Sharon, Wisconsin Storm
July
9, 1880
WIND AND LIGHTNING.
Incidents of Last Friday's Storm
A heavy rain storm, accompanied by the most
vivid lightning, and in some places by a
destructive wind, passed over the country on
Friday night of last week. The lightning
was particularly destructive...
TWO MEN KILLED IN SHARON
Sharon Correspondence of the Journal.
On Friday morning, July 9th,
Andrew Yenta,
aged 27 years, and his younger brother, while at
work in a cellar under the former's dwelling,
were struck by lightning and instantly killed.
The bolt struck the chimney, completely
demolishing it, and passing down through the
first and second floors, struck the elder
brother and passed down the back of his neck,
mutilating the head and shoulders badly.
The body of the younger brother showed no signs
of violence. A little girl who was in bed
in the next chamber was slightly burned, but
several persons on the ground floor escaped
without injury.
The Stevens Point Journal, Stevens
Point, WI 17 Jul 1880
Possibly this Andrew
Janta, a Prussian farmer, who
according to the 1880 census (enumerated a
couple of weeks before the storm) lived in
Sharon, WI, with his wife, Mary, 3 year-old
daughter Francis and infant son Nicholas.
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