employed as attendant at a local gasoline service station, had his hand on the door of his car which he was about to enter when the bolt struck. The thunder crash was terrific. "I felt as though I were burning up," Mr. Klinger said after. "It was a terrible sensation and one which I hope never to experience again." After a day in the hospital Klinger was back on the job.