| Show lightning freaks the salt river elver valley news published at tempe arizona gives the following incidents of a thunder storm at that place on tuesday au gusta patrick white was standing in his doorway looking out on the storm the rest of the family having retired when a thunderbolt struck the ground somewhere near him throwing him out into the rand mud insensible in which candi tiou he lav jay for some time when h he succeeded in crawling house aliouse pat was quite severely shocked dand and was laid up for the next day A curious instance is that the lightning struck the ground leaving the house and trees untouched untouched about fifty chickens ro in a neighboring tree were killed by the shock and singularly enough all the dead chick lers were found next morning on OB one side of the tree those that roosted on the other side aide evidently went unharmed |
