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Aberdeen (SD) Daily News, Wednesday, September 3, 1913

A severe storm swept through the vicinity of White Owl Friday and considerable damage was caused by wind and lightning. Several houses were moved on their foundations and unroofed, and other buildings were damaged by lightning. Many horses and cattle were killed by lightning. There were no human fatalities, but there were a few cases of injury from flying debris in the Red Owl valley. J. J. Parrish was badly shocked when his house was struck by lightning.

Aberdeen (SD) Daily American, Tuesday, April 7, 1914

Charles Jensen, of Chalk Butte, Meade county, committed suicide by taking poison. Just before doing so he made an unsuccessful attempt to shoot his wife. A wife and six children survive him. Jensen was taken sick last June and ever since there have been signs that he was mentally unbalanced.

The Daily Plainsman, Huron, South Dakota

Monday, October 19, 1964

R. C. WOMAN SHOT IN HUNTING MISHAP

    Sturgis—A Rapid City woman was hospitalized Saturday afternoon at Community Hospital here with a gunshot would sustained in a hunting accident near Vale.

    Mrs. Raymond Pendergrass sustained a flesh wound in the right leg when a .410 shotgun accidentally discharged as she was getting out of the car. Thirty stitches were taken at the hospital. She is expected to leave the hospital in a day or two.

    Mrs. Pendergrass, an experienced hunter, was hunting pheasants with her husband and family when the mishap occurred near the Mead-Butte County line.