The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-09-25
A DASTARDLY DEED.
a Hotel Blown Up because the Proprietor
Refused to stop Selling Liquor.
CoLu,tnus. ONO. Sent. Is. II

NOb'pAtDS OitIOt sept. Id, l6ID.
Westorville, in this county, the head
quarters OF Otterbein University and The
backbone OF the political prohibition
should incarceratc some incorporate tenn
perance people In the penItentiary.
-Four years ago Henry COrbin, saloon
keeper, waS ordered to cease selling
| liquor i'll Westerville or abide by the cor.
sequences. lie WAS arrested many times
swearing and for all possible crimes, but
he refused TO give =, and declared his
intention Of staying by his saloon as
long as he wanted to. Ono night a small
building, In which his saloon was situu-
tcd, was badly damaged by AN explosion
OF can noIRunpowder, OF which some one
had placed In tho bar-rOom. Tho affair
created great excitement, and the leading
men OF the Viilage-prcachcrs, teachers
and doctOrs-Were arrested, and an at.
tempt was made TO discover who placed
the powder in Corbin's building, but all
to no purpose.
Corbin then removed his family from
Wcstcrvillc, but recently returned and
opened tho COrbin Hotel and Saloon.
Ills rC.urn awakened all the hostility
formerly manifested toward him, and.
socially, he was ostracized. Last night,
at iato hour, an explosion shook tho
| entire village, and pcoL,o rushed out to
find tho Corbin House IL ruins and MANY
heighDorlng houses more or less dam
| aged: Although there %n, a number of
people In tho hotel at the time, no one
was injured except Corbin, and he il
badly hurt, having had his teeth knocked
out, hole made In his head and his chest
hurt by heavy timbers, which fell on
h1m from an upper story.
mrs: Corbin, who was uninjured, says
that from tho nature of the explosion
ahe Is confident that the powder was
placeu directly under the room occupied
by Mr. Corbin, his wifo, babe and two
small children. Her first knowledge of
the trouble was the explosion, followed
III ;,t once by tho crash OF falling tim bors.
Tho bod sho occupied with her husband
ana babe was blown from under them,
ana two children, occupying another
Ded. woro thrown into the cellar, but
found her husband under fallen tlmbers,
anu too much injured to rise. This
morning committee appointed Dy the
mayor made investigation, and decided
that the explosion was caused by largo
quantity Of gunpowder, which was
paced III the cellar and ignited by q fuse
leading from the street.
Last night two twenty-six pound kegs
or gunpOwdcr were stolen from n village
store, and this was doubtless used by tho
uaStarus who did this deed. CitiZons re-
port that just before the o. 1losion two
ASii WI SccH HcaT tno IlOtel WIN q dark
lantern, but no ono thought their pres
enco sufficiently suspicious to warrant
an interference with their movements.
q Tho citizens say that they regret the
explosion, because IL will injure tho tom
Peranco cause; but, although Corbin and
his family have boen rendered homeless
and penniless by this outrage, no one
has como forward to offer them shelter or
comfort: The loss by tho explosion will
DO about $4,000, some half dozon build
ings being more or less injured.