George Kuhn

KUHN

Posted By: Rebecca Foster (email)
Date: 8/31/2014 at 12:46:15

BOLT OF LIGHTNING STRUCK AND KILLED A BUFFALO CITIZEN

Well Known and Highly Respected Resident of Scott County Meets Death As He Was Going Home In Thunderstorm Sunday Afternoon.

A stroke of lightning killed George Kuhn, a well known resident of Buffalo, Ia., on one of the streets of that place Sunday afternoon. He and Charles Hirsemann were leaving the hall where a special meeting of Banner lodge, Knights of Pythias, had been held. With others they were making for their homes in the hope of reaching them before the threatened storm broke. When it began to rain so hard they both started to run, Mr. Hierseman being 200 feet in advance, when lightning struck them both to the ground. Mr. Kuhn was instantly killed, his skull being fractured and one leg and his clothing and one shoe burned by the electric fluid. Mr. Hirsemann was stunned but soon recovered.

Mr. Kuhn was a very prominent citizen of Buffalo, at one time a member of the town council, and an enterprising man in many ways. He was a veteran of the civil war, and was with Sherman on the march to the sea. He was 53 year old and leaves a wife and five children.

he funeral will occur at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, with interment in the Buffalo cemetery. The services will be conducted by Banner lodge, No. 16, K. of P.

Source: Davenport Republican; Davenport, Ia.,07 May 1901.