Show fATAL WOUNDS nUt DUE TO A t A Li Lighted Cigarette Is Into Powder 4 C CANNON 1 ON EXPLODES PREMATURELY 4 t T en n Soldiers and Civilians Hurt Two Will Vill Die Springfield Ills July per persons perSons sons were Injured two fatally by the premature discharge of the evening gun at the national guard encampment Camp LIncoln this evenIng The ex exploSion was caused by some one throw lug a lighted cigarette into powder which had fallen to the round ground The accident occurred in the presence of a large crowd of visitors to the camp camI The Injured Private Jesse Ru pert battery batter A Ahead Ahead head chest arms and leg terribly burn broken and hand pa partially shot aw away v will die Corporal Charles Balsley Baisley battery A face breaSt and arms badly burned burne I left arm broken and chest torn and en entire entire tire body mass of bruises will die Private Edward Smoot battery A face badly burned Private Charles Sharp signal corps face facO and hands filled with I powder in injuries injuries juries serious Harry Harro civilian face hands and body badly burned may lose eye Chester Hunt face painfully burned Private Albert Stevens battery batters A face and hands burned Private Gritton battery A hands and face scorched Sergeant Schroeder battery A face burned Harry Peters civilian face bUrned Several others names not learned slightly injured Powder Pails Falls to Ground Corporal Corpora Balsley and Jesse Ruppert acting quartermaster were loading the evenIng gun assIsted by several men of battery A A sack of powder was wat i placed in the mouth of the cannon and Ruppert was about to drive the charge home The powder Dowder sack was too long I for the gun and in forcing it into the cannon the canvass was torn some of the powder to the ground just I belo below the nozzle Private Ruppert stood facing the gun ramrod in hand Balsley Baisley also faced the gun while a number of soldiers and civilians were gathered aroun around d deSPite the commands of officers in comman command to keen bR 0 b Explosion Deliberately Ca Caused ed Suddenly some on uttered the s Watch Vatch th m s atter There wasa was a flash of powder on the ground the flames were ere to the powder was vas to be fired in inthe the cannon and the gun un was dis dischar discharged char charged ed The ramrod was broken and shot from the cannon and Balsley and Rup Ruppert Ruppert pert had their clothes blown from their bodies which were blackened with powder The others staggered back burned and blinded The wounded were taken to the hos hospitals Some say sa it was a man in uniform who threw the cigarette but an eye eyewitness eyewitness witness declares it was a small boy |