Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1909 — Michael Jungles Suffered Loss by Thursday’s Storm. [ARTICLE]

Michael Jungles Suffered Loss by Thursday’s Storm.

Michael Jungles, living near Kniman, lost some cattle sheds In Thursday afternoon’s electrical storm. The sheds were struck by lightning and caught fire and were burned to the ground. George F. Meyers, the real estate dealer, was driving near the Jungles farm when the lightning 'struck the shedß. He describes it as looking very much like a ball of fire, which spread very rapidly notwithstanding the heavy rain and soon enveloped the light frame structure, the rain not retarding it in the least. Ms. Meyers says it was one of the most brilliant electrical storms he ever witnessed. Great flashes of zigzag lightning pierced the sky one after another and in the darkness of the dense clouds shone with great lustre illuminating everything. So general was the lightning that it is rather remarkable that there was not greater damage, but the only cases so far reported are the killing of John Misch and two horses near Wheatfield and the burning of the Jungles cow sheds.