Show the gun exploded there was wa a lucky accident at Charle charleston stun yesterday arrangements had boon been mada for a shooting a match with soven seven nien men on 00 each side there had bad been about half balf A dozen don shots fired when william wright 0 stepped up tip to try his hi q hand with an old muzzle loading diflo after trying arting to firo tho gun but without success he lowered it to his side when the charge exploded bursting the gun all to pieces the breech was blown out the loch broken and scattered in every direction tho the acock stock broken and splint splintered ored and about an inch of the barrel broken off luckily the only injury he received WAS from a fra frament fragment 0 ment of tho u gun striking ing him on tho loft arm it made a 0 hole through his clothing and cut his arni arm but dij did not make mak 0 a serious wound this ended tho the shooting match wasatch wave |