Show LIGHTNING S SLAYS LAY S SPANISH FORK F FARMER ARM ER Green Stricken While I at Work His Young Son Narrowly Escapes In a terrific storm that swept over Spanish Fork yesterday afternoon Green aged 38 a wealthy farm farID farmer er was struck by bYa bY a lightning bolt and was instantly killed Green with his small son William was at his farm two miles west of Spanish Fork irrigating when tho storm arose Came a blinding flash Clash a a. resounding peal of oC thunder and Green and the bo boy were hurled to th the earth I Tho The boy badly bruised with his clothing in ribbons attempted to his father fattier Failing in this he lie ran to where Ralph Boyack and his old Dear son Edwin had been working In the tho field about fifty rods away Papas sleeping and I can cant can't t wake told Boyack him the child chUd Boyack has hastened toned to where hero the bod body lay a and found Green with his clothing in shreds the crown of his hat torn from the rim and with a red weal along the side of the face where the bolt boIt had struck The dead farmer fanner still clutched the shovel with which he had been irrigating but his pocket knife had been torn from his trousers pocket pock pock- et Ct and hurled three feet Every Even button button button but but- ton was torn from his coat Boyack and his son Edwin had been I thrown to the ground when tho the bolt boIt struck but sustained no serious ries Edwin Boyack was painfully burned ned on his right side from his head to his Imis heel and his hIs' clothing was torn During the storm the Chautauqua in progress at Spanish Fork was forced to take a recess and the tho Chautauqua crowd adjourned to the city pavilion At one time the wind blew so fiercely it was feared that the Chautauqua tent would be torn from its moorings While many persons in the tent tont were frightened it was emptied in an ordeny orderly or or- deny derly derl manner and there was nothing that resembled panic Besides his wife who is an invalid Green leaves four children the tho eldest 13 years of age |