The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-07-18

terry +, Seconds artillery, United States
army. exploded with terrible force short
" after 1 o'clock this afternoon at Grand
and oaSwood boulevards. Two artillery
men and one trooper We're instantly
killed. Nearly a score of other persons,
troops, residents in the vicinity and
passersby-were injured, some of them
fatally. The list of the killed and
wounded is as follows.
Killed.
J. DONOVAN. private, Battery r,
Second artillery.
EDWARD DOYLE. private. Battery
e. Second artillery
JOSEPH GAYLoR. Troop b. Seventh
cavalry.
Wounded:
sergt. Letner. Battery Z. Second ar
tinery, badly shot through the body,
severely hssned with powder about face
and head. recovery doubtful
Fred stolz. private. Second artilley,
badly burned and wounded about legs;
viii recover.
John Allen. private. Second artillery.
shot in the head and neck; fatally in
jured
Maurice O'Donnell, private, Second ar
tinery. shot in the head, powder burned.
C. Encke, driver blown from his horse
and badly injured; win recover.
John Urquahart, private, Second ar
tllery. ball of left foot crushed by a bull
let: not serious.
Herbert Antes. bugler. Troop b. Seventh
cavalry, shot in shoulder and leg and
arm; viii recover.
sergt. Anthony Kane. Troop b, Seventh
cavalry, ear shot off.
Sergt. George Hoffman. Troop 3,
Seventh cavalry. shot in chin.
Corporal Abraham Riley. Battery +,
Second artillery thrown to the ground
and badly bruised.
Sergt. King. Battery 3, Second artillery,
thrown from horse and bruised.
Unknown artilleryman thrown from
horse picked up unconscious; injuries
slight.
~ 81,
Injured about the legs.
Miss Alice York. 41OS Grand boulevard,
tendon Of heel severed by bullet
Mrs Z. c. Huhllng. 1890 Grand boule-
ward, severely cut and injured I'm her
home by flying gless.
The troops left Brighton park for n
long march around the city 10 exercise
the horses. They were in command Of
Capt Dodd of troop r, Third cavalry,
and consisted Of troop +, Third cavalry.
forty men; troop E, Sixth cavalry, Lieut..
Tate, forty men: platoon Of battery T..
Second artillery, two guns, Lieut.. Gayle.
twenty-three men; troop B, Seventh
cavalry, Capt. Varnum. forty men.
The men marched in this order. Every
thing went smoothly and there were no
incidents until the column marching
south on Grand boulevard was just cross
ing Oakland bOulevards Then a terrific
explosion occurred. The men on the
caisson. supposed to be Donovan and
Doyle, were literally blown to pieces ana
others were thrown many feet by the
violence of the concussion.
The Horses MnngIed.
Four of the horses, drawing the caisson.
fell in their tracks, shot through and
horribly mangled, while three others were
blown fifty feet ahead against the trees
on the boulevard, dying instantly.
The caisson was blown to atoms, not a
piece of it larger than a mans hand
being found. The boulevard looked like
a battlefield.
There was a quick series Of explosions
after the first report and shot rained like
hail on the trees on the boulevard and
pierced the surrounding dwellings.
The conclusion broke every window in
the houses for blocks away. The walls
and roofs of the dwellings showed the
terrific effect of the missiles. Unex-
ploded Shells Of the rear part OF the
caisson lay strewn over the ground.
With the explosion came great confusion
OF the troops and for moment the men
and officers seemed pOwerless TO move.
To this was added the fright Of the oc-
cupants Of the surrounding houses, who
ran screaming from their dwellings, only
to be sickened by the sight In the street.
A still alarm of fire had been turned in
and with the department came the patrol
wagon. The wagon was sent back 10 the
station and Il returned with twenty-five
men under command OF Lieut.. Morrissey.
He then telephoned TO Hyde park for
reinforcements and soon Capt. Dollard
arrived with twenty-five men. Later
Inspectors Hunt and Fitzpatrick and
Lieut.. Bonfield arrived.
II was some little time before the two
dead artillery men could be found. One
Of them was mangled beyond recogni-