Accident At Maquoketa

LEE

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 11/28/2010 at 18:22:04

Dubuque Herald, April 14, 1865

ACCIDENT IN MAQUOKETA

While firing a salute at Maquoketa last Monday on the reception of the news of Lee’s surrender, a cannon made in this city, burst, killing one man and breaking the leg of another. The mail carrier brought the news. The names of the men were not ascertained.