Ruby Neidt

NEIDT

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 4/7/2006 at 23:08:35

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
August 30, 1906

RUBY NEIDT, Little Daughter of John Neidt, of Walnut Township, is Killed by Lightning.

Ruby, the six year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Neidt, of Walnut township, was instantly killed by lightning on last Friday evening. The little girl had been in the house until within a few minutes of her death when she ran out in the yard and sat down under a tree in the front yard. A telephone line runs from the road side to the dwelling and served as a conductor to the deadly bolt which killed her instantly. There was no rain storm at the time but a small cloud accompanied by sharp lightning was passing overhead.

The little girl was of an unusually winsome disposition and her parents are nearly heart borken with grief.