The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-07-21
NUMBERS KILLED.
A Fatal Explosion and Railroad
Wreck.
Four Persons Killed by IN Explosion ut .
Sunday Picnic-Five Killed In . Wreck
on the West shore Road ut
NeWburg, NY.
Death ut the Picnic.

OdICA0O, July Ao.-Dy TIC pIcIuoCuIe
explosion of fireworks bomb at II
o'clock last night at an Italian picnic
four people were killed and q number
of others injured.
| The bomb was fired from an extern
! ported mortar. and was intended to be
exploded high in the air, the explosion
to be accompanied by shower of bril-
/ liant fire. just as the charge was
about to be fired, there was a deafen-
ing roar and the liquid fire
and burning explosives, together
with the pieces of the mortar
containing the bomb were hurled in
every direction. Hundreds of persons
were standing about the spot and the
flash and the report were followed by
the cries of those stricken to the earth.
No lights were at first to be had and
the dead and wounded lay together be-
meath the feet of those who were able
to escape. Many fell bleeding and
bruised and before they could be cared
for all the lights on the grounds We're
extinguished and increased darkness
added to the panic.
The fire and fragments of the mortar
seemed to pillow their way through the
dense crowd to the outmost circle of
onlookers In moment the picnic
grounds We're the scene of unlimited
confusion. The merry making had
been in progress all evening and at the
approach of darkness those present
concentrated near the spot from which
the display was to emanate. Some pre-
caution had been taken to keep order
among the OnlOollers, and an effort was
started to keep all save those in charge
removed from the stand where the un-
exploded fireworks were stacked up.
This was partly successful, and those
killed and injured were chiefly persons
in charge of the display.
Railroad Wreck.
NEwBURG, N. ", July 14.-West Shore
express No. 1, due here at 1904 p. m,
was wrecked in the West Shore freight
yards yesterday. The train consisted
of a locomotive, a baggage and express
car, smoker, two day coaches and
parlor car. The engineer was Daniel
Shelb and the conductor Richard An
derSon. The train was a few minutes
late at Cornwall, four miles south of
here, and was running very fast. When
it reached the switch. which connects
the main road with the West Shore
freight yard, mile south of the station,
the engine picked up, it is supposed, a
loose object. which caused it to jumpup-
on a frog and leave the track. 1t ran upon
the ties. a distance equal to the length
of the train and then crashed into
freight train standing in the yard. The
crash was terrific. The freight train
was being made up to start south and
was waiting for the express to pass.
The freight engine was in charge of
Fred Holland. The express engine was
evidently further off the track than
the remainder of the train and when
it struck the freight engine it was
to one side and the tender torn
from it.
The first coach was filed with pas
sengers, every seat being occupied.
Nearly all the casualties occurred in
this car. 1t swayed to one side and
struck the projecting end of a box-car
on side-track. The entire
side of the coach was ripped off and the
end nearest the smoker was smashed.
All the killed were on that side.
Four women and a child were found |
dead in the wreck. About twenty per-
sons were seriously injured.
There were about a dozen persons in
the smoking car and they nearly all
injury.