Passed onto me by Authur Medicine Eagle:

Miracle's Second Chance died Saturday night.
There is a news article following the call for pipes and prayers.

Dennis White Bear, keeper of the White Buffalo's,
just called and it is with great sadness that we share
the passing of Miracle's Second Chance. He was born
in a lightening storm and passed in a lightening
storm, being struck by lightening on the evening of
November 24th.

White Bear is on the way to the Heider farm to perform
the final ceremony on this, the forth day since his
passing.

We ask all Chanupa carriers to join in a Sacred Pipe
ceremony at 2:30 pm CST today (Tuesday) from your
Sacred Space or when you can.

Miracle Second Chance will be buried next to Miracle
on the Heider Farm.

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From the Janesville Newspaper:

Lightning strike kills white buffalo
Wednesday, November 29, 2006

By Gina Duwe
Gazette Staff

Lightning on Sunday night struck and killed two
buffalo cows and three buffalo calves, including a
white buffalo-Miracle'<WBR>s Second Chance-on the Heider
farm south of Janesville, Dave Heider said this
morning.

Heider discovered the five dead buffalo when he went
to check on the animals this morning before going to
work.

The white calf's mother was walking around and
grunting, so Heider followed her up the hill where he
found the five dead buffalo with burn marks laying
near a tree.

He thinks it was one lightning strike that hit all
five and the nearby tree.

The farm became a destination for thousands of
visitors after Miracle, a female white buffalo, was
born there on Aug. 20, 1994. In 1995, visitors to the
Heider farm increased tourism to Rock County by 22
percent.

White buffalo are extremely rare and are said to
fulfill a Native American legend foretelling peace.

Miracle died in 2004 and is now stuffed in the Heider
gift shop.

A male white buffalo was born on the farm Aug. 25 this
year.

"How many times in a lifetime does lighting strike?"
Heider said to The Janesville Gazette after the second
birth.

Sunday's storm answered his question, again.

Earlier this year, lightning struck a couple of his
Scottish Highlander cows, Heider said, but it had
never happened to any of his buffalo.

He said they figured they'd better "call it in and get
it on the news wire" so people wanting to visit the
white buffalo wouldn't be surprised.

"I suppose it's going to be a great loss to a lot of
people," he said.

Since the August birth, "a lot of people" have called
about visiting the farm, including people from Canada,
he said.

Sunday night's thunderstorm brought 0.24 inches of
rain to the area.

"It's just coincidence, I guess, that lightning struck
twice," he said. "He (Miracle's Second Chance) was
born in a storm and died in a storm."

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How very sad.....