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Lightning Damages
Amissville Property
In the midst of a gentle rain with no warning of an approaching electrical storm a bolt of lightening struck in the Amissville vicinity Saturday afternoon.
A cedar tree in the Rowzie cemetery, a power transformer, two hundred yards from the ceme-_ tary and an oak tree in the Rowzie yard were damaged.
The lightening ran down the cedar tree and dug a trench over a foot deep in a grave at the base of the tree; then jumped to the iron fence which surrounded the cemetery and ran out from each of the four comers twenty five feet, leaving a furrow of loose earth and sod several inches deep.
In the basement of the Rowzie residence, all of the fuses were blown; one blowing the metal box open was thrown across the room.
Telephone and power service was disrupted several miles away and numerous telephone fuse box covers were blown off the walls of houses.
Eyewitnesses nearby said they had observed a huge cloud of dust ' around the scene of the strike.
People a mile away claimed that a noise similar to a shot gun blast was heard as the charge traveled over the wires.
Telephone and power repairmen were soon on the scene aifcd service was restored by nightfall.
- Mr. and Mrs. George Muth of Washington, D. C. spent the week end at their home, Stone Haven. • .\
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