Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1910 — 4 DIE IN GUN BLAST [ARTICLE]

4 DIE IN GUN BLAST

Accident Occurs at Indian Head Proving Grounds. Four men were killed by an explosion of a five-inch gun at the Indian Head proving grounds of the navy. The breech-block of the gun, which was being tested, blew backward into 'the crew firing the gun. „ - „ The dead arte Lieuttenant Arthur K. Cafee. who was in charge of the gun; J. L.- Brown, battery foreman; Nelson Jackson, a negro battery attendant, and J. J. Leary, ordnance man. Sidney Dyson, negro member of the gun crew, w’as seriously injured. The gun; which was a new one from the navy yard gun factory, and was being tested for the first time, had been fired twice. The accident occurred just as the breech was being closed for the third round. - V