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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1936
Page
9
May 13 report from here states 28 year old Dewey Bentley is recovering in a hospital from burns after lightning struck as he stood in his doorway with his wife and children. He suffered severe burns to the right arm back and toe and his shirt was ripped off. The wife was stunned but the children were unhurt.
A meteor was reported found 55 miles west of Winston-Salem in Wilkes county. Charles Mathis said highway workers near Roaring River saw a meteor strike a sand clay road last Tuesday and bury itself about nine feet. The hole measured about five feet in diameter.
In Buchanan County Virginia a father was shot and killed by his son near a camp site while a Grundy resident was critically wounded by a Bluefield candy salesman. The victims W C Taylor 42 and John P McCoy Grundy were involved in a dispute at a Slate Creek restaurant. Police arrested W M Gibson 26 of Bluefield following the incident.
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