Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1905 — FATAL ELECTRIC BOLT [ARTICLE]

FATAL ELECTRIC BOLT

Strike* a Man in th* Forahaad and Make* a Widow and] Eight Orphan*. MUCH HAVOC BY THE TEMPEST Wind, Lightning and Bain Leave Their Marks-Bank Stockholders Assessed. Columbus, Ind., May 11. —Lightning •truck the barn of Francis T. Coump on Washington street, in this city, damaging the barn slightly and killing one man and injuring three others. John Fivecoats, 34 years old, married, whose home is at Fairfield, was in.stantly killed. Joseph Pair, L. if. Thompson and Edward Bannister, /all of Columbus, were slightly injured. All of the men were employes* of Coump and were standing in the <j:oorway of the barn waiting for a shower to pass. Pair, who is a mute, wag telling on his fingers that he felt the lightning and had just described the peculiar sensation when the bolt struck the barn, , Struck Square in th* Forehead. Fivecoats was struck tn the forehead and a hole was torn in his hat. The lightning passed through hie body and came out the bottom of one of bls shoes, the shoe being torn to shreds. The other three men were knocked down and were unconscious for some time. Thompson was the first to recover and he went to the assistance of the others. Pair became conscious next, and in about ten minutes be and Thompson succeeded in reviving Bannister. It was seen then that Fivecoats had berti killed. The coroner was called and the body was removed to a local morgue. Fivecoats had finished his work for Coump, and was to have returned to Fairfield, his home, on the next Interurban car. He leaves a wife and eight children. Flood of Balo Noor Bedford. Bedford, Ind., May 11.—This vicinity was visited by a flood of rain. Excessive electric phenomena accompanied the downpour. Garden fields that had been planted and the roadways were badly damaged, some of the fields indicating that thqy will have to be replanted. Reports of considerable live stock killed by lightning in the county are coming in. Storm Bavoe la Madison County. Anderson, Ind., May 11. —A tornado passed over the southeastern portion of Madison county, traversing almost the same path covered by the wind storm of Saturday afternoon. The storm started four miles northwest of Pendleton and near from which point it swept toward the southeast. On the farm of John Gibbons the storm devastated the house in which his wife and son had taken, refuge. Neither occupant was Injured. An orchard and much timber on the farm of John Baughan, northeast of here, were leveled. ASSESSMENT OF STOCKHOLDER* Th*** of th* Ladoga Baah Agrc* to Pay 400 Par Coot. of Th*lr Boldlag* to Pay Depositor*. Crawfordsville, Ind., May 11. A meeting of the stockholders of the defunct Bank of Ladoga was held at the former office of the bank. There were present eleven of the stockholders besides James C. Knox, receiver, and Charles McCabe, attorney. County Auditor B. F. Carman, who acted as secretary, in an authorized statement after the meeting, said that by an unanimous vote a resolution was passed making an assessment of 400 per cent, on all stock liable to assessment, to be paid to the receiver on or before Aug. 1, 1905, to enable him to declare and pay a dividend to the bank’s creditors, tn anticipation of the conversion of the tuink's assets into cash. It is estimated that with this assessment Captain Knox will be enabled to pay a dividend of 50 per cent, on all claims by Aug. 1. The assessment was made by the voluntary action of the stockholders and without a dissenting voice. It is confidently expected that sufficient money can be realized out of the assets of the bank and the claims it has against its debtors to pay all creditors In full without making any further assessment. Preacher Flee* Under Charge*. Vincennes, Ind., May 11. Freelandsville has a church row of serious proportions between Rev. William Schultz and his congregation of 200 families, members of the German Evangelical church. The pastor and his family have fled. At a church trial the pastor was accused of being untruthful, that he swindled some members at horse trading, and that he has decamped with church books and funds. Died a Disappointed Mau. Kokomo, Ind., May 11.—Because he did not live to see the completion of the beautiful Christian church being erected by the Main street congregation, of which he was an elder, J. C. McAlpin, a prominent and wealthy business man of this place, died a disappointed man. The structure was the pride of his heart. Cklengo Strike Hit* th* Fruit Grewor*. New Albany, Ind., May 11. —In the midst of preparations for the shipment of hundreds of car load* of strawberries from this city to Chicago the express agents here have been notified to accept no perishable goods for that city.