Evening journal., 1916-07-26
ROD HIT Wire.
KILLING bishop
W. P. Eveland Meets Death
When Steel Tip Touches
Cable
HAD PREACHED IN
WILMINGTON CHURCH

CARLISLE. Pa. July 26.-william
Perry Eveland, Bishop OF Southern
Asia for the Methodist Episcopal
Church, was electrocuted near Mount
Holly Springs Monday evening
through the contact of a steel fish
ing rod which he had borrowed from
President James Henry Morgan Of
Dickinson College, with a high ten
sion electric wire carrying more than
10000 volts.
Bishop Eveland left the home of
relatives, with whom he had intended
to spend the summer, at o'clock
Monday evening and started on a
short fishing trip along Mountain
Run, after notifying his friends that
he might not return for supper About
o'clock the members of his family
became anxious over his delay. and
fearing that he might have been in
capacitated by complications growing
out Of a minor nasal operation which
had given him some trouble, they
started to search the immediate vi
cinity
Failure to locate the bishop until
a late hour caused an increase in the
number OF searchers, and in the after
noon hundreds Of citizens were en-
gagged in the hunt for the missing
prelate. A driving rain continuing
through night and day had almost
flooded the territory north Of Mount
Holly Gap and had made the search
extremely difficult.
About 2 O'Clock yesterday afternoon
Charles Cohill of Mount Holly, while
searching the banks of a creek that
runs near a large concrete culvert
belonging to the Reading Railway,
found the body lying in the high
weeds that border the stream. His
hands had been badly burned and
President Morgans steel rod lay be-
side him. A poorly insulated high
tension high wire hanging eight or
nine feet above the bank of the stream
told the story of the bishops death.
Coroner Dearborn arrived several
hours later and decided that electro
cution was the cause Of death without
holding a formal inquest
Bishop L veland, although born in
Harrisburg in 1864. the son of John c.
Eveland and Mary Macaleer, was in
business in Philadelphia until 1855 when
he became converted. He studied for
the ministry at Dickinson College, being
/ graduated four years later with vale
dictory and Phi Beta Kappa honors. In
sequence he preached at Shippensburg
! Danville, York, Chambersburg and
Bloomsbury. For two years Bishop
Eveland was director of Tome Institute
at Port Deposit, Md, and for sever
, years president Of Dickinson Seminary
at Williamsport. He was elected a.
missionary bishop four years ago ant
was assigned to Southern Asia. wit
headquarters at Manila. Philippine
Islands. The principal fields of his lat
labor were in India, the Straits Settle
ments. Singapore and the Philippines.
Bishop Eveland came to this country
cral months ago TO attend the gen
,al conference at Saratoga, and ha'
decided TO spend the summer at Noun
Holly Springs. He is survived by hi
widow. who was Miss Rosaie Mullin
/, of Mount Holly Springs. He was
member of the Phi Kappa Psi frater
nifty and the Ancient Bellies Lettres Lit
erary Society.
I. While at college here Bishop Evelan
J was active in football circles and was
member Of one Of the strongest team
that ever represented Dickinson. H
I also devoted some attention to baseball
e Methodist workers from the Far Fas
] have brought back word that he wa
one Of the leading figures in the can