Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1901 — Lightning Burns a Barn. [ARTICLE]

Lightning Burns a Barn.

Late last Tuesday afternoon, when a few drops of rain fell in Rensselaer, there was quite a severe local thunderstorm north and northeast of town, a few miles, near enough in fact that the rolling of the thunder was plainly heard here. An unfortunate incident of the storm was that lightning struck the barn of Aleck Hurley in Barkley tp., and that and its contents were burned. Among the contents thus lost was a good team of horses, also a carriage, harness, etc. The loss is a severe one to a man in Mr. Hurley’s circumstances. There was quite a hail storm in some parts of the track of the thunder storm, but there was little damage it could do now.