Mrs. John Brock of Cleburne county, was struck by lightning and killed some says ago. She had gone out to a well to draw some water, and while there, the electric current run down a small tree near by, and thence to her body.It was nearly an hour after the occurrence before her family found out that she had met her death. There was no mark of lightning on her.
SHOCKING ACCCIDENT. –Frank Starr, a negro living with Butler Green, above this place, was run over by the down train of the Selma Rome & Dalton Railroad, and horribly mangled. He was literally cut all to pieces. He was at some negro houses near the Railroad the night of the accident. Some time before the train came along, he had gone out to meet another negro. It is supposed he sat down on the track and fell asleep.
JACKSONVILLE REPUBLICAN SATURDAY AUGUST 19, 1871
