Reunion of Veterns; accident to one of them

BELL, SCOTT, WILKINSON

Posted By: Kelly Shaw (email)
Date: 10/23/2004 at 16:38:27

Taken from the Iowa State Register
Friday, October 16,1885

SUCCESSFUL REUNION OF VETERANS -- SAD ACCIDENT TO ONE OF THEM.

Boone, Oct. 15. -- Special to the State Register. The reunion of the Boone County Veteran Association, held here today, has been a grand success. There were several thousand people on the grounds, and speeches were made by Capt. Bell, Col. Scott and Col. Wilkinson. During the sham battle a premature explosion of the field piece shattered the right arm of James Newcombe, which required amputation. He was a former member of the Fourth Indiana Battery, but now a farmer in indigent circumstances. Some $400 was promptly raised for him on the grounds. The occurrence had a depressing effect and cut short the exercises. To-morrow a mock engagement between the Agricultural College Cadets and the Marshalltown and local companies of the I. N. G.