Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1916 — Electrical Storm Friday Killed Fowler Farm Hand. [ARTICLE]

Electrical Storm Friday Killed Fowler Farm Hand.

An electrical storm which occurred throughout the state Friday morning caused four deaths in the state. A lightening bolt which killed Dennis Brummit, a farm hand near Fowler, on a road seven miles southeast of that city caused scores to visit the scene of the tradgedy.. The lightening not only killed Brummit and his team of horses and tore his wagon to bits, but it opened a hole in the road eight feet in diameter and four feet deep. Brummit was hauling stone for the construction & a new road. The lightening tore the clothing from his body, the largest peice remaining being a fragment of his rain coat about a-J’oot square.