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Show Lightning. A dispatch from Beaver Buys that at 2 p.m. on Monday lightning entered en-tered she residence of Mrs. Perintha T. Oakden, through the cornice, being attacted by a carpenter's square which hung on the wall. The lightning light-ning pasfed from the square to a revolver re-volver that hung with the muzzle against the wall, tore another large hole, passed through the floor to the room below, where it toot a piece about three inches square off the top of a sewing machine and passed out of a window. The window casing was terribly torn and shattered and five paneB of glass were entirely broken out, and another was cracked. The lightning passed from the window win-dow to a large, green cottonwood tree, standing eight feet from the ground, and slivered it to the roots. Mrs. O-ikden and four others had iust passed from the lower room to another when the lightning struck the house. The shock waa so strone that fourol the persona were knocked to the floor by it. No one was injured. |