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Show Bolt Knocks 4 I Youths Stiff BEACON, N. Y., July 17 (U.P) A bolt of lightning flashed down a stove pipe and across a room in a cottage in which four youth were sitting at Fishkill. They were thrown into the air and struck senseless. When they recovered consciousness they found themselves completely par-i par-i alyzed, unable to move even their eyes. After a while the youths regained regain-ed the use of their muscles sufficiently suf-ficiently to crawl out into the rain. They lay in, the mud until they could crawl to their automobile. '. They drove .together, one man releasing the brakes, one manipulating manipu-lating the throttle, a third steer-' steer-' ing. Frederick Evans and John Mc-Lain Mc-Lain were taken home after treatment. treat-ment. Franklin Lorenger and Edward Ed-ward Lyon remained for treatment at a hospital. |