The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-07-17
KILLED.

KILLED
EDWARD DOYLE, cannoneer, Battery F;
blown from caisson or ammunition
chest which exploded.
JEREMIAH DONOVAN, cannoneer, same bat
terry.
JOSEPH CALLER, farrier Seventh cavaly;
body rddled and torn by shot and
pieces of gun carriage.
FRED LoTz, wheel horse driver, Battery E.
Second artillery; body pierced by shot
and wood, died at s p. NJ.
MORTALITY WOUNDED.
MARTIN O'DoNNELL, caunoneer, Second ar
tillery; body pierced by fragments Of
wood
SERGEANT LIDoT, same battery; injured
similar to ODonnell.
INJURED
W. l. ANTH bugler, Seventh cavalry right
shoulder shattered: recoAery doubtful.
j. w. ALLEN, cauuoneer, Second artillery,
upper part Of body burned.
Z. GEORGE HOFFMAN, sergeant, chin shot
away.
ANTHONY KANE, cannoneer, half OF ear
blown off.
DRIVER ENKE, Battery F, blown from
horse to ground: head hurt.
DRIVER PINowsKI, same battery, blown
from horse; cut and bruised.
CANNoNEER URQUHART, same battery. face
and neck burned; right foot pierced by
bullet
TROOPER HUYcK, Seventh cavalry blown
off horse and rendered deaf, bruised and
burned.
RALPH NJ KYERs, boy of 8T Oakland
boulevard, leg pierced and blown off BIZ
cycle.
Mrs. F. A. HOWE, 1881 Grand boulevard,
face and head cut by flying glass while
sitting at window.
Mrs. 5. C. GRIGGs, 3,950 Grand boulevard,
knocked down by explosion, cut by
glass.
Oakwood boulevard, blown from buggy;
mans nose broke woman's face cut.
An unknown woman was seen lying
OIL the stone sidewalk after the
disaster, but she left the scene without
waiting for medical aid.
CITIZEN THROWN TO THE GROUND
Other citizens who followed the
military column was thrown to the
ground, more or less bruised by con-
tact with the ground and their hearin &
temporarily taken from them. At least
S25 600 worth of damage was done tt
The property of the residents on botn
sides OF Grand boulevard for half d
block north OF Oakwood boulevard.
Houses in adjoining streets were also
damaged, principally by broken win
dows and door glass
The ill-fated body of troops were
proceeding south from the lake front
camp along Grand Boulevard at a trot.
Having no rioters to quell or property
to protect the soldiers were out FOL
drill and exercise
Captain Dodd Of Troop f, Third
cavalry, was in command of the
mounted column and was riding in ad
vance, Lieutenant Lyon. of the same
troop, rode beside him Captain Var.
nun, of Troop B, Seventh cavalry
probably owes his life to the fact tina
he had left his command temporarily
and was riding abreast OF Captain
Dodd when the terrible cannonad,
shook the ground like an earthquake
Next to the :hree officers came Lieu.
tenant Tate In command OF Troop +
Third cavalry, from Fort Riley, com.
prising forty men Tue Fort Rile,
calvarymen, followed by Troop Ii, o
the Sixth calvary, Lieutenant Hye
and forty men. TAe third detachmen
In the column wGs the ill-starred sec
tion of Battery +. Lieutenant Gayl
and fourteen men, bearing two Hotch
kiss field pieces and four caissons fillet
with ammunition.
LIKE BURST OF THUNDER
When within 100 feet of Olklant
Boulevard there crashed on the ears O
the soldiers and civilians roar like
burst of thunder followed in an in
slant by succession of sharp ex
plosions. The half daz.d soldiers i,
the rear of the first timbe caisson say
smoke and fame belch from the recent
acle for the death dealing missile
Men, horses and wheels, caisson ant
other parts of the battery rose befor
their Mortified gaze, high in the air
The exploding powder and shot in
clined TO tho rear, which accounts fo
the escape OF all the cavalrymen iron
the Third and Sixth cavalry. The an
tillerymen received the brunt Of tn
explosion, being directly in the rear O
the deadly missiles and ignited powde
which burst from the caisson
Donovan and Doyle were doomed t
death which carried with it no su!
fering, not even an instant OF time
realize their fate. They were sit tin
on the caisson which exploded. Dono
van was blown through the air owe
trees fifty feet high, distance of 80
feet across s vacant lot. dropping o
the Union Stock yards railway track,
Part Of one limb was torn off. Their
was hardly shred OF clothing left o