Show lightning I 1 in rural Dat districts rb nine I 1 tenths buths of the annual mortality irom from lightning occur la in the rural dam tricas including under this thia head all towns town bend and villages of 0 2500 2 inkabi tells tanta or less lightning to la one of the principal causes of 0 it fires in the tha rural districts the loss from which might ba largely 1 lessened card by putting rude rods on all barns barn a and isolated build JOE ings in r of the number a 0 deaths death caused d by lightning nevada neada terne cornea first followed in order as given gi I 1 by north dakota south duke dakota colorado do montana mon and ad utah the thesa states in may be ba said bald to comprise our one re principal thunderstorm denu oure bett belt the f fewest III deaths and injuries from franc lightning occur 1 in the tha state of vi N ashington where storma colue of the kind are very or I 1 la frequent |