KILLED BY LIGHTNING LEWIS OTT, A YOUNG MAN EMPLOYED ON THE FARM OF GEORGE STRIBE, IS THE VICTIM.

An infinite power is represented in a lightning flash, a power that carries capabilities of death and destruction. Unseen, unheard and merciless, there is no escape from it, and its course cannot be foretold. On Thursday morning, a thunderbolt descended in, to the midst of a small group; two were uninjured, the third was instantly killed. Such is the variableness of its nature.

On Thursday morning, at 5:30, Louis Ott and George Stribe and son were working at the barn, on the Stribe farm, four miles northeast of Manning. A violent rain was just commencing and the men were endeavoring to shut the heavy door to the mow. The two men and the boy were only a few feet apart when lightning struck the rear end of the barn, followed the steel hay carrier track to the door, and descended among them, throwing them all to the floor. When Mr. Stribe recovered, he found the boy standing on his head in the hay, and Ott lying apparently unconscious. By the free use of water, the boy soon regained consciousness, but Ott could not be revived. Dr. Williams was summoned as quickly as possible, but the young man was beyond all possible medical assistance. The damage to the barn was but light.

Louis Ott was a young man twenty-four years old, and his parents live a few miles north of Carroll. The remains were taken to Carroll yesterday.