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Show STRUCK TWICE IN THE SAME PLACE. The News of Aug. 9th relates the following: On Sunday evening, at the commencement of the storm that prevailed over this valley, Mrs. Ince, of Big Cottonwood Ward, observed, immediately after the first thunder clap, that the wheat shocks in the rear and immediate vicinity of the house had ignited and were enveloped in flame. She with a number of other parties, rushed to the spot and commenced to extinguish the fire. While this way engaged the lightning struck the same spot a second time, scattering the ashes all over the people and giving them a terrible fright, Mrs Ince being slightly shocked. Fortunately no body was injured to any extent. This incident appears to develop something "new under the sun," a universal theory having heretofore existed to the effect that the electric fluid would never strike the same place twice. |