Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1907 — Death Travels Over Clothes Wire. [ARTICLE]

Death Travels Over Clothes Wire.

St. Paul, Minn., June 26.—Mrs. Clara M. Lemon and her son, Clarence, aged 14, were killed by lightning late In the afternoon. They were taking the family washing from the clothes line when lightning struck one of the trees to which the wire line was attached, ran along the wire, and instantly killed both the woman and her son. ~ ' >