One George Adams, about 19 years of age, was struck with lightning, while out hauling oats, about 3 o'clock, in the afternoon.
He had driven home from the field and had begun to pitch the oats off the wagon to one C. W. Ellis, who was stacking for him. Shortly after they had begun their work a stroke of lightning struck young Adams and instantly killed him and knocked Mr. Ellis off the stack, killing one of the oxen they were working, and setting fire to the oats, and would have burned the dead man, only that the party who was stacking regained his consciousness in time to get the deceased out of the way and loosen the ox that was not killed.
The young man that was killed had his clothes split into strings and had his shoes torn open.
He had driven home from the field and had begun to pitch the oats off the wagon to one C. W. Ellis, who was stacking for him. Shortly after they had begun their work a stroke of lightning struck young Adams and instantly killed him and knocked Mr. Ellis off the stack, killing one of the oxen they were working, and setting fire to the oats, and would have burned the dead man, only that the party who was stacking regained his consciousness in time to get the deceased out of the way and loosen the ox that was not killed.
The young man that was killed had his clothes split into strings and had his shoes torn open.
One George Adams, about 19 years of age, was struck with lightning, while out hauling oats, about 3 o'clock, in the afternoon.
He had driven home from the field and had begun to pitch the oats off the wagon to one C. W. Ellis, who was stacking for him. Shortly after they had begun their work a stroke of lightning struck young Adams and instantly killed him and knocked Mr. Ellis off the stack, killing one of the oxen they were working, and setting fire to the oats, and would have burned the dead man, only that the party who was stacking regained his consciousness in time to get the deceased out of the way and loosen the ox that was not killed.
The young man that was killed had his clothes split into strings and had his shoes torn open.
He had driven home from the field and had begun to pitch the oats off the wagon to one C. W. Ellis, who was stacking for him. Shortly after they had begun their work a stroke of lightning struck young Adams and instantly killed him and knocked Mr. Ellis off the stack, killing one of the oxen they were working, and setting fire to the oats, and would have burned the dead man, only that the party who was stacking regained his consciousness in time to get the deceased out of the way and loosen the ox that was not killed.
The young man that was killed had his clothes split into strings and had his shoes torn open.
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