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Detroit Free Press
Tuesday, 16 June 1868

         The Ionia Democrat learns that on Friday last the
       5th, during the thunder storm, a man named WILLIAM
       ORT, living in the village of Greenville, Montcalm
       county, was instantly killed by lightning while lay-
       ing on his bed. His wife, who was sitting by the bed-
       side, received a shock, and was thrown partially upon
       the bed, and a little child who was lying upon MRS.
       ORT'S breast, had her hair singed, but escaped with
       no further injury. The electric fluid, it appears,
       passed down the stove pipe to the kitchen stove,
       where it separated, one part of it passing into the
       bedroom where the unfortunate man was lying, killing
       a dog in its passage. Another branch passed downward
       through the floor, while the threshold of the door
       on one side and the door frame on the other were torn
       to splinters. The deceased leaves a wife and three
       small children in destitute circumstances.
       
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