Lightning Brings Up Artesian Water
Dallas Morning News
June 8, 1887
Artesian Well Near Lorena
Mr. N.C. Williams, who owns one of the largest farms in [McLennan] county, near Lorena, is authority for the following story:
He says on or about May 25, 1887, one of the severest thunder storms ever known in his section came up. As soon as the storm cleared away, one of his sons had occasion to visit a pasture a short distance from the house. In one part of this pasture, on a small knoll or hillock, on the bank of Cow Bayou, he found the earth torn up as if a keg of giant powder or enough dynamite to blow up a half dozen Russian czars had been touched off under it.
The hole was about four feet in diameter and fully as many feet deep. After examining the spot with wonder and astonishment, he proceeded to cross a branch of Cow Bayou, about fifty yards from where the lightning struck, came upon a stream of clear, cool and delightful water about four inches in diameter flowing out of the ground, where water was never known to flow before. This flow of water started the creek to running for one-half mile below where the spring originated.
Mr. Williams can only account for this most singular phenomenon by the severity of the shock of lightning causing a fissure or rent in the earth, thereby allowing the water to reach the surface. Mr. Williams says this flow of water is worth $5,000 to him, and if it continues in as strong a stream as at present does it will enable him to irrigate fifteen or twenty acres of land on his farm.
June 8, 1887
Artesian Well Near Lorena
Mr. N.C. Williams, who owns one of the largest farms in [McLennan] county, near Lorena, is authority for the following story:
He says on or about May 25, 1887, one of the severest thunder storms ever known in his section came up. As soon as the storm cleared away, one of his sons had occasion to visit a pasture a short distance from the house. In one part of this pasture, on a small knoll or hillock, on the bank of Cow Bayou, he found the earth torn up as if a keg of giant powder or enough dynamite to blow up a half dozen Russian czars had been touched off under it.
The hole was about four feet in diameter and fully as many feet deep. After examining the spot with wonder and astonishment, he proceeded to cross a branch of Cow Bayou, about fifty yards from where the lightning struck, came upon a stream of clear, cool and delightful water about four inches in diameter flowing out of the ground, where water was never known to flow before. This flow of water started the creek to running for one-half mile below where the spring originated.
Mr. Williams can only account for this most singular phenomenon by the severity of the shock of lightning causing a fissure or rent in the earth, thereby allowing the water to reach the surface. Mr. Williams says this flow of water is worth $5,000 to him, and if it continues in as strong a stream as at present does it will enable him to irrigate fifteen or twenty acres of land on his farm.
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