Ruthis Pamer Greene

GREEN, child -News of a sad accident occurring at Lowell has reached

us. Thursday evening of last week during a thunder storm the five year old

child of Dr. Green was struck by lightning and almost instantly killed. It

had climbed upon the bed within a few inches of its mother and was there

when it was so suddenly stricken down and the strange thing about it is

that Mrs. Green was comparatively uninjured by the stroke. She experienced

a considerable shock however but not serious. On the opposite side

of the bed from where the child was laying the railing of the bed was struck

and splintered and how Mrs. Green escaped is a miracle. The little child

was buried Saturday at Prairie Grove. It is hard to have one of our bright

little ones taken from us but when they are snatched away so suddenly

without a moments warning and in what seems such a cruel manner the

blow is doubly severe. Dr. Green and wife have the sympathy of their

Springdale friends in their hour of grief. [The Springdale News 6/12/1891]