“John H Warder, aged 32, only son of George M Warder, well-known Harrisonville merchant, was instantly killed by lightning at Tolesboro, Kentucky, Wednesday evening.”
“Mr. Warder was plowing in a field of his farm which is within sight of the town of Tolesboro, when a storm arose about four o’clock. He sought shelter under a tree. A moment later lightning struck the tree and Warder was killed outright. His lifeless body was found by the wife and a farm hand and carried into the home.”
“The young man was a son of Mr. Warder by a former marriage and had followed farming all of this lifetime, owning the place on which he lived. They had no children. The father who was distracted over the news of his boy’s sad fate left for Tolesboro on a C&O train Thursday afternoon.”1
