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Show MAN PINCHED BY LIGHTNING Marylander Victim of Quc.r Accident While Seated on a Chair During a Storm. Rising Sun, Md. To be pinched by lightning where a man frequently strikes a match was an occurrence that William Conner of Greenhurst, this county, does not care to have repeated. re-peated. He was sitting on a chair, dining with the family of James Armour, Ar-mour, during a storm, when lightning struck the house. The seat of the chair split and closed again, catching Connor by the flesh. The chair had to be broken before he could be released. Everyone at the table felt the shock and the house was considerably damaged. dam-aged. Near the bridge to Harry England's creamery, lightning struck a telephone pole, flashed across a road to a plow point that lay inside a fence and knocked it down the field for a distance dis-tance of 30 feet, making a furrow as it went. |