A house struck by electric fluid, bell wires burnt out but plaster more or less unscathed.....
"A pillar of fire, exceedingly vivid and apparently the thickness of a man's arm" between sea and sky where it spread out with “splendid coruscations followed by a terrific peal of thunder”. Not a performance of Elijah in the St Just Wesleyan but an electrical storm.....
It's two o'clock in the afternoon at St Michael's Mount, the tide has just started to flow, when suddenly the sea level rises by about six feet. It falls away then, 10 minutes later, rises again and again by six feet. And not just at the Mount, St Ives, Newlyn, Penzance all report the same occurence............