Show Lightning Causes Fire and T Telephone Damage Sunday Lightning in Sunday afternoons afternoon's afternoons afternoon's afternoons afternoon's after after- noon's electrical storm caused a afire afire afire fire at the Wilford farm west of Manti and caused damage damage damage dam dam- age to electrical equipment at atthe atthe atthe the Manti Telephone exchange Lightning struck truck a stack of baled hay at the feed yard at about p. p pm p.m. m. m causing causing causing caus caus- ing it to burst into flame and i destroying or damaging about of the bales of hay inthe inthe in inthe the stack Corless and James Chapman were working on their farm west of the yards and saw the lightning strike reporting that flames started coming from the stack right af after after after af- af ter the flash The Manti Fire Department was summoned to put the fire out and found lound their pump bandy handy han ban dy as they drew water from the creek to use on the blaze The fire was apparently burning from the bottom of the stack and the space between bales formed a regular flu to urge the blaze on From town it looked as though the fire wason wason was wason on the barn which was between the fire and town A bolt of lightning made manual manual manual man man- ual labor for the Manti telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone operators as it knocked l out their sub-cycle sub machine which handles the ringing and made it necessary to ring all calls by hand The telephone company was able to borrow a spare machine from Nephi andis and andis is using it while theirs is being repaired |