Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1916 — LIGHTNING KILLS 12 STEERS [ARTICLE]

LIGHTNING KILLS 12 STEERS

For August R. Schultz of Union Tp. Monday Afternoon. During the storm that hit Rensselaer about 2 o’clock Monday afternoon, lightning struck a wire fence along °the pasture of August R. Schultz of Union tp. and killed 12 head of steers, eight of which were coming three-year-olds and four coming two-year-old. The steers bunched in the corner of the field and three of the animals killed were thrown over or through the fence while one was thrown into a dredge ditch. The loss is estimated by Mr. Schultz at S9OO, partly covered by S4OO insurance. This storm was accompanied by considerable severe lightning and a heavy wind, which blew down the oats and corn badly and also blew over several trees in different sections. Most of the corn will straighten up, but some of the oats are blown too flat to rise up again. The storm came from the northeast, and there was much more rain south and east of town than there was north of town, where it was mostly wind.