The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-28
POURED INTOA CANNON.
TWENTY-FIVE MEN AND BOYS
SERIOUSLY INJURED.
SOME MAY DIE AND SOME BE BLIND.
Clothing of the Victims Tcru Into Shreds by
the Explosion and set On Tire--Graph-
ic Details Of The Castrophe--
Victims Interviewed.
Baskerville Citizen.)

(Asheyilie CitIzen)
fr;obtfrl occ;5ent Yesterday turned
s1,,;stines info d dav Of suffering and
.ny;etv in many homes and shocked this
entirn community.
Twen+v-two persons were injured.
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81 a FRIGHTFUL MOMENT.
ga scene of wild confusion followed.
efter a moments hull from the stunning
effect of the explosion. The field and
woods hundred or more feet away
from where the cannon still lay were
ablaze, and strewn about the field were
Nore than score of human bodies,
some moving and some lying silent.
!, Finch, the man who held the powder
beg. lay insensible nearly a hundred
feet away near a fence where he had
fallen after his hight through the air.
Fragments of clothing were everywhere
Ground or staggered about. with blinded
tyes. coal black frees and blooded bodies
almost nude.
Some ran ahont. frantically. scream
As with main. the fragments of cloth
ing that hung in shre1s about them still
hurning. One boy twelve years old, was
milling down the hill howard the river.
his clothing on FIRE.
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cared injury That No narann wos
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The men firing the cannon were in
plain view OF the residents on the Asne-
ytlfa ciHn of the riypr and when the