New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 13, 1922, Page 14

b2 e r——— NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1922, The y Coal & Wood Co. 141-149 ELM STREET ARE YOU GOING TO BUILD? . USE DRAGON PORTLAND CEMENT Best in the World—Used by.U. S. Government Since 1889— Every Bag Guaranteed Manufactured on Honor by The Lawrence Cement Company Lime, Roofing Papét_', Asphalt Shingles, Sewer Pipe Everything in Building Supplies Genuine Lehigh Stove Coal Our Supply is Getting Limited “A Bird in Hand is Worth Two in the Bush” ' The City Coal & Wood Co. FRANK H. JOHNSTON, Pres. and Treas. PHONE 217-218-1217 SOUVENIR OF WAR ILLS 8 CHILDREN Supposedly “Dead” Shell Ex- plodes in House Watertown, N. Y, July 13.—Eight children, ranging in age from 16 to 11 years. were blown to pieces late dyesterday by the explosion of a T5- millimetre shell on the back porch of a house in Dimmick street, occupied by Edward G. Workman and Willlam L. Salisbury The dead are: Morris Salisbury, 16; Frances Wiley, 13: Vivian Jones, : Olin Brown, 11; Anson Workman, 13, Edna Workman, 14; Sarah Barden,13; and Donald Horton, 12, of Pulaski, Y., who was visiting the Brown boy The shell, which was owned by Mr Workman, was one which he kept as a souvenir and used on the rear porch to hold the door from closing.” It was believed to be “dead.” & The children were playing croquet in the back yard The shell is be- lieved to have either been set off by the hot sun or to have been struck by one of the victims with a croquet mallet. Windows within a radius of two blocks of the explosion were shattered Practically all of the clothing was blown off of the bodies of the chil- dren. Fragments of it lodged in trees and housetops in the vicinity. The bodies were horribly mutilated, but {dentification was possible every instance. Finds Own Child. One of the first physicians on the gcene was Dr. F. W. Jones. Lifting a covering which had been placed over one of the forms, he recognized the body of his 12-year-old daughter Vivian, by means of an adhesive dressing he had placed on a cut on her leg barely a half hour before. Ha did not know his daughter was in the group, and was almost over- come with grief. The bodies of children found apparently places E——ee— LET US SERVE YOU ELECTRICALLY —THE— COWLES ELECTRIC CO. 392 STANLEY ST. TEL. 2220-4 New Britain Royal Cleaners. in were near the at CROWLEY BROS. IN PAINTERS AND DECORATORS 267 Chapman Street TEL. 755-12 Estimates cheerfully given on all jobs T ——— { FOX'S Friday and Saturday uth Roland—Timber Queen Tom Mix—Big Stakes Evelyn Nesbit-Hidden Woman| | where they had been standing in | their croquet game Near them lay fragments of the croquet mallets. Sev- eral of the balls used in the game| | were blown to bits and the wickets | were torn from the ground. | No Warning. | The shell apparently let g6 with-| out warning. Two carpentérs at work on a house next door to the Work- man house, said that a second before the detonation they had heard the voices of the children at play. The | two men were the first to reach the | scene. They were greeted by a scene of utter desolation. The Workman house is of concrete and the concussion had | reduced the entire rear of the house to powder. On the ground lay the! eight bodies and over all a gray pall of concrete dust was beginning to set- tle | | Fragments of clothing were sus-/ pended from trees and house tops.| ‘Two automobile tires which had been on the back porch were blown to the ! | root of a building 200 feet away | Blocks of concrete were blown | against neighboring houses and into the streets and surrounding yards. | Physicians found a sign of life in only one o e bodies, Morris Salis- bury, but the boy died while being! taken into an ambulance Others | were in many cases, literally blown to pieces and died instantly and without sufferir The shell what is commonly| | known as a "“du The projectile | had been fired from one of the six| inch howitzers dwring target prac-| tice of the 104th Field Artillery at Pine Plains Reservation last summer Tt had not exploded by fuse or con- tact and lay in the sand, fully charg- ed, when Mr. Workman found it apd rought it home as a souvenir. Heat Is Blamed Captain G. H. Schumacher, con- struction quartermaster, temporarily | with the First Field Artillery at| Madison Barracks, was asked by po- lice to inspect the remnants of the shell tonight. Captain Schumacher | believes the excessive heat heating| |down on the projectile caused the | T. N. T. charge to expand, and made| the shell liable to ode at a much less concussion than normally | The concrete wall of the houze be- hind the shell, Captain Schumacher | said, threw the force of the explo- | sion forward and directly against the eight children, almost as if they had | been standing directly in the path| | of the gun | | ——— | WANTED: ONE KING | — | Principal Provision s That he Must! | be a Wealthy Man, | Tirana, Albania, Jily 13.—(By As | soclated Press)—Since Jerome Napo- leon Bonaparte, American great-neph- ew of Napoleon 1, declined the Al-| | banian throne, last December, the Al-| | banian government has been casting | about for a suitable ruler | Offers have been made to Prince | Cyrille of Bulgaria and to the Duke | of Abruzzi, cousin of King Victor Em- manuel of Ttaly, but they are reported | | to have shown no dieposition to ac- i(!p' ’ |, A small majority of the Albanians { favor the return of Prince William of | Wied, who held the throne for a brief period in 1914, but most the inhabit- ants of the country would like to see the crown given to a wealthy Ameri. can or a titled Briton. 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