Fort Worth Daily Gazette
May 6, 1890

Pilot Point, Tex., May 5. – Intelligence was received here this morning of the tragical death of two young men yesterday evening near Tioga, the first station north of Pilot Point. They were driving in a wagon on the way home. About one mile from Tioga a bolt of lightning killed both young men and the team they were driving. The names of the young men are John Young and Joseph Sanders. Their clothes were set on fire and the bodies were badly charred before any one came to their relief. The bodies were brought to this place for interment this afternoon.

Collinsville, Tex., May 5. – One of the saddest and most astonishing calamities ever known to this community happened yesterday evening about five miles southeast of this place. It was during a thunder storm that John Young and Tom Sanders, being near Tioga, were on their way home from relatives near this place. When they were nearly to their destination the two young men and their fine team were struck stone dead by a stroke of lightning, the lightning burning the clothes nearly off their bodies and setting fire to the wagon. The young men were very prominent in their neighborhood and member of two of the leading families. Mr. Young leaves a young wife. The terrible catastrophe was witnessed by two or three parties at a distance.