Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-07-17

passers-by were Injured, some OF them
fatally. The list of
THE KILLED AND WOUNDED
I is as follows:
Killed.. Donovan, private, Bat
terry f. Second Artillery; Finward
Doyle, private, Battery F, Second Ar
tilery; Joseph Gaylor, farrier, Troop
r, Seventh Cavalry.
! Wounded--Sergeant Leimer, Battery
F, Second Artillery, badly SHOT through
| the body. severely burned with powder
about face and head; recovery doubt
full; Fred Stolz, private, Second
Artillery, badly burned and wounded
about legs and will recover; John
Allen, private, second artillery, shot Ia
head and neck, fatally injured; Maurice
O'Donnell, private, second artillery,
shot in the head ard powder burned,
may recover; S. Encke, driver ia rear,
private, second artillery, blown from
bis horse and badly injured, will re-
cover; John UrQuhart, private,
second artillery, ball OF left
foot crushed by bullet,
UOU sbTlUuS, IlCi OClb AnbCos bhRANAs
troop B, Seventh Cavaly, shot in the
shoulder and arm, will recover; Ser
geant Anthony Kanz. troop i, Seventh
Cavaly, ear shot off; Sergeant George
Hoffman, troop, Seventh Csvaly, shot
in chin; Corporal Abraham Riley,
Battery F, Second Artiley, thrown to
the ground and badly bruised; Sergeant
King, battery f, Second artillery,
thrown from horse and brusied un-
known artillery man, thrown from
horse, picked up unconscious, injuries
slight; unknown boy, thrown from BIZ
cycle, injured about the legs; Miss Alice
York, 4l03 Grand boulevard, tendon Of
heel severed by bullet; Mrs. +. c. Huh
ling, 1890 Grand boulevard, severely cut
and injured in her home by falling glass.
THE TROOPS LEFT BRIGHTON PARK
for long march around the city to ex-
ercise the horses Everything went
smoothly and there were no incidents
until the column marching south on
| Grand boulevard was just crossing oak
wood boulevard. Then terrible ex-
ulosion occurred. The men on the
caissoE, supposed to be Donovan and
Doyle, were literally blown TO pieces and
others were thrown many feet by the
violence of the concussion. Four OF
the horses drawing the caissoD fell la
their tracks, shot through and horribly
mangled, while three Others were
blown fttv feet ahead against the trees
on the Boulevard, dying instantly. The
caisson was blown to atoms, not piece
of IL larger than mans hand being
found The Boulevard looked like
battle field.
There was quick series Of explosions
after the first report and
sHRAPSEL SHOT RAISED LIKE HAIL
among 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.
| Upexploded shells OF the the rear part
Of the calsson lay strewn over the
ground. With the explosion came great
confusion OF the troops, and for mo-
ment the men and officers seemed pow
erless. To this was added the fright
| OF the occupants OF the surrounding
houses, VINO ran screaming from their
dwellings, only to be sickened oy the
sight.
Geuersl Miles said: my theory Of
the accident is that the screw plug al
the base of one OF the shrapDel became
Ioosened, some OF the powder leaking
out and being ground aud pounded by
the iolting Of the lumber, iFnited.
Then the powder in the cartridges eI-
uloded and the ignition Of the cart
ridges in the other two chests followed.
In The second chest on the caisson were
twenty-six time shells, sixteen shrapnel
and their compliment Of forty-four
cartrId ges; 10 the third and rear chest
were forty-two: shells and forty-four
cartridges, The
FORCE OF THE EXPLOSION
can be more readily understood when Ii
is remember that the 132 cartridges
contained 495 pounds OF powder. The