Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1888 — A BIG STORM. [ARTICLE]

A BIG STORM.

A severe storm visited this region Tuesday nignt, lasting, with a few intermissions, nearly the whole night. There was a big rain-fall, much wind and a prodigious electric storm. In fact manyjpeo pie think they never knew a storm with so much thunder and lightning. The damage done by the storm is considerable, as uncut oats are laid flat, and will be bar vested with difficulty, and much of the growing corn is also broken down. Hay, &ut but not stacked, will also be more or less damaged. During tlie storm, probably about nine o’clock, the lightning struck and killed two good mares on D. C. Bond’s farm, a mile north of town. One of them was a valuablebrood mare, the property of Mr. Bond, and worth at least S2OO. The other was the property of John Ice, a young man who lives on the farm, and was worth about SIOO. Ice is a poor man and the killing of his mare is a serious loss. A subscription paper , for his benefit was circulated in town yesterday, considerable success.

The most disastrous result of the storm, in the county, so far as reported, was the burning, by lightning, of John Burger’s barn, near Remington. It was a large and valuable barn and contained large quatitiesn of grain and hay and two hay presses, all of which -ware dpmtrnypfl.—=— ■-