Taylor Station, Missouri
Lightning
Strike
June
20, 1897
Lightning Bolt Finds Two Victims
Quincy, Ill, June 20-- Two men were
killed by lightning near Taylor Station, Mo.,
today. The victims were
James H. Smith, who
lived on a farm of Mrs. James J. Jarrett of
Quincy, and Samuel H. Hickman,
who boarded with
him and worked the adjoining farm. Hickman
was in the barn at 5 o'clock a.m., when Smith
went out to call him to breakfast, A bolt
of lightning struck and killed Smith just as he
entered the stable door. The same flash
fired the barn and it was burned. Hickman
was roasted to a crisp and two mules and three
horses were burned to death.
The Greeley Tribune, Greeley, Weld Co., CO, 24 Jun 1897
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