Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-07-17

PF Third cavalry. and |
 leH of Troop F, Third cavalry. 10 |
 Troop F., Sixth cavalry, Lieutenant |
 cs, 10 men; platoon of Battery F, Sec | nd artillery, two guns, Lieutenant Gayle, | '23 men; Troop Bs Seventh cavalry, Cap tain varnum, 10 men. The men marched In this order. ~ , Everything wciit smoothly. and there ;,, ssi no incidents gntil the column march .-ssI outh on Grand boulevard was just st,Frr,a,s Oakyood boulevard. Then -a Tha xplo1on occur~ess..
 | f, Uh tho cAisson, supposed to pD ps ' and Doyle, were literally M MoioMh .o IL and others were thrown many many pcct " m , vfoicnee of the concus- M sioh ., ,o' .1s. horses drawing the cais. s-., son .,ti -. iI' u I lcks, shot through and ,! noitio'! t., while three others wero t,1' uLomn ,',o, To .'':.. against the trees on '' 'no ~ ,',','.,, . instantly. The cais soI' was MaS Dlo"" ~ "' .Tis. not a piece of it n,,I nnIeer th"ii H man iI hand bsins found. 1 There was a quick a-Is = ,I,.;. ~ ~a,er ,"v hS. and shrapncl shot 1 ,alnou HH' "''t hong the trees on the nouio'aIu ",,u s P',f fved the surrounding aWeIiings ihe 4oncussion broke every | Mhioo" III ths houses for blocks away. l Inc wars niu roofs of tho dwellings snoweI shs terL lflc effect of tho missiles. IheXpiodeu sheia ias in the rear of the cais- son iS % over the ground.
 "Nn ,ho .N Iiosion came great eonfu- siUe~oI oI tno Ia,Dps. and for moment the men al Jcers seeThed powerless td move. To fnis was added tho fright of the occupants of the surrOunding houses. who ran screaming from their dwellings. only to Dc sickened by tho sight in the street.
 Police and Bremen Hand.
 A still alarm of fire had been turned in, and with tho fro department cnmo the stockynrds police patrol wagon. The wag- on was sent back to the station, and it returned with n inen under command of Lieutenant Morrissey. Ho then tclc- phoncd to Hyde park for re achievements and soon Captain Dollard arrived with 25 moro men. Later Inspectors Hunt and Fitzpatrick and Lieutenant BOnfe!d ar rived.
 It was sonic little time before the two dead artillerymen could bc found One of them, mangled beyond recognition, but supposed to be Doyle, had been blowr over n board sign 25 feet high and wa ; found in a vacant lot behind 1t. One les and an arm were gone. The other man supposed to be Donovan. had been throwI , about 800 feet diagonally to the righ and was found in vacant lot near tn , Lake shore tracks. Joseph Gaylor wa . found near where he was struck. , Great damage was wrought by the cx | plosion to neighboring property. Win | dows in most of the surrounding house , were blown out, and the damage to resi
 dcncc and park property in the neighbor
 hood of the accident Is estimated at abOu Slo,OOO.
 The house of F.. c. Huehiing was dam . aged to the extent of about 1000, mos = of the windows being completely demol . ished. One of the shells struck the to n of tho house and tore away part of tn
 foof. Another shell struck between on
 of tho bay windows and tho wall of Nil
 Huehling's house and stuck in this DC ,- sition.
 r. J. B. Custer of 39aS Grand boulevar O lives directly opposite where the accidcr r. occurred, and he sustained loss of abou l. Si,5O0. 4 large piece of one of the wheel ), of the gun carriage was blown throug d his sitting room window and carried ava
 n largo lamp which stood in tho window
 The house of Sam Foster, attorney for tl
 Grand Trunk road, suffered loss of abo1 le sliOO0, having every window in tho hou. Id dows torn to pieces
 n At the homo Of M. G. Dodgc, 3aa5 Gran
 boulevard, the loss was about S1O0, mos
 ly in plato glass windows and woOdwoT . around the rooms. Tho house of F. Howe, 393I Grand boulevard, was one = | the buildings most ualnagpd- HIS loss estim ated at S2, 900. The house of
 Deylin, 3933 Grand boulevard, was dan
 aged about $l, 800. One of the irun shel ,o struck the balcony rail and lodged thcr - All the windows were blown out and q as glass scattered around the roOIrrs. togc:h'
 with pieces of the gun carriage and s't
 rounding trccs.
 Colonel wnIb ,a'. Report
 General Miles directed Captain Micht -, and Colonel wIlibon of the commiss-.l department and n former commander
 tho battery to 20 to tho sosne of the acS
 dent and secure n rupurt of tho affair. |
 tho ruturn Of Colonel Wilibon he gavc q ter following verbal account of the accide al- preparatory to writing his rcport: mt "Thc command. under the escort of q ;y- cavalry, was taking its daily march exs
 rise. Tbc caisson consisted of a linfb-
 on which was chest and the carria
 containing two chests moro Of afnmuI ial ton, making three chests on tho caisso nal Tho explosion occurred In tho chest of [ mt Timber, and the forcc uf the explosi ss. was to the rear. tearing away the caiss
 and ipniting the powder in the other t'
 chbst4 The nrs. rfil-sun carried ~ shru ,p- nois and ~ t'srtsl lssS The -hrnrncls . he loaded with tiercti ssIn containing fuin ho nases and. rnisil bai,- and Ars ffsd frS
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