Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-08-27
HOLLY THOMPSON'S DEATH.
His Home Paper Gives the
Particulars.
The Announcement Was Heard With
regret here-Mr. Thompson was a
Law Student Last Year-He Was a
Very Popular and Well Known young
Man and Bright Student.
Hampshire Review.

tense sorrow, not only to the relatives
of Holly d. Thompson, but to his
friends and every one who knew him
was his friend.
A dispatch from New York an
nounced the Hospital Ship sRelief"
arrived al that port on Friday morn
ing, last, containing about $50
wounded soldiers from Gen Miles
army, in Porto Rico, and about the
same number of patients suffering
from typhoid fever. In the body of
the dispatch was the brief statement
that ten patients had died of typhoid
fever, on the way up and all of them,
save one, surgeon, was buried at
sea. The list of the dead followed
and among the names was that of
HOLLAND Thompson, private, Hos
pital corps. !"
Holly, as he was Familiarity and af-
fectionateiy called by his family and
friends, was the eldest son of James
w. and Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, of
Three Churches, this county and was
about twenty-five years of age. He
was one of the most intellectual and
popular young men ever raised in this
county. He was educated in the
public schools and at the Fairmont
Normal School, in Randolph Macon
College and in the Nashville Normal
University. After completing his
course at the latter place, he came
here last summer and spent short
time in the law Office of w. B. Corn
well, preparatory to entering the
State University, where he went last
fall
He entered that institution at the
beginning of the school year, taking
the law course, and there sustained
the reputation he had previously es-
tablished as student and gentle
man, and was, when he left the I'm
iversity, President of the Junior law
class. When war with Spain was de-
clared he thought it his duty to go
and enlist in the First West Virginia
Regiment and went with his company
to Charleston. A little later the reg
iment was ordered to Chickamauga
Park and there he remained with
them until about month ago, when
he was assigned to the Hospital corps,
in the volunteer army and was order
ed to Porto Rico in the army of in
vasion, under General Miles, On
Friday, last, Mr.. Thompson informed
us that the last letter he had received
from Holly was written from New
port News, just about the time he
was embarking for Porto Rico, which
was three weeks ago, last Saturday.
The army arrived 10 Porto Rico three
days later and operations were be-
gun at once. When he took sick
is not known and may never be as
certained, but it is more than prob
able that he was taken i'll in the
field, as all the cases of fever that
developed were sent north as soon as
possible. The New York papers state
that while there were 248 cases of
fever on board the ship "Relief," as
we'll as large number of wounded
men, when it reached New York, yet
the ship was as tidy as could be and
everything possible for their COM
fort and welfare was being done by
the surgeons and nurses in charge.
The poor fellows who died at sea were
buried there, with the usual sea-bur-
ial services.
Such is war. Such is the fate of
many of the brave boys who have
gone in answer to their country's call
and such will be the fate of hundreds
more, who will be detained under the
tropic skies, by order of the govern
ment, in an effort to hold territory
acquired in war, begun, as was sol
EMMY avowed, not for conquest, but
for humanity.
We learn just before going to press
that a letter was received yesterday
by Hollies mother, written on the
18th inst. He was then on board the
ship 'sRelief, and stated that he was
sick. unable to walk. He said he did
not know why they had taken him
aboard the ship, but he supposed they
knew best. He further stated that
lie was being treated all right at that
time but that they received very bad
treatment in going over, as they did
not get anything to eat at one time
for four days This, of course, sets
at rest all doubts as to the identity
Of the poor boy and confirms the re-
port of the miserable treatment ac-