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Show SKFIL BLOWS I ! UP; 8 KILLED Children Playing Croquet in I Back Yard When Explosion Ex-plosion Occurs M'ATERTOWN. N. Y . July 13. i! Slfrht r-hilriren ranRlni; In :iu.f from 7 1 to lti years were blown t" pleCOl late Wedncscluy by the explosion of "' ii 3-Inch shell on the baek poreh or . n house In Dlmmtck stre. t, occupied - Hiy Edward O. Workman and William E. Salisbury, v Tim dead: Moms Balisbury 19', A francis Wiley, 13; Vivian .Tone. It; Si T)lln Brown, 11; Anson Workman, 13; I dna Workman. 1 : , '- - r . 1 1 Uard.-n. l.'. Y find Donald Horton, i I'ui ihUI. X V., who wiif visiting I lie Brown boy. SHELL A SOfVKNIH. 2Z The shell, which was owned by Mr "Workman, was one which QS had kept 1 "as a souvenir and wan on the ieur Ztor li to hold Ui' door from clo.Mn -jt wan believed to be "dcmi " Tin- children were playing croquet 3n the b..ck yard The shell In le-Jlcvcd le-Jlcvcd to have either been et on bj the sun, or to havfl been struek by one '. of the victims with a croquet mallet. "Vln.Jows within a radius of two . Jhlocks of the explosion were shat-aered. shat-aered. S Practically all of the clothing was j.i..v.n uff tiie.bodipH of tin- children i i laments of It lodged in treee anl "housetops In the vicinity. The bodies ere horribly mutilated but ldcntlfl- . Ration was possible In every Instance One of the first physh in it on I he , : .scene was Dr. K. W. Jones, Lifting 31 covering which bad been placed over one of the forms, lie n cotrnlited the Aody of his 12-yenr-old daughter Vivian, Viv-ian, by means of an adhesive dressing dress-ing he had placed on a cut on h l barely a half hour before, He did I 1 "know his daughter was In the group find was almost overcome with grief - The bodies of the children were. ! found apparently at pl.n n ;u v. n. ic ;ihey had been standing in their croquet cro-quet game. Near them lay fragments of the croquet mallets. Several of -She balls used In the game were blown to bits, XO WARNING. S The shell apparently let go without .jvarnlng. Two carpenters at work In v house next door to the Workman home said that a second before the .detonation the had heard the voice ol the children lauKhimr al play fl avcro the tlrst to reach the scene. " They were greeted by a scene of nt-Her nt-Her desolation Th Workman house is of concrete and the concussion bad deduced the entire rear of the house Kn powder. On the ground lay the "eight bodies and over all a grey pal-3or pal-3or of concrete dust was hefrlnmnk' to settle Fragments of'elothlng wore sus- .fended from trees and housetop. Two automobile tires which had been on Mhe back porch were blown to the rool Opt a building two hundred t' "1 iwaj JBlocks of concrete were blown agalnct -neighboring house and Into 1 h Streets and surrounding wards. SHELL AS ' MUD.1 The shell was what Is commonly -known as a "dud." The projectile had j Jjeen fired from one of the throe -Inch "howitzer guns during target practice 3feC the 104th Field Artillery at Pino -Plains reservation. Inst summer It had not exploded by fust or and lay in the sand, fully chnrrid. owhen Mr. Workman found It and brought It home as a souvenir He kept It In his home during th winter and this summ r m.m ii 'Awelght to adjust th- ncre.-n door on I his roar porch. Captain O. H. Schumacher, con-I con-I "''struction quartermaster, temporarily! with the First Flleld Artillery at Json Barracks, was asked by police to inspect the remnants of th'' -h'll tXaptaln Schumacher believes the excessive ex-cessive heat beating down on the pro. Jertile caused the T. N T, Charge to expand, and made the she'! Iabl tp exploslon at a much less concussion than normally. Presence of the concrete wall of th" cuse behind the shell CiMtain Schu-niacher Schu-niacher said, threw th- force of the i 'explosion forward and directly against the elpht children, almost as If the TJiad been standing directly In the pji!' jf the gun Police are honeycombing 1 c'ty or souvenir shells and al ready have found six all of which garare picked up last summer on the sands at Pine Plain? They were dropped In the Black river on advice of Captain Sobumachei |