The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-07-17

effect Of the explosion. The rear part of
the caisson lay scattered over the ground.
With tho explosion came tho confusion
OF tho troops and for tho moment the men
and officers seemed powerless to move.
sIc.,ENED BY THE SIGHT.
To this was added the fright OF the o.
cupants of the surrounding houses, who
ran from their dwellings only to b sick.
ened by the sight In the street. A still
alarm Of fire had been turned In and with
tho department came the stock yards po'
lice patrol wagon. The wagon was sent
back to the station and with II returned
% mon under command OF Lieutenant
Morrissey. He then telephoncd to Hyde
Park for endorsements, and Captain
Dollard nrriveu with q moro mon.
Later inspectors Hunt and Fitzpatrick
and Lieutenant B0nfleld arrived. II was
some little time before tho two dead artil.
lerymen could be found. One OF them
was mangled beyond recognition. sup.
posed to be Doyle. He had boon blown
over . board sign 26 feet high and was
round In vacant lot behind II. One leg
and one arm wero gone.
One other man, supposed to bs Dono.
van, had been thrown about 800 feet di.
agonslly to the right and was found In .
vacant lot near tho Lake Shore tracks.
Joseph Gaylor was found near whore he
was struck.
INVESTIGATING IT.
General Miles directed Captain Michiler
and Colonel Willitson, Of the commissary
department. and former commander Of
the battery. to the scene Of tho accident
to secure report Of the affair. On the
return Of Williston he gave the following
account Of the accident. preparatory 10
writing his report:
"The command, under an escort Of cav.
airy, was taking its marching exercise.
Tho caisson consists Of timber on which
IL . chest and carriage containing two
chests more of ammunition. making three
chests on the caisson. The explosion &C.
CURED In the chest Of the timber and the
force Of the explosion was to the rear,
tearing away the caisson and ignitina the
powder In the other two chests. The drst
caisson carried e shrapnel and a cart.
ridges. Ny theory Of the accident 10 that
the screw plug at the base Of ono Of the
shrapnel bscame looseued, some Of the
powder leaked out and being ground and
pounded by tho jolting of the timber, ig.
nited tho powder In tho cartridges, die.
charged them and the ignition Of the car.
tridges In tho othor chests followed.
In the second chest on tho Gals.
son were 25 time shells, 16 shrapnel
and their complement Of a cartridges; In
tho third and rear chests were A. shell and
A cartridges. Tho force OF tho explosion
can be more readily understood when Il 10
known that 1b2 cartridges contained l26
pounds Of powder.
"The men who were In the detachment
said they recognised two distinct reports.
seemingly almost simultaneous. This was
| the timber chest, followed almost instantly
by the other chests. The rattle of the
explosions that followed the great detona.
tion was the bursting OF the shrapnel rs
they struck together. Tho men on the
caisson were lifted by tho explosion, while
the horses were killed by the missiles from
the shrapnel."
ITALIANS WOULDN'T WORK.
Special Dispatch to the standard
LIVINGSTON, July 16.-This morning Su.
perintendent Finn sent . gang Of 30
Italians who had been brought up from
the Yellowstone division, Eve miles west
Of Livingston, to repair . small bridge
burned yesterday. When the Italians
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