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Show I PECULIAR FREAKS OF LIGHTNING IN HOUSE NEAR MIDDLETON, IDAHO Special to The Tribune. MIDDLETON, Ida., July 10. Perhaps the following account of lightning freaks is one of the most remarkable which has ever been known to occur In this part of the country. On July 13 Mrs. Snyder, together with her daughter and daughter-in-law, left their home In Ada county, about twenty-two twenty-two miles west of Boise, early In the morning, to go to Emmltt, Payette county, coun-ty, to gather fruit, and, owing to a severe rainstorm occurring, they did not return until late at night. But in the meantime mean-time tho lightning had played havoc within with-in their dwelling, some miles away. When they got home they found that the lightning had entered the house and had come In contact with the Iron bedstead, bed-stead, completely destroying all of the bed clothes. Next It found Its way Into the wardrobe, and there turned all of tho clothes Into a, heap of ashes. Perhaps the most pocullar thing It did, however, was to onter a covered zinc trunk and scorch all of Its contents. Within this trunk there was a closed leather case containing a steel razor, and, when examined. It looked as though It had been- in somo Intense heat, tho blade being out of shape, Indicating that It had been molten. The leatherette case, on the other hand, was hardly markd. A piano stood In the same room, but was uninjured. It Is supposed that the lightning entered the house by means of a wire clothes-line which was connected with It and the chicken-coop. An iin'cst (gallon showed that over six feet of this wire had entirely disappeared, and at tho place whero It was connected with the house tho boards and plaster wero torn down, as If some one had chopped them with an ax. |