Show A GETTYSBURG INCIDENT A Soldier Stunned by the Explosion of a Shell I sco by tho war cablegrams said a resident of Plttsburg at olio of tho hotels that some of the dead Boers found In the trenches where lyddllo shells had burst were without Islblo wounds Apparently Ap-parently they hud been killed by shock That recalls to mo forcibly a Very rc markablo case for which I can vouch personally During the first days fight ing at Gettysburg a young man named Joo Cadv Second Lieutenant In tho Twentieth Pennsylvania was supposed to have been killed 1 by a shell which exploded explod-ed within a few yards of his head Later In the day some passing comrades saw that ho was breathing and carried him Iff tho rear where tho surgeons made an examination and greatly to their surprise sur-prise could llnd no wound The man was n n profound stupor but to all appear unccs was physically unhurt He wns sent to time general hospital at Washington Washing-ton and from thence 10 his homo still In tho same condition Cady was the won of a farmer who lived near JJurrlsburg all my own people know tho family quito well I wits a buy jio more than i i or G eun old when time Lieutenant rouelml tho old farm but 1 rcimmbcr distinctly what a sensation tho case created For Hoverul WIck Catty lu l y exactly llko one dead and then very gradually ho began to emerge from unconsciousness Into IL horrible automatic sort of life next door to complete Idiocy lie could sit up and even walk a few steps but his mind was IL blank ant thu only sounds ho uttered wero guttural noises like an animal That shocking condition remained unaltered for nearly three years then suddenly without warning ho had a seizure llko catalepsy from which ho awoko In n few hours In com ploto possession of his reason Ho was 10 terribly bewildered of course and had no Idea whero he wus but after tho saoclc of waking passed ofT he was as suno OH UV < M During tho yours his faculties were II 1 sunpeiiHo ho sat most of thin llinu with his uyes cluxtsl I and tilt consequence was that th cmH n very sensltlvo to light Ho had to wear blue glasses for sometime some-time but that seemed to bo the only hat effect ho suffered LIcuL Cady be catno an active business man amid died In 1K or a fCtC 1 An autopsy might havo given some duo tq his long trance but TlmosDemocriL bollovu none was heldNew S Orleans |