The following was transcribed for the Bklyn Info Pages http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blkyn/Bklyn.Info.Page.htmlI BDSU June 29, 1906 News > > HORSE KILLED DRINKING LIGHTENING CHARGED WATER > Driving a horse and wagon belonging to Peter BORSCHER, of Eighty-sixth > street and Fourteenth avenue, early this morning, John MILLER stopped to > give the > horse a drink at a watering trough on the corner of Eighty-sixth street and > Thirteenth avenue. It was thundering and lightning at the time, and when the > > horse put his head into the trough he was shocked to death by electricity > from > the water, which had become charged by a bolt of lightening. MILLER himself > was > not hurt, though he received a slight shock. > >