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Show A BOLT FROM THE SKY. Causes the Death of Six Men and Serious Seri-ous Injury of a Score. Lightning struck a house stored with 3,000 pounds of dynamite at the new mines now being opened near Senecaville, Ohio, during a storm, and killed six men and injured a score of others, besides ruining the mine shaft and breaknlg nearly all the windows In Senecaville, a mining town of 300 people, half a mile from the mine. The men killed and wounded were carpenters. When the storm came up the men took refuge in John Saltzbur-ger's Saltzbur-ger's barn, some distance from the mine, and suddenly a blinding flash carte and in an instant the barn was demolished and the men scattered within a radius of 100 feet, over a score bleeding from injuries sustained from heavy rocks torn from the earth and from the timbers from the blacksmith black-smith shop. |