LONG, Riley

LONG

Posted By: C. Diamond
Date: 3/6/2012 at 08:35:52

Mills County Tribune
Glenwood, Iowa
Monday, July 31, 1916
Page 1 (front page), Column 2

KILLED BY LIGHTENING

The body of Riley Long of Hay Springs, Neb., arrived in Malvern on Sunday evening on Wabash train No. 14, and was met there by his father and brothers from Tabor, near where the deceased once lived.

Mr. Long and a brother were standing in the door of his barn Saturday during a storm when killed by a stroke of lightning. His brother was practically uninjured.

Mr. Long leaves a wife and two children. His father, William Long, runs a meat market in Tabor.

The Funeral took place today.