Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-24
SIX TROOPERS
MEET DEATH IN
FIERCE STORM
NATIONAL GUARDS OF PENN
SYLVANIA KILLED
ONE MAN is TORN IN TWO BY
TERRIFIC GALE
Gettysburg Encampment Struck Unr
expectedy = Terrible Panic
Ensues-Many Are
Injured

By Associated Press.
GETTYSBURG, Pa, July 23.
AS the result of a terrific cleo
trical storm which passed over
the Pennsylvania National guard
encampment here tonight, it is
reported that at least six troop
ers were killed and two score in
jured, some of them seriously, by
being struck by lightning.
The known dead are:
PRIVATE MORRISON,
Tenth regiment.
PRIVATE BARBE, Eight
eenth regiment.
MILTON CARVER, Com
pany c, Tenth regiment.
The latter's body was complete
ly severed in twain. The tent oc-
:upied by Governor Stuart was
blown down, as were number
Of others.
Several friends were sitting
with Governor Stuart when his
tent collapsed, but the party man
aged to hold the canvas, and all
escaped injury.
The following members of the
Tenth regiment are seriously in
Ijured: White, Adams, Baker,
ILong, Boyd, Hellman, Cline and
Fleeson.
The colonel of the Tenth regi-
ment has turned his quarters into
la hospital.
Camp Is Flooded
The camp is flooded and telegraphic
service is practically at standstill-
The entire camp is panic-stricken.
| Darkness is impenetrable and men are
wildly running about through rivers
of water, seeking their injured.
Every tent of Battery E was blown
down, but no one in the battery was
hurt.
The regiment guard tent of the
Tenth regiment was struck by light
ming and forty men of Company G
were badly injured. The field hos
pital is full and men are lying about
| the camp waiting for aid.
| The Young Mems Christian associa-
tion tent, which was filled with men
and women who had taken refuge there
during the storm, was razed to the
ground, but so far as is known no
one was seriously injured.
More than forty were injured.
| The greatest confusion prevails, and
the visitors to the camp, as well as
many of the troopers, are panic
stricken.
| The field hospital is crowded with in
jured and the colonel of the Tenth reg
iment has given up his quarters to
those who are in need of medical as
| sistance.
Storm Breaks Furlously
| When the storm came up Governor
Stuart was entertaining a few friends
| in his tent.
The storm broke out with such sud-
denness and fury that the occupants
of the tent found themselves entangled
in the canvas and ropes on the instant.
| but all escaped without serious injury
The men of the Second regiment,
whose tents were pitched in the low
land. were compelled to swim to safe
| ty. Their cots are floating about the
camp, and not a tent of this brigade
remains intact.
When the storm swept down upon
the camp there were hundreds of vis-
itors present. Scores of men and wom-
en- sought shelter in the Young Mems
| Christian association tent. This i'm
mense sheet of canvas was tossed like
a toy balloon in a gale of wind. but
strangely enough not one person Is
said to have been injured.
The greatest excitement prevails, and
MANY troopers who were injured can
be located only by their cries for as
sistance, all the lights in the camp hav-
ing been extinguished by the terrific
| wind.