The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-09-14
BLOWN TO PIECES.
Members of Kentucky National Guard
the Victims.

LOUISVILLE, Sept. ia horrible
and the wounding of several members
| CURED shortly after $50 this morning
by the explosion of caisson. The
dead are: Corporal A. L. Robinson,
Private Mcbride Hutchins, Howard
Irwin. Charles Wood and Driver Will.
liam Adams, (colored).
The wounded are Fred Cohn and
William Hobbs. The whole left side
| of Cohn's face was blown off. Even il
he should recover he will be blind
and horribly disfgured. Hobbs was
badly burned about the face and
| bruised.
The accident occurred on Broadway,
between Third and Fourth streets,
where the first Kentucky artillery
were stationed for the purpose of firing
morning salute. Eyewitnesses say
the explosion was caused by dropping
the caisson on the friction primer OF
the piece. Two bodies were blown
| over the house tops and horribly
mangled. The wounded were removed
to the hospitals. The two horses at
tached to the cannon were so horribly
mangled they were killed.
Fortunately few people were on the
streets, owing to the early hour, or
the list of killed and injured would
undoubtedly have been greatly in
creased. Every window in the block
was blown out. Nearly everyone in
the neighborhood was asleep and the
noise almost caused a panic.
The body of the colored driver,
mangled almost beyond recognition,
fell on the front porch of a residence
fully 300 feet from the place where
the explosion occurred. Bits of flesh
and pieces OF bloody uniforms were
scattered all along the street, cling
ing to the treetops and in shattered
windows. A leg and half a coat were
found one block south of where the
explosion occurred. They had been
blown clear over the three-story and
basement houses. Several mangled
legs and arms were found on the tops
of houses.
1t is believed the body of Private
Hutchins was blown to pieces, as it has
not yet been found. The body of
Howard Irwin was so badly mangled
that it was impossible to gather it up
without q shovel. 1t was found a
block away.
The battery was on the way to
Phoenix hill for the purpose of firing
a salute. There were 66 pounds of
powder in the caisson.
Richard Cogan, who was about two
blocks from the caisson when it blew
up, said the buildings, even at that
distance, were shaken and the windows
shattered. In few minutes everyone
in the neighborhood was out. Many
women said Cogan tainted.
The accident has cast gloom over
the city, where everybody had been
prepared for a grand and joyous event.
The regiment to which the young men
belonged is made up of the flower of
Louisville. Many of them are society
leaders and of wealthy families.
Captain David Castleman was riding
at the side of the detail. He escaped
injury.
The report that one of the men was
smoking is denied by Captain John B.
Castleman, of the First infantry, to
which the battery belonged. 1t was
one of those unfortunate accidents
that cannot be guarded against.
Governor John Young Brown who
was stopping with Major George B.
Easton, was asleep. The explosion
stunned him. 1t was some time before
he could realize what had happened.
All the -fmnIure in his house was
damaged by the explosion.