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Show , This auinmor scorns to bo n rocord- broakoi in tho lino of floods and ac- cidouts from lightning iu Utah. From all parts of tho stato wo learn of thoso casualltles. A lato number of tho Mt. Pleasant Pyramid tollt Ih addition to tho loss of hundreds of d olltrf s ' worth ' 6f -property;' "ot tfic killing of a number, of animal by being struck by lightning, find tho destruction of a barn containing fifty tons of hay, which was burnod. Tho Fnirvlow Tolophono company also suffored much losa to thoir lino by tho destruction of poloa mu wires. But tho most serious result of tho storm priod iu that part of tho stato, as far as wo havo hoard, was tho doatli of James W. Crisp, a woll known oltiou of Spring City, Sanpoto county, coun-ty, who was crushed to doath under tho wheel of his solf -binder, duo to his toam becoming frightond by an unusually loud clap of thunder. It appears that ho hud boon cutting grain and was obliged to suspoud operations on account of n suddou hoavy shower of rain, and had gono to tho heads of his horses to try to quiot thorn, ns thoy wore vory much frightoned, whon an extra loud clap of thunder causod thorn to break away from all restraint and dash ovor tho drivor, trampling him under thoir foot and dragging tho biudor directly ovor his body. Ho did from his in-jurlos in-jurlos an hour later. |