Show A WHOLE REGIMENT UC LIGHT NING G the chattanooga gazette re ports Z that during 0 a thunder storm near nea r ros rossville aville georgia the lightning prostrated nearly th the c whole orthe esth missouri regiment the th account says it struck a tall oak about ninety acet high and thirty inches thick oli on a high point of ground and descended splitting 0 it from the heart bu but t throw inano splinters 4 at ai A i the base of tile the tree where a lar large re number of soldiers 11 had a d bivouacked bivouac ked the fluid seemed to afa lesat e the tree and its roots and dart os i rd t irr in every direction in a great greal number of lurid jets similar to those of a lar langemass large mass of pig irois ata white heat under tile the trip hammer except instead 0 of flying in sparks were in in continuous streams all this was the work vork of only an instant nearly the whole regiment was st stunned untied and blinded many lay shocked ed to insensibility A whole six mule team at the distance of twenty yards were thrown down just althis at this juncture 19 re the discharge of the cloud seemed to strike in rapid succession at other 7 tp ace woe I 1 a in ake 11 briga 7 brigade brigada dc a T i i haven have sin since kf 4 cel 01 earned killius and WOUD wounding ding men and ahi animals mals little j jets ets running from the trunk of the alic column of electric huid fluid something za like the roots and fine root lessof a large tree penetrated eve every ry thing they came in contact with more penetrating penetration than a bullet and some of them w were ere no larger than a knitting knitting g needle re edle in their po pome ine tures they made no il indention dention like a bullet but burnt their way everything they touched blankets ClOth clothing illg hair skin shin paper etc had the appearance of vitriol sprinkled crinkled over them the appearance of odthe the vicinity generally was that of e salange sa aw larg large quantity of vitriol having ua st and sprinkled in fine jets around L examined a soldiers knapsack and contents one little jet about tile the size of a buckshot J had entered it 2 penetrated twenty six folds of his blanket blanket 4 through his portfolio letters 12 envelopes quires of paper types and the brass clasp of the portfolio several men were burned and th appearance of the skin is like that ol 01 water having run from th the e head to the heals singeing hair an and burning the skin to a blister andin some instances deep into th the e begh af |