The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-04-03

ing is the result of the election held
on Monday, in Ohio Township. War
rick County, Indiana. Ohio Town
ship is sound to the core:
For Township Trustee-W. w.
Slaughter, Republican, by majority
ofe1, with another Republican in the
field who got So votes. gaa
h For Justice of the Peace-P. Seigle,
Republican, without opposition, re-
ceived 3l2 votes. ~ 49, .l4..i IS .sa,l
For Constable-A. Mathews, Re-
publican, by majority of 122.
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ANOTHER TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.
FIVE PERSONS KILLED AND Two
WOUNDED. From Mr. Henry Bur-
bank, who arrived from Green River
last night On the Plain City. we learn
that the engine of portable saw mill
belonging to Mr. John Gilman, of
this city, and which was being oper-
ated by his sons, on the farm of a Mr.
Denton,in Henderson County, Ken
lucky, and on the road leading from
Henderson to Curdsyille. exploded
yesterday morning killing five persons,
including the engineer, the head
and tail " sawyers, and two lads of
Is to 20 years, named Tilleson, and
scalding two others. The names of
none of the other parties were ascer-
tanned, except Mr.. Burbank s inform
ant heard the name :" Ben" men
toned. Mr.. Burbank heard the ex-
plosion very distinctly, but supposed
it was blasting in coal mine. The
mill was being run by men from this
city, and we shall await for their in
telligence with painful anxiety Mr..
Burbank, who is operating mill near
by, entertains no doubt as to the COR
rectness of the information. The in
|ltelligence was brought to Curdsville
by the mail carrier, who had seen a
man that helped remove some of the
bodies which were blown into creek
near which the mill was being oper-
ated. i'a sno %. Ho - s
LATER. = bHa qeai's
Since the above was in type boat
has arrived from Green River, bring
ing the remains of two of the victims
of this terrible catastrophe. From
Jack Hitch we learn the following
particulars: ssii ~ salgssa .feyfsa s
They had just pumped up the boil
er and generated steam enough to put
/ the engine in motion suf6cientto lin
Der the belts, and had stopped the
engine to make sufficient steam to run
the machinery, having then but Is
pounds instead of 100, which was re-
quired to properly run tho machinery.
Hitch, who was employed to remove
the sawdust, asked Ben Gilman to go
short distance from the mill to a
little elevated spot to amuse them
selves while steam was generating.
They had been gone but few min
utes when the engineer called Gilman
to him. In another moment, the ex-
ploslon took place. a#isV
Hitch saw lad named Charley
Tilleson, who seemed to be injured,
and ran to him, when he saw Ben.
Gilman in the creek and rushed to
his assistance, and gathered him out
of the water. He found both his legs
| and his skull broken. He lived about
half an hour. The engineer, named
| Manahala, from this city, was liter
! ally torn to pieces-one arm being
driven into his body in such a man
ner that it could not be extracted.
He was instantly killed. William
Tilleson was blown up into tree,
fifty yards distant. striking it thirty
feet. froms the ground. These three
only we're killed Charley Tilleson
had all his teeth Knocked out. and
was otherwise injured, but will re-
cover. - - Zg@aa1 -3ss.l
A negro boy and, the off-bearer
4 were slightly injured Gilman was
blown fifty yards into the creek.
Jack Hitch escaped with one boot
heel torn off by a fragment. The
explosion was of terrible force.
Pieces of. the boiler were thrown a
distance, Of 800 yards; branches were
blown from the trees, and the trees
themselves were filed with pieces of
boards, iron, &c., driven into the body