George Curry's Children Survive Lightning Strike, October 1920

News of the miraculous escape from death by lightning of several young children of George Curry, colored, a tenant on a farm near Monroe, has been received here. According to reports, a stroke of lightning came down the chimney of the house, while George and his wife were away, striking the bed on which the children were laying. The bed clothes caught fire, but the children escaped injury. An older boy had the presence of mind to carry the buring clothes out of the house, and he also succeeded in extinguishing the flames that spread to the paper plastered on the walls. a pair of shoes, laying near the fireplace, was also torn to pieces by the lightning. How the children escaped death is almost a miracle. (From the Monroe Journal, October 8, 1920)