Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1901 — Close Shot at George Wilcox. [ARTICLE]

Close Shot at George Wilcox.

Trustee George M. Wilcox of Newton Tp., had a pretty close call from the lightning, about 6 o’clock Thursday morning. He was driving down from Surrey on his way to the joint commencement at Fountain Park and when passing Arthur Trussel’s place, 2$ miles north of town, the lightning struck and splintered to pieces a Halleck telephone pole, right beside him, almost. It also splintered up two or three other poles further along, and thre ft the fragments in every direction. It soared Mr. Wilcox’s horses, whatever it did to Wilcox, and they ran about a quarter of a mile before he could control them.