Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-20
Sidney E. Gadd, HuaChuoa Ranch CT Suddenly Struck Dead As
 He Picked Beans In Garden
 Which Belonged To NeighbOT
Blaze Struck Youth In Neck And Descended Whole Length Of Body Going Out FOOt-Death
 Was instantaneous, SurmiSed

With his face discolored. his flesh cooked and his clothing on fire, the dead body of Sidney E. Gadd, a young rancher in the Huachuca mountains. was found Sunday even ing at 6 o'clock. He had been killed by bolt of lightning which struck him two hours previous. Apparently death was instantaneous.
 Gadd lost his life while fulfilling the Biblical injunction @ aid the widows and orphans. It was the Sab bath day and he and another ranch CT had gone to the home of their neighbor a widow and were in the field picking beans for her. About o'clock a shower and thunderstorm came up, but not of sufficient pro- portion 10 cause them to cease work. Laughing and joking they continued to pick beans for the poor widow. They were at peace with the world.
 Suddenly the sky was illumined, shaft Of lightning descended and Gadd fell to the ground killed in- stantly His partner was stunned and fell to the ground unconscious. He revived two hours later and found inc body of Gadd. stiff in death, with bis hair burned, his face livid and Dis clothes on fire. The lightning had set fire to them but the rain had smothered the flames to a certain extent and for two hours they had smouldered However, there were great burned places over the body Aid was summoned and the fire ex- tinguished.
 The lightning struck Gadd on the left side of the neck, ran down the center of the chest and at the stom- ach branched off to the right side. going down the limb and into the ground. Where the bolt ran down the body the flesh was scared as if with a hot poker. The face and ears were turned black, but the undertaken has been able to remove that condition.
 Gadd was 24 years old His father lives at Bridgewater. Somerset, Eng land. and his sister Mrs. Edith Ouass, at Pasadena. At the time of his death there were letters in the postoffice from both These, which contained words of love and cheer. were opened yesterday by friends. The deceased had homestead of 16O acres which he filed on in January, 1912. He lived alone in a one-room adobe house Recently he obtained a leave of absence and went to visit his sister at Pasadena, returning to the ranch only three weeks ago He was also a brick mason, belonging to that union. local No. 15, at Pasadena.
 Gadd was a splendid specimen of humanity He weighed obout 165 and was built perfectly having an es- pecially fine chest and pair of arms. He was popular in the community and the entire neighborhood is in mourning over his sad end
 Undertaken W. c. Hubbard went to the mountains yesterday and brought the body to Bisbee, where it is be- ing held awaiting instructions from ms blhLtIf WHO W dh uoAlutA by ANAS' graph last night Gadd's ranch is near Ramsey canyon and about two miles north of Jacks store. It is about thirty-two miles from here. The deceased received his mail at Here ford, and seems not 10 have been we'll known here. though he came to Bisbee occasionally.
 The Huachuca mountains 1t is said, receives more than their share of lightning strokes. There have been deaths there in the past from the same cause. and at every storm some of the huge forest trees are shattered. A man remarked last night that he knew of one tree there that had been struck three times disproving the old superstition that lightning never strikes in the same place twice.