The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-17

Chicago July ia caiSSon Oh Dat
terry F, Second artillery, U. S. A, ex-
pIoded with terrific force shortly after
1 o'clock this afternoon at Grand and
lakewood boulevards.
Two artillerymen and one trooper I
were instantly killed.
Nearly a score of other persons
troopers, residents in the vicinity and !
passersby, were injured, some of them /
fatally. The list of killed and wounded !
are:
Killed:
]. Donovan, a private, Battery F,
Second artillery.
Edward Doyle, private, Battery F,
Second artillery.
Josph Gaylor, farrier, Troop B, Sew
enth cavalry.
Sergeant Teiner, Battery F, Second
artillery, badly shot through the body;
severely burned with powder. i
Fred Stoltz, private, Second artillery, !
badly burned and wounded about legs;
I will recover.
John Allen, private, Second artillery,
shot III head and neck; fatally injured.
Maurice O'Donnell, private, Second
artillery, shot in the head and powder
burned; may recover.
| c. Encke, driver in rear, private,
/ Second artillery, blown from his horse
| and badly injured; will recover.
John Urquhart, private, Second artil-
! lery, ball of left foot crushed by bull
| let; not serious.
| Herbert Antes, bugler, Troop B, Sew
enth cavalry, shot in shoulder and leg
and arm; will recover.
/ Sergeant Anthony Kane, Troop B,
/ Seventh cavalry, ear shot off.
Sergeant George Hoffman, Troop B,
! Seventh cavalry, shot in chin.
! Corporal Abraham Riley, Battery F,
! Second artillery, thrown to the ground
and badly bruised.
Sergeant King, Battery f, Second ar
tillery, thrown from horse and bruised
Unknown artilleryman; thrown from
horse, picked up unconscious. injuries
slight.
Unknown boy, thrown from bicycle,
injured about the legs.
Miss Alice York 4,1O3 Grand bouIe-
ward. tendon Of heel severed by bull
let.
Mrs. E. c. Huling, 1880 Grand boule-
ward, severely cut and injured in her
home by falling glass.
I The troops left Brighton park for a
long march around the city to exercise
their horses. They were in command
of CAPTAIN Dodd, of troop F, Third
cavalry. and consisted of troop F.
B. 1nlTQ cavalry, ~ In6n, JTOOD IL, SlXIn
cavalry, Lieutenant Tate, 40 men; pIa-
toon of battery F, Second artillery,
two guns, Lieutenant Gale, % men;
troop B, Seventh cavalry Captain
Varnum, 80 men.
Looked Like Battlefield.
The men marched in this order.
Everything went smoothly and there
were no incidents until the column
marched south on Grand boulevard
q
ward. where a terrific explosion oc-
lcurred. The men on the caisson, sup
Iposed to be Donovan and Doyle, We're
literally blown to pieces and others
were thrown many feet by the vio-
Hence of the conclusion. -Four of the
horses drawing the caisson fell in their
tracks, shot through and through and
were blown fifty feet ahead against
1.-THE trees on the boulevard, dying in
stantly. The caisson was blown to
pieces, not a piece larger than mans
hand being found. The boulevard
looked like a battlefield.
There was a quick series of explos-
ions after the first report and shrap-
J mel shot rained like hail among the
trees on the boulevard and pierced
1.-THE surrounding dwellings,. The con-
lcussion broke every window in the
/ houses for blocks away. The walls
ldnu TOOLS SHOW6Q IHS CSTTlDl6 GIIGCLS
} lof the explosion The rear part of the
5 Icaisson lay scattered over the ground
with the explosion came the confusion
of the troops, and for a moment the
men and officers seemed powerless to
move. To this was added the fright
f of the occupants of the surrounding
) houses. who ran screaming from their
r dwellings, only to be sickened by the
: sight in the street.
. A still alarm of fire had been turned
lin and with the department came the
stock yards police patrol wagon. The
wagon was sent back to the station
F land with it returned twenty-five under
: command of Lieutenant MorriSy. He
then telephoned to Hyde park for re-
Inducements. and Captain Dollard ar
5 rived with twenty-five more men. Lat
Ter Inspectors Hunt and Fitzpatrick
i and Lieutenant Bonfield arrived. 1T
a was some little time before the dead
artilerymen could be found. One of
: them, mangled beyond recognition
y supposed to be Doyle, had been blown
!, lover a board sign twenty-five feet
q high and was found in q vacant lot
behind it. One leg and an arm were
4 gone. Another man. supposed to be
;. Donovan, had been thrown about 30C
9 feet diagonally to the right, and was
+ Shore tracks Joseph Gaylor was
J found near where he was struck
: General Miles directed Captain Mich
= Her and Colonel Willitson, of the com
= Imissary department. and a former
: commander of the battery, to the
scene of the accident to secure a re-
Ipoyt of the affair. On the return OF
!, Willitson, he gave the following ac-
: !, count of the accident, preparatory tc
= = writing his report:
n Gen. Miles Report.
1.-THE command under the escort O.
g lcavalry was taking its marching exer
e else. The caison consists of a timber
e lon which is chest and the carriage
I containing two chests more of ammu
t milton, making three chests on the
lcaisson. The explosion occurred in thu
lchest Of the timber and the force O.
!, the explosion was to the rear, tearing
!. laway the caisson and igniting the pow
n Ider in the other two chests. The frs
S lcaisson carried forty-two shrapnel ant
: lforty-four cartridges. The shrapnel ar,
Headed percussion shell, containing full
n inmates and small balls and are firet
i from the cannon by a cartridge con
l. ltaining, as in this case, three and three
= lquarters pounds of powder. My the
n Tory of the accident is that the screw
Iplug at the base of one Of the shrapne