MAN AND MUEL TEAM KILLED BY LIGHTING
HOMER CARR and Team Struck by Lighting Late
Saturday Evening and Instantly Killed.
Homer Carr, who resides four miles above Charleston on the river, and
his team of two mules, were struck by lighting during the storm
Saturday evening and instantly killed. Mr. Carr was plowing in a field
and thinking the clouds would soon pass by and evidently not
considering them threatening paid no attention to the approaching
storm. There was no witness to the scene. When Mr. Carr did not return
home in good season his wife sent an uncle to the field to ascertain
the cause of his delayed return, and this uncle made the awful
discovery. Mr. Carr was 24years old and married. The funeral was held
Sunday afternoon and interment was made in the country cemetery on the
McMinn county side near his late residence. (June 29, 1909 Cleveland
Journal & Banner)