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Kay Cunningham

 

The Marlin Democrat
Fifteenth Year   Number 11
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, May 12, 1904

NEGRO KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
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(Mart Herald.)

     Tuesday evening General Burke, a negro was struck and instantly killed by lightning during the rain storm while chopping cotton in the field of Mrs. Cowan. He was in the act of filing his hoe when he was struck with the above results. He was about 35 years of age and had been an employe on the Cowan farm several years. In the field with him were Grady Cowan, Leslie Hannahand a negro all of whom were more or less shaken up. Grady and Leslie were both knocked down but rose immediately running to the house.

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