Lightning Strikes Trinity Church - historical archive

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Muscatine-Trinity.org is building a text and graphic-based archive of this event, and invite everyone who has anything to share, be it poems, photos, videos, whatever, to share it with us by emailing it to Rev. Cathi Bencken, Executive Secretary Diana Wilson, and webmasters Jack Haller and Andrew Hector.

Lightning strikes crumbles 159-year-old church steeple in Muscatine

MUSCATINE, Iowa-The Rev. Cathi Bencken managed to crack a joke this morning after an apparent lightning strike zapped an iron cross and crumbled the steeple at Trinity Episcopal Church at 211 Walnut St.

"I don't think it was (because) of anything I said," she said of the sermon she delivered Sunday.

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