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Show CORRESPONDENCE Mount Trumbull, Arizona, July 14, 1896. Editor Union: A terrific lightning, thunder and rain storm visited this place today, and the lightning struck a giant tree standing about a block north of the saw mill and went from top to bottom, .hurling one piece that weighed not less than eighty pounds a distance of twenty-six yards. A small fragment frag-ment was pitched up about forty-eight forty-eight yards away from the stump. The crevice made in the tree wound spirally around the tree once and a half, and the remaining remain-ing portion of the tree was shattered shat-tered and blackened and scarred with horrizontol abrazion, plainly showing the power of the vol tic current. The rain and hail descended in torrents throughout the afternoon and night; and flash after flash of lightning was followed by heavy peals of thunder, which, as they rolled through the sky and reverberated rever-berated from hill to hill, made the scene appear a perfect pandemonium. pandemo-nium. During the storm many of "God's first temples" was shivered. The rainy season has begun and the grass is growing beautifully; and we can already notice a in crease in the stature of . the stockmen. stock-men. Yours, Flash Dodger. |