Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1919 — Five Persons Die In Storm. [ARTICLE]

Five Persons Die In Storm.

Fort Wayne, Aug. 8. —Three men are dead as the result of a severe rain and electrical storm that swept over Allen county and northern Indiana. Trees were uprooted in a gale that accompanied the downpour, and much damage was done crops in places. The names of the persons killed, all of whom were struck by lightning, are; Charles Mosher, Oakland, Cal., wagonman with Ringling Brothers’ circus, which was showing here; Joseph Levy, a farmer, and Herbert Reed, a clerk. During tlie severe electrical and wind storm at Marion Thomas Ryan, age sixty, a prominent citizen, was instantly killed. Roy Bowen, age twenty-nine, living at Grandview, Spencer county, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. Bowen was thrashing wheat on the farm of John Brand, near the Silverdale schoolhouse when lightning struck him. He is survived by the widow and two small children.