The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-14
LoUEsvrLLE's VICTIMS BURIED.

LOUSY LIES VICTIMS BURIED.
Prominent Speakers Yesterday~-Vet-
Grams Moving SOuthward--Pensi
Demands Made by the &. A. R.
North Carolina Represented by III. e.
Getty in the Council of Admipistra-
tiOn--Encampment Adjourns.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. 13.-Tae five
victims Of Wednesdays caiss0n accident
were buried to day with military nOn0rs
While the funeral was in progress fully
ore hundred were suffering from injuries
received at the collapse Of the grand
stand during the display Of fireworks
last night. In addition to the fifty names
of the injured given last night there are
about fifty others who were taken to
their homes in carriages by friends.
So far as the veterans are concerned,
the twenty ninth annual encampment
closed tonight with as many attractions
as on any other night of the week. The
ladies, however, will continue in session
to morrow. To-day there were over
10000 people at the old Kentucky bar
becue, and tonight the campfres were
largely attended with the principal event
at Music Hall, Phoenix Hill Garden and
National Park.
Among the speakers were Generals
Gordon, Buckner, J. W. Burke, Cassius
M. Clay, Senator Burrows, Colonels M.
D. Wickersham, Samuel Mckee, Fl. 9.
Russell, John H. Leathers and Others.
The veterans remain longer than usual
this week as many are going to other
army events further south, and to the
Atlanta Exposition. Gen. Lawler and
staff leave Sunday night, to spend the
week at the national encampment of the
Sons of Veterans and the last of next
week at Chattanooga and the Chick
mauga battlefield.
The report of the committee on pen
sions says:
"We demand for our comrades the
just dues which the country gladly con-
cedes. No niggardly cutting down of
pensions under the guise of re issues; no
partial and grudging allowances that cut
here and there viii meet with the full
measure of duty that the country owes to
its surviving heroes. Nothing short of full
measure, dealt with an honest hand,
liberal host will ever meet with approba-
tion of the American people. For this
we appeal to the grateful, patriotic sen
timent Of the whole people, and we ear
nestly believe that our appeal will not be
in vain:
"Receding from no position that we
have heretofore, taken, reaffirmjng all
our previous declarations on the subject,
we specially demand a liberal and just
construction of the laws passed for the
benefit of the pensioner to the end that
his declining years may not be har-
rassed with doubts born of distrusts
or difficulties thrown around him by
rigorous or restricted construction of
the lows passed in the past to relieve his
condition"
The report was unanimously adopted,
Commander-in-O Chief |. N. Walker
read the report and was frequently in
terrupted by applause.
The following were among those
elected to the council Of administration:
Il. l.. Allen, Florida; H. E. Getty, Vir
ginia and North Carolina. The Senior
Vice Commander, Sargeon- General and
Junior Vice Commander were then in
stalled, after which the Chaplain and
Commander in Chief were in turn in
stalled. The enoampmeut then ad
journed to meet in st. Paul, next year
Commander inOhid Walker said that
he would not announce his staff untH
next week.