St. Paul daily globe., 1894-07-17
CNECAGO SHAKEN Up.
An Explosion Results in Three
Killed and Many Injured.
TWO LADIES WE'RE HURT.
Boulevards Looked Like a
Real Battlefield.
GEN. MILES INVESTIGATES.
Five Hundred Pounds Of Pow
der Exploded.
SEVERAL HORSES KILLED.
Col. Willitson Gives a Theory
of the Cause.
Col. Willitson Gives a Theory
of the Cause.
FIRST ACCIDENT OF THE KIND.

CHIC AGO, July l6.-A calSSon or Bat
terry F, Second artillery, U. S. A, eX-
ploded with terrific force shortly after l
o'clock this afternoon at Grand and
Oakwood boulevards. Two artillery
men and one trooper were instantly
killed. Nearly a score of other persons
troops, residents in the vicinity and
passers-by-were injured. soma OF
them fatallY. The list of the killed and
wounded is as follows:
j. DONOVAN. private, Battery F.
Second artillery.
EDWARD DOYLE, private, Battery
T, Second artillery.
JOSEPH GAYLER, farrier, Troop B,
Seventh cavalry.
WOUNDED.
Sergeant Lerner. Battery F. Second
artillery, badly shot through the body,
severely burned with powder about the
face and head; recovery doubtful.
Fred Stolz, private. Secund artillery.
badly burned and wounded about the
leLS; will recover.
john Allen. private Second artillery,
silot in head and neck; fatally Injured.
Maurice O'Donnell, private Second
artillery. shot in the head aud powder
burned; may recover.
&. E. Enike, driver in rear, private
Second artillery. blown from his horse
and badly injured; will recover.
John UrQuhart, private Second artil-
lery. bali Of left foot crushed by bullet;
Hot serious.
Herbert Antes, bugler Troop B,
Seventh cavalry, shot in shoulder, leg
and arm; will recover.
Sergeant Kane. Troop B, Seventh
cavalry, ear shot off.
Sergeant g. r. Hoffman, Troop B,
Seventh cavalry, shot in chin.
Corporal Abraham L. Riley, Battery
F,Second artillery, thrown to the ground
AMI badly bruised: not serious.
Sergeant King, Battery F, Second
artillery, thrown from horse and bruised.
Unknown artillerymln, thrown from
horse, picked up unconscious, injuries
slight.
Unknown boy. thrown from bicycle,
injured about the legs.
Miss Alice York, 4l03 Grand boule-
ward, tendon of heel severed by bullet.
Mrs. E. c. HuhIing. 1890 Grand boule-
ward, severely cut and injured in her
home by falling glass.
The troops left Brighton Park for a
long march around the city to exercise
the horses. They were in command of
Capt. Dodd, of Troop f, Third cavalry.
and consisted of Troop f, Thirl cav
airy, 40 men; Troop E. Sixth cavalry,
Lieut.. Tate. 40 men; platoon of Battery
+, Second artillery, two guns, Lieut..
Gayle, % men; Troop B, Seventh cav
airy, Capt. Varnum, 40 men. The men
marched in this order. Everything
went smoothly. and there were no in
cidents until the column marched south
on Grand boulevard aud Was just cross
Ing OakVood boulevard. Then q ter
rife explosion occurred.
THE MEN ON THE CAlssoN.
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 caiSSOn fell in their
tracks, shot through and horribly man.
ged, while three others were blown
boulevard, dying Instantly. The cais-
son was blown to atoms, not piece Of
1t larger than mans hand being
found. The boulevard looked like
battlefield. There was quick series
of explosions after the first report, and
shrapnel shot rained like hail among
the trees on the boulevard and pierced
the surrounding dwellings. The con-
cuSsiOn broke every window i'll the
houses for blocks away. The walls and
roofs of the dwellings showed the ter
rife effect of the missiles. Unexploded
shells from the rear part of tine caisson
lay strewn over the ground.
With the explosion came great con-
fusion of the troops, and for moment
the men and officers seemed powerless
to move. To this was added the fright
of the occupants of the surrounding
houses. who ran screaming from their
dwellings, only to be sickened by the
Sight in the street.
A STILL ALARM OF FIRE
bad been turned in, and with the fire
department came the stockyards police
patrol wagon. The wagon was sent
UdCh u lIlG SldllOll. anu III returned WITH
twenty-five men, under the command of
Lieut. Morrissey. He then telephoned
to Hyde Park for reinforcements, and
soon Capt. Dollard arrived with
twenty-five mole men. Later In
spectors Hunt and Fitzpatrick
and Lieut.. Bonfield arrived.
1t was some little time before the two
dead artillerymen could be found. One
of them, mangled beyond recognition,
but supposed to be Doyle, had been
blown over board sign twenty i've feet
high, and was found in vacant lot
behind it. One leg and an arm were
gone. The other man, supposed to be
Donovan, had been thrown about 3OC
feet diAgonaIly to the right, and was
found in vacant lot near the Lake
Shore track. Joseph Gaylor was found
near where he was struck.
Great damage was wrought by the
explosion to neighboring property
+ Windows In most of the surroundinp n O