The Daily Cincinnati Republican, And Commercial Register

SHOCKING ACCIDENT

Mr. Cleomine C. C. Cohen, operative Chymist, who had a laboratory at No. 34, Hampton street, came to his death on Saturday in the following shocking manner. It appears he was engaged in manufacturing fulminating mercury, for which there is at present considerable demand, it being used in all the percussion caps now adapted to fowling pieces, rifles and pistols. On the day previous he had said, that by some peculiar process of his own, he could manufacture a larger quantity than common, and it is believed that in thus hastening the process, the accident occurred. At about one o'clock he left his laboratory to go to his house to dinner, but in a few minutes returned, and was in the act of pouring the mercury from one vessel into another over a charcoal fire, when it is supposed that a spark from the fire struck the mineral in the vessel he held in his hand and caused it to explode. He was mangled horribly, his eyes were driven back into his head, one of his arms was blown off into the street, the other only hung to his body by a few ligaments. It was entirely taken off by Dr. Rogers before his death, which followed in a few hours. Mr. Cohen was intimately acquainted with the science of chemistry in all its branches, having studied it at the Royal College in London, under the celebrated Farraday and Brande. He has a wife and three children in destitute circumstances, to enable whom to return to their native country, England, the druggists in Broadway, yesterday opened a subscription list, which in the course of the day will be submitted to druggists in other parts of city. In the mean time, contributions, for the above purpose will be received by Dr. Fauchtwanger, No 377, Broadway.