Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-07-14

TtnnInLK AccrprSr Yesterday evening be-
tween and o'clo~k q loud report a. Of very
heavy ordnance. Was heard all over the city.
Many supposed IL was signal gun Of son sort.
aud hat little attention given To H. Soon.
however. IL became nosed about that she'll had
exploded In a caisson Of the 18th Michigan bat
terv, ~hich arrived here dsy or two ago. and
had killed tvo men and fearfully woanded one
man and two boys The excitement in the neigh
borhood where the accident occurred in
tense. and the rush 10 the scene Of disaster was
20 great that IL was deemed prudent TO station
force OF cavalry At the several street crossings
leading To the scene 90 keep back the crOsd.
The battery "a. under orders TO leave With the
force going east under Gen Carington. and Il
vas driving from camp IN the northwest part Of
the city At iulI gallop down Indiana avenue.
Just at the inierssciion OF the avenue with New
ork and Tennessee streets. . percussion she'll IN
the third caisson exploded. making the most per
feet wreck Of the wagon and box that could be
conceived. The two men seated the caissor
were blown fifty feet high IN the air. and the body
Of one landed thirty yards south on Tennessee
street passing over a new building on the corner.
and the other fell fully that distance east. on
New York street The legs and arms were
blown from both bodies. One leg picked
up by Mr. Grand Young near the marke; house.
over a square distant aud foot and portion of
another leg found At still greater distance.
The bodies we're fearfully mangled. Another of
the men had Of his legs blown of and j.
otherwise injured, but IL i said may recover.
number Of boys were playing neir one Of the d.
agonal corners One, son of Mr. Bert, about
twelve wears of age. was badly mangled either by
the fragments Of the she'll or the wagon, that he
died an hour after the accident. and another.
whose name we could not learn had his thigh
broken. Several others were more or less in
jured but not seriously. The boys waving
their hats and cheering the battery il was dash
ing past.
The conclusion was described a. terrible in the
neighborhood and il must have been from the
evidence of its effects The windows of the
houses al shatier for some distance on all
the streets diverging from that point The glass
IN all the houses of Beach's Row is broken, the
window frames broken. and the shutters torn
nearly off Judge Wick's residence suffered bad
". In the grocery store. on the corner Of the
avenue and Tennessee street. the goods from the
shelves were all thrown into pile on the floor
Fragments of tho caisSon and OF the wheels OF
the wagon we're thrown in every direction and
scraps OF iron and wood were picked up several
squares distant
There NAV have been Others injured and re
port saws there were. but IN the confusion those
We have 3amed we're all We could hear OF.
The accident was causei by the careless pack
ing of the shells and the friction caused by the
iOlting Mt the high rate OF speed at which the
battery was moving
The names of the killed are John Gearm and
William Stacey, and the wounded man is Fer
dinpnd X mig.
Kannig died abort eleven o'clock last night