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Show FREAK 0FL1GHTN1NC IN -HEW I'iEXICO ' MELROSE, n! 'M.; June aJU-Three miles south of town, at S o'clock yesterday, yes-terday, lightning picked one maa from a group of three in n wagon, killing him and hia team instantly.. The man waa Orant' Watkln of St. Louie, traveling with a ahow troupe that had closed tha season aad was going back to Kncino. He waa aitting on a Winchester rifle in a ease. The lightning burned holes in the case, passed through a box of clothing aad burned bolea in the elothee. Watkins fell dead in the arms of his mates, Wilbnr Hall aad Clarence Me Connell. The latter wera rendered unconscious. un-conscious. In another wagoa, twenty-five twenty-five yards distant, the occupanta wera stunned, . " - |