BLATCHLEY PORTER
Arizona Republican Newspaper
August 3, 1895

Flagstaff-- yesterday morning at the Grand Canyon, Blatchley and 
Lewis Porter and Arthur S. Renton, visitors from Stanford, Conn. 
left Tolfree Hotel to visit Bissell Point. On their return a 
thunderstorm overtook them and they shought shelter under the 
cover of a hanging rock.  A thunderbolt struck the rock and 
Blatchley Porter was instantly killed and Lewis Porter and 
Arthur Renton were thrown from under the rock and rendered 
unconscious.  Renton was the first to recover and thinks he 
was unconscious for half an hour. He found Blatchley Porter 
dead and Lewis unconscious.  He started for the hotel, some 
three miles, for aid. In the meantime Lewis Porter recovered 
and being dazed, lost his way and did not reach the hotel 
until 3 pm. He was badly burned on the shoulders and back, 
his hair singed and his clothing burned in several places.  
Renton is severaly burned.  The dead man was a Yale student 
and was on vacation.

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