Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1878 — Lightning Shattering a Monument. [ARTICLE]

Lightning Shattering a Monument.

In the terrific thunder-storm yesterday, the splendid marble monument erected in the old Methodist cemetery several years ago to the memory of the Confederate dead was struck by lightning. The marble eagle surmounting the monument was shivered into fragments, and the entire monument, from top to bottom, so badly damaged as tc render it dangerons to approach it, as it is liable to fall at any moment. burg News.