People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1893 — KILLED AT A PICNIC. [ARTICLE]

KILLED AT A PICNIC.

Two M«-n lx>«« Their Lives by the Kxplo•ion of a Mortar for Shooting Fireworks Bouibs at Chicago. Cm a; a go, July 17. —By the explosion of a 7-inch mortar, loaded with a heavy charge z of powder and a fireworks shell, »vo rnen were instantly killed, two fatally injured and two more slightly injured Sunday night. Richard Marshall’s head was tern off and Michael Snow was instantly killed, his body being badly tern and lacerated. The accident took place at Sixty-ninth and Wood streets at a picnic given under the auspices of the Society del , Carmine, an i Italian organization belonging to i Father Machin’s church, Sixty-ninth I and State streets. The immediate cause of the explosion is not known. Marshall was standing 100 feet from the bomb rocking his babe in a carriage. A piece of iron weighing about thirty-five pounds completely severed his head from his shoulders. The babe was not injured.