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Show LIGHTNING STRIKES MAN'S HIP POCKET : MANSFIELD CKNTER, Coea, Auf. 2i. A belt of lightning threw itself late the hip pocket af Joseph Barrow, a farmer, as bs wa sitting; la tha hit-chea hit-chea af hia noma her last Bight. The belt came into th house via the stove pip aad was attracted to Barrow' hip poetet by the presence there of aa iron monkey wrench aad a big Jackknife. It passed dowa hia leg, burning him severely, se-verely, aad thsa careened over the floor, upsetting a tub of water aad splitting a huge chopping block. In Barrow 7s pocket the end of the wrench and tha blade of the haife were fused into a solid piece of steeL ' |