Bio: Buker, Fred – Barn Burns (17 Sep 1904)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Buker, Stauss

----Source: Greenwood Gleaner (Greenwood, Clark Co., Wis.) 22 Sep 1904

Fred Buker of the West Side had the misfortune Saturday evening to have his big barn, one of the first basement barns in this part of the country, struck by lightning and burned to the ground, together with 1,000 bushels of oats and some other grains, besides about 100 tons of hay. The only stock burned were two calves. A team of horses were in the barn when the fire started, but the good work of the hired man, Jacob Stauss, saved these. Had the fire occurred a few moments later, all the milk cows would have been inside also.

Though it rained in torrents in many places that evening, it hardly laid the dust in the Buker section, and it was hard to fight to save the souse and other buildings belonging to Mr. Buker. only $300 insurance was carried at the time.