Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-24
Pennsylvania National Guardsmen
Experience Wild Night.
GOVERNORS TENT WRECKED
Executive of Keystone State Buried
Under Canvas-Women and
Children Go Into Mysteries.

GETTYSBURG. Pa, July 24.-An all
night search throughout Camp Hayes.
where the 10000 men Of the National
Guard Of Pennsylvania have been in camp
for a week, and which was last night
visited by a terrific electrical and wind
storm. shows that three soldiers were
struck dead by lightning and that nearly
a half hundred other persons were in
tured by the electrical bolts or were 9TH
erwise hurt. 1t was probably the widest
night the historic battle ground has ex-
nerienced since the memorable July days
of 1853
Those killed were:
Corp. c. Milton CARRIER. Company c,
10th Regiment, Washington.
James A. Barbe. Company K, 10th Reg
iment, Waynesburg'
Private Clyde Morrison, Company D.
10th Regiment.
The dead were members Of the I'd Bri-
eade composed of regiments from the
western part Of the state, most OF the
storm damage occurring in the section of
the field occupied by that brigade.
Injured in Hospital Tent.
The cots of the hospital tent are filled
with the injured. some Of whom are
women and children who had been VISIT
| ing the camp.
Following is a partial list OF the IN
jured
Tenth Regiment-Private Guy Br1ner'
Company D; Private George White. Com
pany D; Private Ernest Adams. Company
D: Private Alva Baker. Company d; Fri
vate Arthur Kline. Company l; private
Charles Long. Company K; private
Thomas Hillman. Company A: Private
Horner Bosley. Company A; Private Har-
ry Elsner, Company A; Private harry
Applegate, Company A; Private Jesse M.
Dougherty. Company B; Private waiter
r. Fleeson, Company B; Private Jesse
McKain, Company C: Private oliver H.
Moore, Company B; Private John H.
| Smith. Company H.
Fifth Regiment-Private A. Frank
Smith. Company B; Private Decker Com
| pany E.
| Sixteenth Regiment-Capt. P. J: Gun
ming. Inspector of rifle practice: Lieut.. ].
A. Saunders. Company G; sergt Ben
| Christler. musician. and Mrs Chrlstier;
| Sergt Morrison, chief musician, and Mrs
| Morrison: Private Oscar Montgomery
Company H; Private Tingwell. Company
l: Quarterma ster Sergt. w. S. Couch ana
| William Huer. his grandson; Cyrus Free
man of Oil City: sergt- Lee Badger nos
| pital corps; Private H. Ross, Company
| ii: Private H. A. Miller, Company h:
Private Robert Evoch. Company h;
| Sergt. Moore, on duty at brigade head
| headquarters.
First Regiment-Private John Krouse.
| Company l..
Second Regiment-The cook of Company
| G.
HOW Men Were Killed.
| More than 800 tents were blown down.
OF the ninety-six tents of Battery B but
| eight remained standing.
| CARRIER was with friends in the guard
tent when he was killed. The bolt threw
his companions in a heap, severely shock
| ing all of them. Then 1t shot along the
| ground thirty feet to the tent of Chief
| Musician Morrison, wrecking the tent and
| stunning Morrison, Christier and tpelr
| wives It.tore ChriStlers coat to shreds
and twisted his alto horn into shapeless
mass. An instant later fifty yards away,
| another bolt struck Barbe, killing him.
His watch stopped at 9:26. Private Nor
/
when he was struck There were seven
or eight patients in it, sufferers from the
| heat.
During a storm Tuesday night Lieut..
Paul X. Morley of the LIST Regiment was
killed by lightning while on regimental
| guard duty.
Governors Tent Collapses.
The tent which Gov. Stuart had been
| occupying during the weeks encampment
was blown down by the terrific wind and
| the governor and those who were his
guests at that time were buried under
| the canvas With the governor were
Charles B. Mann of the state railroad
commission Col Good of the 1St Regi-
| ment, Philadelphia, and Capt. p. l..
| Weaver, formerly of the LIST Regiment
| They were all thrown to the ground by
| the falling canvas, but managed to crawl
| out into the open. In the tent adJoin-
| ing that of the governor were the sisters
| of Gov. Stuart, Miss Cora Stuart of Har-
| risburg and Mrs. Lechler of Philadelphia
and Mrs. Charles B. Mann of Philadel-
| phia. They were there for the usual
| evening band concert and could not get
| back to town before the storm broke. 1t
| was with the greatest difficulty that the
| tent they occupied was kept from col
| Iapsing.
| 70 add to the excitement at division
| Headquarters the tall iron Flagstaff in
front of the tents of Gov. Stuart and Gen.
Wiley was struck by lightning. stunning
| several members of the governors staff.
Steel in Leggins.
| The three guardsmen who lost their
lives were killed in different places. Barbe
was sitting in his tent with another sol
der when he was enveloped in a blue
flame following terrific crash and he
| fell dead The other soldier, Paul Neal,
was only stunned.
| In each case of those killed the new
| army puttees furnished just before the
| men went into camp were torn from their
| limbs the steel ribs being exposed. The
| officers believed the steel attracted tie
| lightning.
| The storm, which had been brewing all
| evening, broke suddenly The wind blew
| with almost cyclonic force, the rain came
| down in torrents and the lightning was
the severest seen here in years. Although
| the hour was getting late, the camp still
! contained many visitors who had been tie
| layed by the Publications which always
| obtain in camp the night before the regi-
| ments leave for home. The second bril-
| eade is located in the lowest field of the
| camp ground, and every company street
| was soon running stream.
Utter Confusion Reigns.
| Everywhere tents were collapsing and
lightning bolts were striking In many
places. For atime utter confusion reigned.
but as the storm passed off the COM
manders Of the several regiments in the
ID Brigade brought about order and
| horon sysfematic search for 1,,rad