Show work on friday night june three men were struck by lightning at a smelter near butte montana their names were frank lasby john mckay and charles stewart they had been engaged at wheeling in the yard and J had stepped stepped to the the doorway daring the storm when a bolt struck a all il three physicians were sent for and found that the men appeared to be sensible of all that was going on around them but they wert were completely paralyzed their flesh being ble bie to the touch efforts were corn com fenced toward their restoration j thou though ah in lasbyd case they seemed seemed doubtful of success At Corona Co labout 9 pm day there were heavy clouds away to the south but overhead the sky was clear and bright and no prospect of an immediate storm A young man named fred dunne was out on the prairie with some others finishing up some work for the night when the men at the mess wagon were startled by a vivid flash of lightning which seemed to hurl a bolt to the earth in ther their immediate vicinity almost at the same instant didline danne was seen to fall from his horse and a second later the animal fell to the ground running to tae the spot man was found to have been struck by the bolt in the top of his head making a deep hole as large as a hall halt dollar his death was instantaneous the lightning tore his cloths claths into i shreds and scattered it over the plains and nothing was left on him but bat his boots coins which were in his pocket had bee been scattered around for a considerable sid erable distance two of the men who were about sixty yards distant were numbed and dazed by the same shock but they recovered in a few minutes mi nates |