The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-09-25

Green. The explosion shivered the ELL
crossing the window, and blew out the
west side of the office This let down
the floor between the first and second
story. II fell against the partition be
tween the Office and the Corbin sleeping
department. The daughter, Osca, was
thrown into the cellar. The baby was
found safe in the bedding. The servant,
Della Glass, came down stairs with a
light, and assisted in collecting the scat
tered sleepers. Mrs Corbin WAS not in
iured; Corbin is now lying upon the only
bed in the house available, the plaster
ing scattered about and everything In
confusion His injuries are not danger
GUS, unless the ConcussiOn about his lett
lung is more dangerous than now sup
posed. A piece of glass was taken from
the skull near the left ear; his two upper
Cuspid teeth are broken off, and jaw
| tooth knocke out. He was able 10 con-
verse, but very weak. The appearance
of Corbn's Hotel battles description.
Combine all the adjectives in the vocab
ulary with the widest conception OF a
chaos of beams, rsfters, shingles, lath,
plastering-everything used in the con
struction of large frame building, and a
faint idea may be formed of the scene
presented. Almost the entire front OF
the house was blown away, revealing a
picture of ruin to which nothing could
be added to make it more complete. The
large, wide veranda which had stood in
| front, and was a part of the house, had
been piled up on heap upon the side
walk. Inside the house could be seen
the interior of bedrooms, yet furnished
with mattress, sheets and covers, and
upon these were heaped the dusty de-
bris. The southwest corner of the house
under which the powder had exploded,
was of course the most completely ruin
ed. The elegant residence of Mrs. Bar
keep, which stood within a yard of the
hotel, was sorry sight. A hole ten feet
in diameter had been blown in the Is
inch wall, while the rest of the wall Of
| the front room was bowed in for several
feet; the windows were all blown out,
the elegant furniture destroyed, and the
frescoed walls entirely ruined. called
on Mrs. Barkeep this afternoon, and she
was preparing to move what little furni
ture she had left into another of her
dwelling houses, of which she has sew
eral in the town. She was very intel
ligent, active widow lady of about 50
She was remarkably composed under
the circumstances Leaving the work of
packing without her supervision, she
offered all the information she could
give; and conversation was had, dur.
ing which she stated the following: IL
was awakened by terrible roar, and al
most stupifed with fear for an instant.
The door Ia side one, on the other side
of the house from the hotel, was blown
open, the glass in it and the window was
blown out, furniture dashed about and
broken, and l was covered with litter
of almost everything in the room; and
strange to say, was not injured at all;
nothing striking my head and face
dragged myself out of bed with some
difficulty and attempted to reach the
door, but could not for distractions.
While standing and wondering what on
earth to do with myself, some one came
and helped me out. $4,000 will not near
cover my loss. l was insured in the
Home Insurance company for $4,000, but
| have been told that | cannot recover
anything on account of the character of
the destruction. | have carried the in.
suranCe for several years, and have paid |
out great deal in premiums, and it does
seem to me l ought to realize something
from it. My frat impression when ava
kening was, that the noise was made by
house on the opposite side of the road,
which for some time has been consider
ed unsafe. | have never been annoyed |
by the Corbins, and although strongly |
censure his business, still | must say this |
much for him, l have always found him |
ready to grant any favor l might ask Of |
him. With bis family l have never had |
any friendly intercourse, but l have
never had any trouble, nor have l been
annoyed by it. l regret sincerely that
he has sustained bodily injuries. l am
undecided yet as to whether / shall re-
build, but l suppose will. Yes, sir;
was alone in the house, and for that rea-
son slept here. Had l been in my
usual sleeping apartment, surely would
have been blown to atoms" The COM
plete list of damages would he hard to
give. The principal ones were given in
my first dispatch. VIM. Fields, bar.
ber, whose shop is on corner of State and
Main streets, but step from the explo.
sion, was considerably damaged. The
roof of the building, a two story Frame.
had been set back about an inch. He
stated that at about 2 o'clock he was
oulaan IN hia roo;danoa oaYDar ra fa a nd In
the rear of the corner building. He
was awakened by his wife who heard
strange noises in stable in the rear of
Corbin's hotel. Il sounded as though
some one was soaring some horses that
were in the stable Soon after, he heard
some three or four men, he thought,
tramping around in the back yard, but
as men were in the habit of climbing
the fence and entering the saloon by
rear entrance, he thought no more of it.
He heard one of the men say "stiCk to the
horse" twice, and few moments later
the noise ceased. About ten minutes
later the explosion occurred. He believes
the work was done by citizens of the
town. Windows, apparently out of
range of the botel, and block off, were
shattered into small pieces. The bust
ness men all rushed to their stores, sup
posing the safes we're blown open. The
report was heard at Sunbury, nine miles
away, There are photographs in Wes-
terville of the saloon which was blown
up, after three unsuccessful attempts in
July and August of 1875. There were
no persons then in the building. Cor
bin had large patronage during the
fair, and the remark was heard that he
was making too much money. The fam
lily were all alone, because they were
resting after the fair. The stock in the
saloon was not valued at more than $50
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