Killed by Lightning

On Thursday afternoon a negro boy, a mule and a hog were killed by lightning on the farm of W. L. Wilder, this county.   The mule was tied to a tree near the house in which the negro boy had taken refuge.  From the tree a clothes wire was connected to the house and it is supposed that the lightning which struck the tree got into the house from the wire.   The hog was in a pen under the tree.

Jackson Argus - Week of May 28, 1896

Submitted by Don Bankston