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St. Joseph Traveler
July 6, 1859

         The cannon which bursted on the Fourth in this
       village, causing the death of Capt. JACK NAPIER,
       which we notice elsewhere, weighed nearly seven
       hundred pounds. It was literally blown to pieces.
       One piece, weighing about forty pounds, passed
       through the warehouse of M. Teetzel, Esq., and
       fell upon the deck of the schooner E. G. Grey,
       moored upon the other side; another piece of
       about the same weight fell on Water street,
       opposite B. M. Springsteen's Drug Store, and
       within eight feet of where J. E. Stevens, Esq.,
       happened at the time to be standing - a distance
       of at least twenty-five rods from the place where
       the piece bursted; a third piece entered Mr.
       Bloom's barn under the bluff, tearing a large
       hole we learn in the gable end; a fourth piece
       fliew a distance of about thirty-five rods and
       crashed through the roof of Mrs. Bartlett's
       dwelling, and struck on the floor within a few
       feet of one of her sons; a fifth piece was
       found on the lot belonging to F. A. Potter,
       Esq., near the residence of Capt. Hicks, which
       in its course just cleared Mr. Bloom's house;
       a sixth piece, the breech of the gun, weighing
       about 60 pounds, went crashing through the
       fence surrounding Mr. Hoyt's residence. Several
       other pieces have been found in different parts
       of the town, and it is a great wonder that some
       one was not injured besides the unfortunate man
       whose death we have recorded.
       
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