Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1901 — House Wrecked By Lightning. [ARTICLE]

House Wrecked By Lightning.

A house in the extreme northeast part of town occupied by Joseph Lone;, the depot barber, was struck by lightning at about three o’clock p. m. Tuesday. Mrs. Long and her two children were at the home of her parents, who live one door south. The house was quite completely wrecked, the shingles being torn off the south side of the roof, the lightning spreading and running all over the house knocking off all the plastering and tearing the foot of a bedstead upstairs all to pieces.