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Show fUcbtatns: cwoaoa I 'sale. During a severe storm lightning struck a telephone pole at the little hamlet of Bateeyville. in the southern part of Louisiana, wrecking a telephone tele-phone box in the store of A. Gaut-reaux Gaut-reaux and exploding both barrels of a ahotgun which waa standing near the telephone. The gun was loaded with buckshot and the charges tore a big hole In the side of tbe little building, narrowly missing a crowd of men who had taken refuge from the storm there. The flash ao startled Prudent Ayer. a workman In a shingle mill nea rtac Gautreaux store, that he seized a rapidly revolving circular saw, losing two fingers and otherwise badly mangling mang-ling his band. |