The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-07-26
BLOWN TO PIECES.
A CINCINNATI MANS MYSTERI-
GUS ENDING.
He Was Loaded, But With What
NoOne Knows---Was it Dyna-
mite ?---If so, What Was He
Doing With it in His Pocket?
His Watch Buried in a Pole.
Cincinnati Tribune. |

---HlS Watch Buried IN Pole.
[Cincinnati Tribune
Several people who happened to be
standing at the corner Of Sixth and
Main streets about o:45 o'clock last
night were deafened suddenly by
tremendous outburst of sound. 1t took
them a moment to realize that some
explosion of a serious nature had oc
Cured near at hand. Before the impact
of the shock had weakened sufficiently
for them to catch an undertone of
shattering glass, the street was wrapped
in a thick cloud of smoke. For
another instant there was dead silence.
Then, as by general intuition, every
body became aware that the mangled
body of a man was lying in its own
blood in front of the store Of H.
Borcherdng, on the east side of Main
street.
He was literally blown to pieces
Two men who ran across the street to
pick him up, started back in horror.
One hand lay twenty feet distant from
the body the other was in the street.
The base of the trunk was torn into
shreds, as if the bomb, or whatever it
was that killed him, had gone off in
his hip locket. Patches of bleeding
flesh were scattered along the front of
two houses on the east side of the
street. Even the west side also had
been reached by the flying fragments.
The glass show cases of H. H. Wellman,
at the corner of Sixth street, were
completely shattered, as were several
windows in the store of Golfer & Co. :,
opposite.
The scene was exceedingly repulsive.
A crowd gathered Immediately, and
when the officers arrived it was with
great difficulty that they could keep
back the press. Many people-strange
as it may seem, most of them women
seemed determined to get near
enough to touch the mangled body.
There was continual pickering
between officers and the mob, while
other policemen were searching every
inch of the street, not only for any
thing that might identify the dead
man, but for pieces of his body.
VETERINARY Surgeon Harry d. Hay
wood, of Avondale; Henry Goodman,
of the Bandle Arms Company, and
two young ladies were conversing in
front of the Bandle store, at 256 Main
street, when they casually glanced at
a man with cane who had just passed
them.
The man had got nearly to Sixth
and Main streets when the explosion
occurred. Henry Goodman was sitting
on the box in front of the store, but
after the explosion had subsidized he was
laying on the pavement.
The force of the explosion, which
happened only about forty feet from
where he was, had knocked him off
the box. Just about three seconds
before the explosion took place he had
turned his gaze away from the man
and was addressing the ladies at the
door.
DR.. Haywood was standing on the
grating in front of the store, and the
shock from the explosion threw him
against the corner of the show
window. DR.. Haywood says that
simultaneously he looked toward where
he thought the noise proceeded and
saw something which looked like rags
flying in the air, and the next moment
he heard the dull thud of something
that had dropped. When he saw the
articles flying into the air he thought
that some one had thrown a large
fire cracker into an awning that
! happened to be on the corner and
imagined that the awning had been
torn to pieces. He lost no time in
cogitating but fastened to see what
had dropped.
He found man gasping his last
Hastily turned him over, for he had
fallen on his face, Dr. Haywood asked
him if he could speak. The only
answer was two or three Convulsive
movements of the lower jaw and he
died. DR.. Haywood felt the man:
pulse, but found that the heart had
stopped.
The entire proceedings occupied
perhaps less than one minute. Henry
Goodman, learned what had occurred
at once sent in call for patro
wagon, and in about five minutes No
responded. The noise and force o
the explosion were such that before
the patrol wagon could arrive crowc
Of two hundred people had gathered
at the scene.
Many were the theories put forth
as is usual where mysters exists, bu
all were mere idle guesses that threw
no light on the matter at all. How
every it occurred, and in wha,eve
manner, sufficient to say that TIL
abdomen and intestines were driver
backwards through the body. Part
Of the body were found cllnging tC
the awning across the way. The lef
hand was found in the front door 0
Wellman's cutlery store. Pieces 0
the body were scattered about tn
street in all directions for many feet
About two minutes before the ex
plosion Officers Howard and O'Hearl
had just left the corner of Sixth anc
Main and were going toward Sycamor'
on Sixth. They hurried toward where
they thought it had come from ant
. the horrible sight met their gaze.
1t proved a difficult task for tn
officers to keep the crowd away. I'm
BODY was at once taken to the morgue
where it was identified by Fir
Marshal Bunker as being that Of Iacl