Terrible accident

GARIEN, TYSON

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 3/20/2011 at 16:39:29

Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, July 7, 1870

A terrible accident occurred in Tete des Morts township, Jackson county, a short time since, resulting in the death of two young men named Nicholas Garien and Nicholas Tyson. They were engaged in firing a cannon during a religious celebration, when fire from a cigar of one of the young men communicated to a paper containing several pounds of powder, blowing them both into the air, and mangling them terribly. Several others standing around were severely burned.