Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1879 — Fatal Accident. [ARTICLE]

Fatal Accident.

Two weeks ago to-day Charles J. Hopkins, a young farmer living four' miles north of town, was loading a metalele cartridge of a breech-loading shot gun to kill hawks that preyed on hia chickens. In capping the last cartridge the charge was exploded, its contents striking a window sill in flrant of him, but the shell was driven out of his hand and struck bis nose with tuch force as to imbed it so deeplyan the flesh, cartilage and bone that his mother’s help was required to pull it out. The wound bled profusely and was exceedingly painful. Dr. Washburn was called to attend thecas* and it was thought his recovery was certain. But on Friday last Mr. Hopkins died. His funeral was largely attended on .Saturday. He was leader of the Reusselaer Cornet band, and that organization attended the funeral in a body. Mr. Hopkins bad boon married a year to a day when the fatal accident occurred, and leaves a widow and infant daughter, lie was about twenty-flLvja years old.