The home of Dorothy and Clarence Burrell near Elam was ■xploded by a bolt of lighting Monday evening at 7:57 p. m. The tune was marked exactly, bn •ause the clock in the kitchen topped dead, and hasn’t started sunning yet. There were seven people in the wo story frame home when the ■xplosion occurred and no one was •eriousl.v injured. Besides the 3urreH s there were present their on, David Booker, an uncle, Frank •Vomack. and Sidney and Joan 3reen and their two year old son. 3idney, Jr , The baby received a ■tit on the head and a bruised ye and Clarence Burrell was cut >r bunted on the leg. "It was just 1 ke an explosion.” said Dorothy. When it hit she was n the front livingroom. It stun ned everyone in the house for a ew moments. She said as soon as she saw the lights were Out, she started upstairs for a flashlight. vVhen she got to the top of the stairs, she saw during another flash of lightning, that the entire loor was ripped up. and she could not get to the flashlight. In the meantime those down stairs were fumbling around in he darkness The devastation was even more complete downstairs, .is ceiling, walls and floors were ipped and torn.

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