People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1894 — KILLED BY LIGHTNING. [ARTICLE]

KILLED BY LIGHTNING.

Seven Ball Flayers Meet a Frightful Death at De Kalb, Tex. De Kalb, Tex., Aug. 11.— About 3 o’clock Friday afternoon a crowd of boys and men met in a small prairie 9 miles south of town and began to play baseball. A shower came up and they all ran to a large oak. Lightning struck the tree and the following were killed outright: John Jacobs, Walter Atchley, Thomas Blanchard, William Hentley, John Jackson, Chris Petty and William Walse. About a dozen others were hurt and it is thought some of them will die.