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Show Lightning In Rural Districts. ' Nine-tenths of the annual mortality from lightning occurs in the rural districts dis-tricts (including under this head all. towns and villages of 2,500 inhabitants inhabi-tants or less). Lightning is one of the principal causes of fires in the-rural the-rural districts, the loss from which might be largely lessened by putting: rods on all barns and Isolated buildings. build-ings. In respect of the number ot deaths -caused by lightning, Nevada comes, first, followed (in order as given) by North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, Colo-rado, Montana and Utah. These-states These-states may be said to comprise our principal thunderstorm belt. The fewest few-est deaths and injuries from lightning: occur in the state of Washington; where storms of the kind are very in--frequent. |