Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1909 — MAN KILLED BY LIGHTNING [ARTICLE]

MAN KILLED BY LIGHTNING

John Misch of Near Wheatfield The Victim. TWO HORSES ALSO KILLED Which He Was Driving From the Field Thursday Afternoon When The Deadly Bolt Struck Them— Deceased Was a Prominent Young Man and a Newphew of Sheriff L. P. Shirer. v*Lightning claimed another victim in the north part of the county during the storm Thursday afternoon, which was particularly severe in that section. The victim was John Misch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Misch, highly esteemed residents of near Wheatfield. As near as we could gather yes terday morning, the unfortunate young man and his brother were plowing in a field when the storm came up. They tinhitehed to go to the house, John driving three horses, the brother being ahead of him with his team. A bolt of lightning came and killed John and two of the horses. "4 The victim *of the lightning’s fury was about 28 years of age and unmarried. He was the second child of a family of five children of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Misch, all of whom except Henry, the assessor of Wheatfield tp., who only a week ago went to Oklahoma to work with a government engineering gang, reside at home. His mother is a sister of County Sheriff L. P. Shirer, who went to Wheatfield yesterday afternoon to lend his assistance to the bereaved family and attend the funeral. At the hour of going to press we were unable to learn when the funeral will be held, but it may be delayed a little in order that Henry can return from Oklahoma. This death from lightning makes three or four fatalities from the same cause that has occurred in northern Jasper in the last ten or a dozen years.