The Daily Cincinnati Republican, And Commercial Register

AWFUL catastrophe,

On Saturday night last, a number of individuals who participated in the triumph at the result of the Borough Election, determined to speak their joy in the voice of artillery. In loading for the last shot, (which was very incautiously attempted without securing the vent,) the charge exploded, and the groans of death were substituted for shouts of triumph. It was now the hour of midnight—and when the writer repaired to the scene of death, about ten minutes after the catastrophe, he found the ground strewed with the bodies of four men! Mr. John Wright was horribly mangled, gave one convulsive struggle and was dead—A man named Hood was awfully disfigured, and so wounded in the right arm as to render immediate amputation near the shoulder necessary. The other two were only stunned, and after a few minutes regained their feet. not being materially injured.—The tumultuous crowd who had a few minutes before the summit, and vexed the welkin with their shouts, had disappeared, and the scene was dismal and solitary.

Circleville Herald