Article appears in the Abilene Daily Reflector, Abilene, Kansas, Saturday, 22 June 1889 reads...
SLAIN IN AN OLD SHED
A Flash of Lightning Kills a Farmer and His Team - His Hired Man's Narrow Escape
Liberty, Missouri, June 22 - During the heavy rain storm Thursday afternoon about four o'clock Robert Bush, a farmer who lived four miles west of here, and a hired man with a team of horses, took refuge in an old shed when lightning struck it, killing Bush and the two horses and rendering the hired man unconscious. The hired man did not regain consciousness until dark when he found himself pinioned to the ground by the body of one of the horses and the neck of the other lying across his legs and hips, while the cold form of his companion lay by his side. He could not extricate himself, but after regaining sufficient strength began crying for help. His cries attracted the attention of two farmers living near who released him. Bush and the two animals were dead and the hired man's condition is critical as he is suffering from the effects of the shock and the horses falling on him. He lay under them over three hours. Bush's remains were buried yesterday afternoon. He was thirty two years of age and leaves a wife and three children.
Liberty Tribune 28 June 1889
Acme - Many friends and relatives attended the funeral and burial of Robert Bush, who was killed by lightning last Thurs. He leaves a widow and 3 children, the oldest, a boy, aged 5.
Liberty Tribune 12 July 1889
Obit - Robert Bush, whose death occurred on the 20th June by a fatal stroke of lightning. Funeral services were held at Little Shao. He was born in Clay Co., 22 May 1856 and married Miss Celia K. Pharis, dau of William Pharis, dec'd, of Clark Co., KY., 14 Sept 1881. He was a son of N. B. and Mary T. Bush of this county and leaves his wife, two sons and a dau.
SLAIN IN AN OLD SHED
A Flash of Lightning Kills a Farmer and His Team - His Hired Man's Narrow Escape
Liberty, Missouri, June 22 - During the heavy rain storm Thursday afternoon about four o'clock Robert Bush, a farmer who lived four miles west of here, and a hired man with a team of horses, took refuge in an old shed when lightning struck it, killing Bush and the two horses and rendering the hired man unconscious. The hired man did not regain consciousness until dark when he found himself pinioned to the ground by the body of one of the horses and the neck of the other lying across his legs and hips, while the cold form of his companion lay by his side. He could not extricate himself, but after regaining sufficient strength began crying for help. His cries attracted the attention of two farmers living near who released him. Bush and the two animals were dead and the hired man's condition is critical as he is suffering from the effects of the shock and the horses falling on him. He lay under them over three hours. Bush's remains were buried yesterday afternoon. He was thirty two years of age and leaves a wife and three children.
Liberty Tribune 28 June 1889
Acme - Many friends and relatives attended the funeral and burial of Robert Bush, who was killed by lightning last Thurs. He leaves a widow and 3 children, the oldest, a boy, aged 5.
Liberty Tribune 12 July 1889
Obit - Robert Bush, whose death occurred on the 20th June by a fatal stroke of lightning. Funeral services were held at Little Shao. He was born in Clay Co., 22 May 1856 and married Miss Celia K. Pharis, dau of William Pharis, dec'd, of Clark Co., KY., 14 Sept 1881. He was a son of N. B. and Mary T. Bush of this county and leaves his wife, two sons and a dau.
Article appears in the Abilene Daily Reflector, Abilene, Kansas, Saturday, 22 June 1889 reads...
SLAIN IN AN OLD SHED
A Flash of Lightning Kills a Farmer and His Team - His Hired Man's Narrow Escape
Liberty, Missouri, June 22 - During the heavy rain storm Thursday afternoon about four o'clock Robert Bush, a farmer who lived four miles west of here, and a hired man with a team of horses, took refuge in an old shed when lightning struck it, killing Bush and the two horses and rendering the hired man unconscious. The hired man did not regain consciousness until dark when he found himself pinioned to the ground by the body of one of the horses and the neck of the other lying across his legs and hips, while the cold form of his companion lay by his side. He could not extricate himself, but after regaining sufficient strength began crying for help. His cries attracted the attention of two farmers living near who released him. Bush and the two animals were dead and the hired man's condition is critical as he is suffering from the effects of the shock and the horses falling on him. He lay under them over three hours. Bush's remains were buried yesterday afternoon. He was thirty two years of age and leaves a wife and three children.
Liberty Tribune 28 June 1889
Acme - Many friends and relatives attended the funeral and burial of Robert Bush, who was killed by lightning last Thurs. He leaves a widow and 3 children, the oldest, a boy, aged 5.
Liberty Tribune 12 July 1889
Obit - Robert Bush, whose death occurred on the 20th June by a fatal stroke of lightning. Funeral services were held at Little Shao. He was born in Clay Co., 22 May 1856 and married Miss Celia K. Pharis, dau of William Pharis, dec'd, of Clark Co., KY., 14 Sept 1881. He was a son of N. B. and Mary T. Bush of this county and leaves his wife, two sons and a dau.
SLAIN IN AN OLD SHED
A Flash of Lightning Kills a Farmer and His Team - His Hired Man's Narrow Escape
Liberty, Missouri, June 22 - During the heavy rain storm Thursday afternoon about four o'clock Robert Bush, a farmer who lived four miles west of here, and a hired man with a team of horses, took refuge in an old shed when lightning struck it, killing Bush and the two horses and rendering the hired man unconscious. The hired man did not regain consciousness until dark when he found himself pinioned to the ground by the body of one of the horses and the neck of the other lying across his legs and hips, while the cold form of his companion lay by his side. He could not extricate himself, but after regaining sufficient strength began crying for help. His cries attracted the attention of two farmers living near who released him. Bush and the two animals were dead and the hired man's condition is critical as he is suffering from the effects of the shock and the horses falling on him. He lay under them over three hours. Bush's remains were buried yesterday afternoon. He was thirty two years of age and leaves a wife and three children.
Liberty Tribune 28 June 1889
Acme - Many friends and relatives attended the funeral and burial of Robert Bush, who was killed by lightning last Thurs. He leaves a widow and 3 children, the oldest, a boy, aged 5.
Liberty Tribune 12 July 1889
Obit - Robert Bush, whose death occurred on the 20th June by a fatal stroke of lightning. Funeral services were held at Little Shao. He was born in Clay Co., 22 May 1856 and married Miss Celia K. Pharis, dau of William Pharis, dec'd, of Clark Co., KY., 14 Sept 1881. He was a son of N. B. and Mary T. Bush of this county and leaves his wife, two sons and a dau.
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