The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-05-18
t|EUI OK. LYMAN
D|ES0F INJURIES
RECEIVED ATpOlO.
Army Officer Dies Without HAY
ing Regalned Consciousness
After Fall With Horse
F.. p. Fe ---"
CAME IN COLLISION
WITH ANOTHER PLAYER
Il asIasti@ a.
Deceased Was Hawaiian and
One Of Three Native Broth I'd
ers With Commissions :
tFrom Monday Advertiser.l


ally received severe shock late yes
terday afternoon when the tidings
spread that First Lieut. Clarence K.
Lyman had suecumbed to- the injuries
sustained In fall from his mount at
the polo game on MoanaluS Field Sat
urday afternoon. ~. IA
Death came at three o'clock, with.
out Lieutenant Lyman having once re
gained consciousness. At eleven o clock
in the morning Capt. Leartns J. Owen
and Capt Jaw d. Wbitham OF the Med
ical Corps, stationed at the Department
Hospital, Fort shafter, performed an
operation as a last resort, but with
little hope at the outset that 1t would
save the lieutenaht's life. r.
The operation revealed that LvTan's
skull was severely crushed on. the top
resulting In sAch laeeratio1 Of the brain
AMI d&sffuetion of brain tissue that re I
co~erp was Impossible. ? 49, p =
Mrs. Lyman, the widow. and two
hrothers of the deceased, Lieutenants
Charles B. Lyman and Albert X. B,
Lyman,i also serving in the army on
oshn, were at the bedside when the end
| came -. ~ -
Funeral arrangements have not been
made. but il is undoubted that the
service win be military. The remains,
which were removed tn SilvP's mnaa+
taking rooms, will he taken to Hilo for
i"tarineht ID the Lyman family burial
| plot. ts%i ia.
Casts PAU, over Army
The announcement of the death o"
Lieutenant Lyman cast pail of gloom
over al spms IN the service. Moreover
ii came largely as a surprise. 1t had
been UNDERSTOOD that the lieutenant
was severely in iured, but few had any
! inti" alton that the result might prove
fatal. sI-A,.- s.
! After, bis heavy fall when he pitched
I headlonRDfroui his mount to the ground,
, following ,aS eollisionlhetween his horse
and that ridden by Walter F. Dnling.
ham, Lyman lazy perfectly still. He
was carried from the field unconscious
and rushed to the Department Hospita'
at Fort Shafter. by automobile.
I At late hour Saturday night re
ports from the hospttal were that the
patient WIS still UNCONSCIOUS. and 'i'c
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brain. there was every Indication of re
eovery.
However, when LYMAN had not re-
gained consciousness yesterday morn
d, ing and Indications of fracture became
marked, the operation was decided on
as a last resort. The patient rallied
for short time. but remained uncop
scious and soon began to fail rapidly
to the end
Immensely Popular in Service
As news of the death spread to the
different posts, a hush fell over officers
and men. On every lip were the same
3 words: "a finer fellow never drew
breath
No man who ever doomed khaki
uniform was more popular With brother
officers and men He was every irch
. a soldier but dominated mainly by his
q wonderfully pleasant personality. AS
ON the parade ground or in the field,
he was equally popular in social halls
or on the athletic field.
The Lyman "boys," as familiarly
known, hold a unique place in the
army. Three in numb er, and with only
a few years separating them in age,
they followed each other quickly in
graduation from the military academy
at West Poiut.
Clarence. X. was the first to be ap.
pointed. He was named by Delegate
Wilcox in 1901, and graduated IN June,
1895. IncidentaIlS, he was the fret
Hawaiian to cutter West Point. Upon
gettiRg his lieutehaAey he was attRe he'd
as second lieutenant to the Fourth Cav
| AIRY. He graduated from the Mounted
Service School in 1910.
Becomes First Lientenant
! The following year he got his single
har aud went to the Twelfth Cavalry
as first lieutenant. In October, 1917.
he was transferred back to the Fourth
Cavalry and came with the regiment
to Oahu when it was ordered here. He
was attached to Troop B at the time
of his death.
Albert, X. H. was second to eDter,
being appointed in 1905, the year Clar.
enee graduated He was attached to
the Corps Of Engineers, and was pro
NOTED to first lieutenant October ~,
I 1912. lie is stationed at Fort Shafter
Charles b., following suit, entered the
academy the same year Albert *. b.
graduated, 1909. He in turn graduated
in 1913 and was assigned to the Secord
Infantry. Tins all three brothers were
serving in their homeland at the same
tine and in different arms of the
service
| Clarence X. Lyman was horn at
Paauhan, lIamakua, Hawaii, on Feb.
ruary %, 1882, the son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Rufus A. Lyman, both deceased. He
! was the eldest of ten children. His
father was a cane planter of Hamakua
! in the Sos, and also deputy sheriff Of
. the same district.
Given Splendid Education
Later the Lymans moved to llilO,
that the children might have better