Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, June 26, 1908 Volume 42, Number 26 Heavy Storms in Northern Cambria Woman Killed by Lightning in Barnesboro and Barn burned at Hastings, Much Damage Done to Telephone Lines, Timber, Crops, etc. On Wednesday afternoon last between the hours of two and four o’clock a heavy storm of hail, rain, wind and lightning passed over Northern Cambria County. At Barnesboro Mrs. Mary Olair, a Slavish woman, a widow, with eight children, while returning to her home along the railroad track for the Pennsylvania Railroad depot where she had gone with a friend, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. At Hastings the large barn of Peter Helfrick which contained a considerable amount of hay was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. Large trees were broken off or turned out of root and corn and potato ground which had been recently cultivated was badly washed. Reports that a man named Alex Dunlap, living at New Washington, near Hastings had been killed by lightning lacks confirmation as also a report that a man was killed in the vicinity of Chest Springs. The storm extended as far at Tyrone, Blair County. The farmers in the vicinity of Chest Springs, Bradley Junction, Patton and Carrolltown, had warning to expect rain sent out by phone by Dr. Harry Somerville of Chest Springs, who receives daily reports with the Weather Bureau at Pittsburg, but they did not expect any such storm. Death of Peter Hubbard at Bakerton Northern Man Dies of Rupture of a Bloodvessel (sic) in the Brain on Tuesday On Tuesday morning last word came to Ebensburg that a man named Peter Hubbard, employed in firing the boilers at Mine No. 13 of the Duncan Spangler Coal Company at Bakerton had been murdered and County Detective J. L. Berkebile and Constable Richard Evans at once drove to the place, but it was found upon an autopsy having been held that death was caused by a rupture of a bloodvessel in the brain, which showed signs of a softening for some time past. Hubbard had been at his work on Monday as usual but did not return to his boarding house that night and on Tuesday morning an employee of the company, in going to work, found his dead body in a clump of bushes on a pathway leading from the mine. The body was lying face downwards and nearby some bottles of beer, with one partly empty. It is supposed that the deceased after quitting work had procured the beer and had partaken of some of it when overcome by the fatal stroke, superinduced probably by the heat of the weather. Hubbard was 50 years of age and was married but had not lived with his family for some time. He has a son living in Johnstown where his wife was visiting at the time of his death. Both started for Barnesboro when notified of the sad occurrence. Child Drowns in Somerset’s Reservoir On Monday morning last Edward Walter, the twelve year old son of Albert Walter of Connellsville, was drowned in the reservoir at Somerset. He had been wadding in shallow water and, slipping on the asphalt bottom, was thrown into eight feet of water and being unable to swim and two youthful companions being unable to save him, he was drowned. Fred Lambert Kittanning, Pa., June 25 While swimming in the Allegheny River at Ford City, Fred Lambert, eleven years old, got into a sand hole and was drowned. The body was recovered. Barnesboro Woman [Mrs. Mary Olair] Johnstown, Pa., June 25 During a severe storm at Barnesboro a foreign woman, whose name has not been learned, was struck by lightning while walking along the railroad and killed. Chester Richard Altoona, Pa., June 25 The jury in the case of Policeman Samuel Werner on trial for slaying Chester Richard returned a verdict of not guilty. Richard was killed while trying to escape arrest.