Abbreviations used
Date August 13 1890
County Northumberland
Place Newcastle
Newspaper Union Advocate
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
James LEWIS, fireman on the I.C.R. between Newcastle and Campbellton, received a despatch a few days ago stating that his father, A. LEWIS had been struck by lightning at Caribou, Maine Tuesday eve. and was killed. The deceased was an elderly man and a shoemaker by trade. - 'Times'