Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1914 — DEATH. [ARTICLE]

DEATH.

Whltehoupe'iN J. —When an old sword was hurled from the wail to a bed where he w&s\oleeplng when lightning struck the Meftwdist parsonage, Donald Trumbower, son pf the minister, escaped by a narrow xnargtn and would have been uninjured had he not grasped the weapon. He was fcadr, ly burned on the hands by the metal <of the sword, which he grabbed as he Reaped from the bed <aa it had been Seated by the electric bolt. | JTbe lightning threw a big picture I across the room, tore several relics ! of the Revolutionary War from the walls cared In one side pt the house and ripped a furrow across the lawn.