The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-24
SIX ARE KILLED IN ELECTRICAL STORM Soldier Boys In Camp Struck
 By Lightning MANS BODY CUT IN TWO Whole Camp Is Terror Stricken and Dead and Dying Are strewn Over the Ground, While Darkness
 Prevents All Aid.

Gettysburg. Pa, July 2S.-As the result of a terrific electrical storm, which passesl over the Pennsylvania National Guard en- campment here tonight, it is reported that al least six troopers were killed ana two score injured, some of them seriously by being struck by lightning.
 The known dead are:
 Milton Carver, Tenth regiment.
 Private Morrison, Tenth regiment.
 Private Barbe, Eighteenth regiment
 The latter's body was completely severed in twain
 Tho tent occupied by Governor Stuart ,sas hlown down. as were a numttr Of others Several friends were sitting With Governor Stuart when his tent coliapseu' but the party escaped injury. The camp is flooded and telegraphic service is prac- tically at a standstill.
 The entire camp is panic-stricKeh. Ahe darkness is impenetrable and men are wildly running about through rivers o+ water seeking the injured. Every tent of Battery was blown down, but no one ;, tbe battery was hurt. The regimenta- .rard tent of the Tenth regiment was struck by lighting and forty men or com many were badly injured. The heid nos ,dtal is full and men lying about the camp awaiting aid.
 The Young Mems Christian association tent which was filled with men an1 women who had taken refuge rom ths storm was razed to the ground, put so for as known no one was seriously iri- iured.
 The following members of the Ienth regiment are seriously injured:
 White, Adams. Baker, Long, Boyd, He'll man, Cline, and Fleeson
 The colonel of the Tenth regiment has turned his quarters into hospital
 The colonel of the Tenth regiment said to A correspondent of the Associated press that at least six troopers were killed and over two score injured. Tn" men of the Second brigade, whose tents were pitched in the lowland, were forced to swim to safety. Their cots are floating about the camp and not a tent or thls brigade remains intact. When the storm swept down upon the camp there were hundreds of visitors present. scores or men and women sought shelter in the :. M q A. tent This immense sheet or canvas was tossed like toy balloon Tn a gale of wind, but strangely enough not one person is said to have been injured. Mai. c. c. Wiley. surgeon of the Second brieade. was severely shocked, and 1t was at first believed he had been killed. Major Wiley is a prominent physician Of Pittsburg. and was an alienist for the de- fense in the Thaw trial He, however, was not seriously hurt.
 Tn addition to the casualties previously reported, Captain O.. J. Cunning of War ren Lieut. James A. Saunders of Erie, Chief Musician Morrison and Drum Major Christley of Butler were badly injured. Lieutenant Kennedy reports that the Tenth regiment is in fearful shape. He says that every surgeon who has seen the dead and injured planes the trouble on the leggins worn by the men. Considerable steel is used in the leg gings. e .L. Fifth United States regulars, who came to Gettysburg this morning, says that four of the reported dead were members of the Second brigade. He says that men are lying about unconscious, and that troopers with lanterns are gathering them up.