Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1915 — Lightning Destroyed Barn On the Farm of Job English. [ARTICLE]

Lightning Destroyed Barn On the Farm of Job English.

The bam on the Job English farm in Newton township -was destroyed by lightning Sunday afternoon. The farm tenant is Lee Mauck and his loss on the contents of the bam was about S6OO, which was covered by insurance in R. D. Thompson’s agency. The bam was valued at about SI,OOO and was entirely burned. It was insured also. Lightning struck a tree 15 feet from the bam and the building was ignited by the bolt. A. L. Clark was in Morocco Sunday and reports a hard rain and lightning storm there. One house was shattered but the persons in it were not injured.