The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-08-15
A Remarkable s,rok, q, uirb,u,pr.

THE WHOLE EIJHrBENTH MISSOURI REGIMENT
STUNNED AND BIIsDED-TwO MEN KrLLBD
AND FIGHTkEN SEVERELY BURNED.
From the Chattanooga Gdfetic.
A most remarkable stroke of lightning oc-
CURED in &c Camp Fuller q .gide, near Rossvil c,
Ga, July II, 1864, killing AID woundng ab nut
fifteen soldiers, and killing and shocking severely
several teams, a description Of which may be in-
;erestirg to your readers.
MI Pollock, Regimental Wagonmaster sclen-
tfC gentleman WHO observed the beginning Of
the Storm closely, relates that about 6 O'Clock
L. M, the heavy clouds gsthering IN the west
diviCed and one part pa, ,sing southwark and the
other passing northH ard, both emitting lightning
ana rain, ana finally coming together again rgnt
over the 10th Army Corps, cdmped on the MIL
on the sCuth bank OF the ChStlahO0chee, at Ross
Nile br!Gge. At the moment ut the union of tue
two clouds, tue most vivid aud incess Int II ,shes
OF lightning were emitted, followed /, thunder
peGls alinCst equaling our own CtuuOu, with deaf
ening, sarting almUst appa ling eircr.
The discharge that did The prlucipal damage In
the 18th Missouri Infantry, AN observer relates
descended from TIT cloud at a very low attitude,
and shot across the road, a lurld, hOriz Infa
volume Of iamc, about the thickness of II ms
bocy. II struck tai oak about ninety feet
high ana thirty inches thick, on a high point of
ground. and descended, splitting il from tue
heart, hut throwing no splluters. AT tine base
of The tree, where large number of
soldiers bad biouacke0, the huid seemed
10 cave the ute and It's roots aud dare
out IN every direction ia "A gTea, number flurId
jets, similar 10 those of u large mas of zig iron
ara white heat under the tnp-hammer except,
instead of fly y;nc in sparks, they were in CONT
nuous streams. All this was only the work of an
insan'. Nearly tue whole regiment was stunned
ard blinded Many lay shock d 10 insensioiluy.
whole siX mule team, ut the distance of twenty
yards. were thrown down. just az this iuncttlre
the discharge # the cloud seemed 20 strike IN
Ispid succession at ether places Ia the brigade,
have since learned, killing and wouudiDg men
and animals.
Now for DESCRIPTION of freaks Those little
jets running from the trunk OF tue column of the
Clt ctIic EUiG somtthiDg hkc the ToVis aud tne
TOOtlets OF a large tree, penetrating everything
they came IN contact with, uorc penetrtt ttlnS toau
u bullei and some OF them were no larger than
aknitJinR ntedlc. In their puuctnrCs thev made
no iTdenta ion like a bullct, buG burst their way
Everything hey touched blankets, clothing
hair, skin, paper, &c.. had The app arance OF
yitTiol 81 riukled over them. The apUsa an @ II
the vicinity generally vas that of q la &c quan.i'y
OF VitTiol having burst and sprlukled in nne jets
around
/ examined one soldi RS kuapsack aud con-
tents. One little jet, about the eiZe Of u buck
shot, had entered it, pele ra.ed tweniy-six folds
OF bis blanket, penetrated Though his portfolio,
through letters, envelopes, quirps of p per, Il 4.
guorIeoN pes, and tue BRAS clasp Of his portfolio.
Several men were burned, and he Appearance If
tho skin Is Ike thRt Of scaldinY water hay ng run
from tie b, hd t. the heels, singing hair, and
burning the skin to blister, and in some in
stances deep into the Iesh.
Eight suuS standing by the tree Wers dis
charged without injury % the guns. Coz, oral
John Taylor, CDmp,Uy l, snd Private Johu Hen
Sci, Company |, were killed. Eigh, mem Ders of
the same coII pDny were severely nurnCd. rnose
near the tree received cHTrlnts of fluid which
ian along their hodies. rnOsr at dist 70 OJrc
the appearance on ncr skins of having stood II
th" 'Patttls anu cOrrusca'iOns of molten iron
from u ,ri- hammer three men ofthe I'd United
S ates Battery were killed. wLie four inu q
team, with driver und uri rO man. On the op Ipsite
l side Cf the river, were killed.
Exsmil irg the topOsr ply of tie country, l
hm 81 tie OIiuiou th the vast number o. arms,
mu>kets ana sttc! cannon, drew hose two clOui.
! together over that spt A. il WAS no higher than
many Othel b'lis in iheir cOurse ia the viciaify.
/ The clouds pHs, ed low 10 their whole roate f,r
! miles jut did not unite Ii r diSCh rgC not ar
/ irving over the l6th Corps, sh;ch S,s ctinJrd
| clOsC together. Your, Nm HlAP>raEEr
Cap'uln Sth Missouri In'aut-y.