Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1911 — Bam Struck By Lightning. [ARTICLE]

Bam Struck By Lightning.

During the storm Thursday morning John Remley’s barn in the north part of the city, was struck by lightning and the whole upper north end was torn to kindling wood and the'pieces scattered about for a radius of forty or fifty feet. The lower part of the north side was ripped loose and badly broken up, nec - essitating the removal of the boards. A peculiar phase of the stroke was that the barn was packed almost full of straw but it did not catch fire, although chips of the wood were thrown all over the straw. The bain is fully covered by insurance in the C. B. agency.