Lightning struck on top of the southwest corner of the Hinton Building, the city’s most imposing commercial structure, Sunday afternoon, knocking as many as a hod full of bricks to the street, four stories below. The falling bricks did considerable damage to the telephone wires, breaking cables loose. It was fortunate that none of the dislocated wires were tangled with the naked high power electric wires that are strung up Main Street, waiting to be crossed with the lighter telephone and electric wires. The damage to the building probably will not exceed $50.
From The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Aug. 17, 1923
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