New-York tribune., 1884-11-27
KILLED BY AN EAPLVoiVN'
. .c.vrp,par THAT WENT OFF TOO SOON
s~. w.x woprArLY WOUNDED AND ASo'"""
vS~ ,,x,tv TO LOSE MS SIGHT.

,,xrIv TO LOSE MS SIGHT,
The premature explosion OF g'n, npcT pp~pv another
3 essy s s tho body Of third besides covering
him w,e S,ssfii dS lSrss aud ST. ScnoS,
Scpa,s''a and 'sc sSs Tho
~ ,,,n",sH crowd whccamc FROM far and near
man Who wns passing within abort als1"nScdY, .a,d
Che scene Of tho ncsden, p wnI" heard for mie 0de.
tne Nv the siso OF tho crowd " n,,rt.''Ti W., ;hs
w., Of ,he men who were IN tho t,enon Tn'" eh ,"
cartridge exploded say that =" "''" "'"AV ''''"
"'IIS xIout three weeks ago Contractor William
Ri,ey' OF Manhattanyille TOOK % c%9n,laos
g., @'sEse s from st. Nicholas
60 Tenth The bottom was OF roeH ana and sSns
found necessary to use s,ctn IA" trench was
\" he duo 10 depth OF thItcon and half feet and
tu be five feet wide at the bottom. a portioh oi
the trench had been due to the required deptn anu
.iohn Mccormick, Patrick Dugan, Patrick NC
p"nough and Roger Casey were at work in yester-
aay According to Dugan, who was aoie 10 talh
TO n TRIBUNE reporter last evening, McO%oiinaeHH, % A.
the forcmax was rammiTg the cartridge wheh II
exploded. When asked why It was being ra;n,cut, % ~
Dgan replied; h6s ahere euSh to bigger
than the cartridge he continued but something
NAV have got in the way, and he took wooden
pole to it down, don't know what IN apPemod %en
came to found myself on poor McDon99"sn n9 n,c
body: The clothes were all hrot torn on ON ne @i
,r, thought sm eut aud bruised good deal but if It
wasn't tor my eyes believe could get UP anu ~
mud enid. He lives at Northumberland eighty.
flth-st and che Boulevard. lie gave ms accoun1
of the accident while lying on Go, S,rent aa ' Hosnita
The accident occurred at noon ana oelo.c onoon
hospital ambulance was on tine spIII
ahth Of and Tenth-aye and John Motor
mex of One-hundred-and forty y-irst-sst. and
,hS we're So,ua prc'd Mebonoush 5o ded ned
The left side of his face was crushed in. His head
presented ig s dowa wai in e
until he died. He had wife and SIX chiioieh anu
was fOrty-iivc years OF age , ,. h
Mccormick was struck in the face and breast Dy
n mass of small stones and earth HIS lett hand nan.
and part of his arm skinned and he was badiy
lacerated in several places His eyes receveu we ile
said that be was unable to say whether OF NOT
the man would lose his sight McCorinick. com
planned of terrible pam IN his eyes ne rbidreS II i
His mother called to see nm last evening, i"
bitterly at the sight of his bandaged head. lie is
not allowed to use his eyes. A.. .uo,oh nc
capea almost tI Innhnrt. Ills injuries consisted Of a
few scratches to which he paid no atten1 item
his drlller were not hurt. but were bad.
iy frightened. The explosion tore up the
rrOuud a fashion that promised to icy
Iron into the trench To save it from this fate It's
position was changed. Mccormick, who had the
iemerty to ram the cartridge, said that TINS was
often dOne.p .,,
shortly after o'clock a young man, Alexander
Hall. was taken to the Ninety-ninth street iosI ios,
itaI also suffering from the result OF blast. iiail
was nj lced in the hospital tent. where a 1RiBCNE
,oporter saw him last evening He told the iollow-
ing story of the accident: ~ was standing on SIX
fyoeiehfl-st about block and half from where
tLev are blasting at Sixty-nintl-st. and Ninth-ave
was taking to INV brother. We heard the blast
and had got out of its road. as we Thought Some
time after we heard the report was strlck on the
head by "A niece of wood they tell me. IL stunned
Inc so qnckly that didn't finish the word had
besuu don't know how big the piece on w1ou w1
md 70 cut a cash In INV head don't know what
Tie contractors name Is but he doesn't know any
,h;ng ohout blasts When he lets of blast the
in,,s,.s around there are bonharded with stonSe;
H. nueht 10 pe stopped before he kills somebody"