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Show Lightning Strikes Southeast Home Monday evening's rain storm' will be one to be long remembered remember-ed by one southeast family the Roswell H. Coon family, 2200 E. 3380 South in East Mill Creek. About 6 p.m. a bolt of lightning struck the ridgepole of the house, stunning the family, knocking out electric and telephone tele-phone service, but inflicting only minor damaee to the house itself A two-story home of shake shingle structure, the building bore scars of the charge on the west peak of the roof and on the side of a dormer where the-bolt the-bolt apparently shot clear through the upper floor. It hit a disconnected radio antenna an-tenna which was grounded, a fact that probably saved the house from fire damage. Less than five feet from where the bolt struck, Grant Coon, 24, was lying on his bed. Three feet over his head the bolt blasted a small hole in the ceiling. Plaster and wall paper were ripped from a strip six inches wide, two feet long in the adjacent adja-cent bathroom. Across the hall and along the same beam which seemed to center the bolt's force, a chunk of plaster and another bit of wallpaper were torn loose. On the stairway a hole the size of a large caliber bullet hole was punched in the lath and plaster wall surface. J Mr. Coon was in the living room with his younger son, LaMar Coon, 20, when "it sounded sound-ed like the entire house was falling fall-ing around our heads." Mrs. Coon was resting in a first floor bedroom. An electrician, called to inspect in-spect the wiring in the eight-year-old house immediately after the lightning struck, said the electrical units were undamaged except that all fuses were blown. Damage to the house is cover ed by insurance, Mr. Coon said. |