Show BLOWN TO FRAGMENTS A Soldier and a LietfYenant Lose S I Their Lives J i 5 J < SNDY HOOK NJ October 21The ordnance board fired a twelveinch mortar this forenoon The charge was fifty pounds of powder and shells loaded with sand This afternoon the shells were to be loaded with powder One shell was filled by a soldier named Jos King First Lieutenant Wm M Metcalf suparin tended the work After filling the npxkshell and screwing in the plug it exploded blowing the soldier to pieces fatally injuring Metcalf who lived but about half an hour His body was fearfully mangled while that of King vas picked up iq pieces in the vicinity The clothes or both caught fire Several others were slightly injured in-jured and temporarily lost their i hearing As tensor twelj persons were near the shell when it exploded it is wondered that no more were killed as fragments of the shell flew in every direction It is surmised that some grains of powder lodged in the thread of the hole ia the shell and the plug teing screwed in brought about the explosion This is the first fatal accident which has happened during the last twelve years and a half the length oLlime that the ordinance boar has been testing < guns here Many guns have burst but no one was ever injured in-jured by such explosion before |