Evening star., 1914-07-19

work at the arsenal and Of precautions
that were taken to guard the lives OF
people employed in dangerous occupa-
Henry seufferle, employed in the
wrecked building. gave testimony; ana
added the name Of another injured GIRL
Sarah Gunnell, to the list
Andrew Cox. another workman there.
saw three pans with 800 or 800 stars
Edward NJ Stebbins. paymaster and
military storekeeper at the post. testi-
fed that he helped about forty girls from
some of them was on FIRE. but he threw
a 'paulin about them, smothering the
flames. He saw the stars" flying about;
some were flying about the room where
the cartridges were being made ana
some flew as far as the river. he said
which was about forty feet away. Inere
was no loose powder in the room unless
one of the cartridges had been broken.
The jury rendered a verdict that I'm
their opinion . the superintendent was
guilty Of the most culpable carelessness
and negligence In placing highly combus-
tible substances 80 near a building filled
with human beings. indicating most
reckless disregard for life which should
be severely rebuked by the government
injured women were added to the list of
casualties These were Kate Palmer.
who lived on 18th street between and
D streets. on the Island, hurt by piece
Mrs. Kidwell. who lived on NJ street be-
tween AZ and 9th streets. who was badly
burned
The funerals Of the victims were held
Sunday. June 49, There was one great
and impressive funeral from the arsenal
A great crowd stood around the arsenal
gate a platform covered by American
flags had been built in the grounds 1t
ID mentioned in the old chronicles that
the cofflns were made in the arsenal car
penter shop On one part Of the funeral
platform lay the remains of the identified
victims. These were Annie Bache. Julia
McEwen. Mrs. Collins. Elizabeth Brana-
gan. Lizzie Brahler. Eliza Lacey and
Maggie Yonson. on another part Of the
platform were rows Of coff1ns marked
"Unknown."
IN the platform and taking part in the
sad rites were Gen Ramsey. at one time
conmandant OF the arsenal: Maj. Ben
ham, the conmandant: Mai. Stebbins. the
paynlaster: Surgeon Porter and I.ieuts.
Prince. Mckee and stockton. The guard
war furnished by the Veteran Reserves
Rev Father A Rokel of st. DomincS 3
Church spoke and prayed as did the Rev
s. " Ileech Of tiorsuch NJ. r. chapel
John g. Dudley was chief marshal of the
long and cnlemn cortege and there was
a squad Of police. under sergt. hepnurn'
There were not aearses enough I'm Wash
ington and a number of army a1nhu-
lances were utilized.
The list Of pallbearers will recall to
old Washington people many names no
doubt familiar to them long ago. The
pallbearers on the part Of the workm"n
at the arsenal were: f. Crompton, Il.
n. Clapp. J. H. Granger. L. Dishard, l..
Anderson, IT, Mansfield, G. Dalton. w.
Jones. ". Whitmore, John Condy, w.
America, A. J. Caywood. J. l.. Hunting
ton, G. Hergus. Leach, - Hall. T.
F. Mockabee, A. Curnon, f. McElroy, l..
Martin, J. Inderma,ier. VI. Beagle, w.
Powell, T.. MuIlat, G. s. Draper. II. II.
Lemon, II. Nrarders, r. King. b Young,
G. Smithson. J. N1eddler. c. Sorrell. J.
Dickinson. w. Weeden. Thomas McCook,
John Weldon. T. Dickson, NJ. Rhyon. J.
Rhyon. II. W. Young, J. Glover. Q. spi-
GER o. Bailey. NJ. Spicer. J. Miller. T.
Rowland, r. johnson. II. Lcesnitzer, w.
II. Tofing, W. J. Carmichael. c. Cal
laghan, r. Gracey, J. Redmond. w. No
- han, w. Handsberry. F. Shay. II. Edgar,
w. Boyd. A. Anderson ]. Miller. ]. Ri
ley, J. Beacham. J. Richmond, G. Neff,
Joseph Gunnell, c. Shook. F. Daffer, Will
liam Moore. William Meeks. A. Cook. G.
Schaeffer. L. Hoover, Joseph Green, r.
Jacobs, w. Kidwell. J. Fry. A. Ferguson,
H. Vonhorn. Joseph Coderick, o. Dunn
and Thomas Dunn.
The pallbearers on the part of the Sons
of Temperance were: c. r. Smith, J. S.
Hollidge, J. T Ballard, H. Harvey, II. P.
Pillsbury. c. C. Bushnell, D. L. Haggard,
B. F. Scott. G. 8. Dull, C. S. Maxwell,
J. II. McMurray, ]. H. Wooley and Rob-
ert HAZEL.
The funeral procession was led by the