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Adlington, a colt belonging to Ralph Shaw was drowned by 

 the flood. At Blackrod, Joseph France, aged forty years, 

 was engaged with another man in sinking a shaft at a colliery, 

 when the water rushed so suddenly into it that he could not 

 be got out and was drowned. 



At Burnden the head gearing of a chain belonging to a coal- 

 pit of Mr. Scowcroft's was struck by the lightning and da- 

 maged ; and in the same neighbourhood, a chimney-piece in 

 the house of Thomas Braughton was struck and shattered. 



At West Houghton, a large stack of hay belonging to 

 Thomas Woods was set on fire, but soon extinguished. 



At Adlington, the electric fluid entered a house where a 

 woman, and her five children were sitting, and after breaking 

 a looking-glass that hung over her head, and destroying the 

 chimney ornaments, it left the house without injuring any of 

 the inmates. 



At Horwich, the electric fluid entered the house of Mr. 

 Welsh, broke a large mirror and sundry other articles, and 

 struck a boy twelve years of age, who afterwards lay in a pre- 

 carious state for some time. 



At Dobhill, to the west of Bolton, a cow t belonging to Peter 

 Boardman was killed in a field by the lightning. 



At Lostock, Ralph Shaw had a foal killed in a field from 

 the same cause. 



James Lathom, also of Lostock, had a three-years old colt 

 and a horse both killed by the lightning. 



At Belmont, a cow belonging to Benjamin Helme was killed 

 by the lightning on the road near to the church. 



At Hindley, a valuable cow belonging to John Battersby, 

 of Castle Hill, was killed whilst grazing in a field with nine 

 others. 



At Horrocks Fold Farm, two girls, named Alice Makinson 

 of Preston, and Ellen Longworth of Horwich, were sitting in 

 the kitchen with four other persons, when the electric fluid 

 came down the outside of the chimney, through the roof and 

 the floor, and struck Alice Makinson dead on the spot: the 

 fluid hit her on the shoulder, and passing down her body tore 

 the sole from one of her clogs in its resistless progress. There 

 were no appearances on the body of the other girl, Ellen 

 Longworth, of having been struck by lightning, but she was 

 taken out of the kitchen in a state of insensibility ; and though 

 she revived a little, and was restored to consciousness, she 

 only lingered until five o'clock the next morning, when she 

 died. 



These instances of the destructive violence of the storm 

 occurred chiefly to the north-west and west of Bolton, between 



