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Show LIB KILLS BOY IAD CHEYENNE Cheyenne, Wyo., Aug. 15. Rodger Sutton, 10 years of age, was instantly killed, Edwin Ridley, 12, badly burned burn-ed and four others severely shocked yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock when lightning struck a little country schoolhouse ten miles northeast of Cheyenne. Funeral services for the Sutton child have been hefd today. The bolt struck the schoolhouse, which is known as the Ridley school, during a severe hailstorm. This storm was in progress at 4 o'clock, the hour for dismissing school, and Mrs. Amanda Kutzleb, the teacher, declined declin-ed to permit her five pupils, the two boys named and Hothelda and Belle Ridley and Verne Sutton, to start for home, stating that they would stay in the schoolhouse all night if necessary. nec-essary. As the storm Increased in intensity and the little schoolhouse was subjected sub-jected to a terrific bombardment by hall, Mrs. Kutzleb instructed the two boys to sit down on the floor next to a wall away from drafts, while she gathered the girls about her at .her desk. They were thus disposed when the bolt struck a corner of the building, build-ing, boring a hole two inches in diameter diam-eter in the roof and dislodging a square yard of plaster. The teacher and the five pupils all were stunned, Mrs. Kutzleb was the first to recover She found the Sutton and Ridley boys on the floor, the former dead, surrounded sur-rounded by fallen plaster, and the little girls crouched about her desk. on |