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Monday, July 12, 2021

Lightning Strikes Depot, Destroys Semaphore, July 12, 1921

Lightning Strikes Depot

Sunday evening during the heavy rain, a flash of lightning followed by a crash of thunder almost deafening those nearby, struck the depot. It seemed to have first struck the semaphore, breaking it up badly, broke out the lights and ran down the pole to the telegraph instruments, breaking and burning them, burst through a table and scattered things generally. The three groundings of the telegraph, telephone and electric light evidently took care of the charge or it would have very probably torn up the entire building.

From the front page of The Enterprise, Williamston, Martin County, N.C., Tuesday, July 12, 1921. The photo is of a depot with a semaphore that was taken in 1958.

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