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Show DEATH IN PATH OF STORM. Several Pennsylvanlans Killed b Lightning, and Crops Ruined by Hall. Pittsburg, Pa. From many points In western Pennsylvania como reports ot death and damage, by sovcro thunder thun-der chowers nnd electrical storms Sunday. Sun-day. At Monongnhcla the storm was accompanied by a high wind that uprooted up-rooted trees nnd blow down mnny buildings. A number of residences wero struck by lightning, tho tele-graph tele-graph service wns put out of commission commis-sion nnd Rflvcrnl thousand dollars' worth of damage was done. At Reaver Falls hailstones ot Immense Im-mense slzo fell, doing great damago to windows, fruit trees and crops. At Klttnnlng, James Mitchell nnd his lC-ycar-old son, who wero sitting on a porch, wero struck nnd killed by lightning, nnd tho houso wns sot on fire. Others of tho family wero tunned nnd neighbors camo to their nsslstnnco In tlmo to rescue them from tho flnmcs. At Punxsutawney, Clydo Dlosc, ngod 18, nnd nort Welse, nged 20, wero killed by lightning whllo stnndlng In tho doorwny of a barn. Lacld Tilosc, a brother of Clyde, wns nlso struck, and is not expected to live. |