Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1907 — HORSE KILLED BY LIGHTNING. [ARTICLE]

HORSE KILLED BY LIGHTNING.

Oppie Wolf drove out to George Borntrager’s, 3 miles south of town, Wednesday forenoon to look at some stock for his employer, Jake Eiglesbach. He had got out of the rig and hitched the team to the rear of a wagon standing near the barn and gotten some twenty feet away when a bolt of lightning came down and struck a tree near the team, glanced off and killed one of the bay team of ponies outright and So badly stunned the other that it is not over it yet and may never fully recover. The stroke also split the wagon pole of the wagon to which the team was tied from end to end. Oppie was somewhat stunned by the stroke as was Mr. Borntrager, who was standing in the barn with his baby in his arms. The storm was apparently all over when this deadly stroke came. Jake had been offered $l5O for the horse that was killed only a few days before. The team was insured and be will probably get about SIOO insurance.