Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1913 — LIGHTNING KILLED THREE GOOD HORSES [ARTICLE]

LIGHTNING KILLED THREE GOOD HORSES

Tom Lamson Lost Animals Valued at $225 Each While Farm Tenant Was Using Disc. Three of the four horses hitched to a disc on the Tom Lamson farm southwest of town were killed by lightning Monday afternoon. The horses were being driven by Omar Fellmy, who lives on the farm. He was not shocked and the fourth horse, a mare, was uninjured. The dead animals were valued at $225 each, one being a mare and the other two draft geldings. They were not insured and the loss will be a severe one to Mr. Lamson.