Lawrenceburg, Indiana Storm
February 1832
Near this time [February
1832] there occurred an accident that cast a
gloom over the town. The little log-house
erected on the southwest corner of High and
Walnut Streets, by
William Morgan, was still standing,
and in it was kept a store by
Darragh & Askew;
adjoining on High Street,
Mr. John L. Bishop
had erected a brick building for a saddler shop,
and run up a fire wall next to the log building.
One evening during a storm, the fire wall was
blown over upon the log building. There were in
it at the time Mr.
Askew Darragh, John Mason, James M. Brasher
and Thomas Longley.
Mr. Askew
was instantly killed.
Mason was so severely hurt that he
died in a short time afterward.
Darragh, Brasher and
Longley escaped with very slight
injuries.
History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties,
Indiana, 1885, Page 256
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