The Washington Republican Washington County Friday July 16, 1897 Bad Work By Lightning. Last Friday evening during the storm the thunder was heavy and the lightning sharp. The storm came on from the west and people in town could see the play of lightning just before supper time. Eight miles west of here Asher ROOT and Albert BONAR were plowing corn for Jas. CREIGHTON and when the storm came up they drove under a tree to escape the rain. A bolt of lightning shattered the tree, darted from it to the team the Bonar boy was holding by the bits, killing both horses and at the same time prostrating Asher Root who was sitting under the tree. The boy took the other horses and rode one to the house giving the alarm that Mr. Root was dead. When the people found him he had partially gained consciousness and had rolled near the edge of a stream, and had they not found him soon the water in the rapid swelling stream would have covered him. He was taken to the house and cared for. At present he is getting on nicely but is confined to bed. The Bonar boy is ablt to work again. Eight miles north of here a boy was killed by lightning. From different parts of the county we hear of cattle and horses being killed by lightning at the same time the other damage was done.