Antonio (Tony) Senad |
| Posted 2018-07-28 by Judy Wight Branson |
| Weekly Journal Miner, Prescott, Arizona Territory Wednesday, August 16, 1905, pager 2, columns 2 & 3 Blown To Pieces By An Explosion Frightful Death of A Laborer Near Town While Blasting Stumps (From Saturday's Daily) One of those horrible accidents that can never be accounted for, ending in the death of a human being, took place yesterday afternoon about one mile northeast of the brick plant. A man known as Antonio, and whose full name has not been learned, who was employed to get out wood for W. H. Grizzell, met an awful death while blowing out stumps with powder. How the accident happened will probably never be known, as the man was at work alone. When the noon hour came and he did not show up at the shack where he was boarding his midday meal was kept waiting for him until nearly half past 1 o'clock. When he showed no signs of coming to the shack for his luncheon, the first impression was that he was ill, and Grizzell, upon hearing of his strange absence, became alarmed and started to look after the man. After searching all about the district in which the man was at work without finding any trace of him, Grizzell came back to a point where he had been ordered to blow up some stumps. Careful search finally led to where he had put off the last blast of giant powder, and not further than 25 feet from this spot lay the dead man, horribly disfigured and mutilated. From the manner in which the remains were found it seems likely that he was stooping over the powder charge when he met with the premature discharge that caused his death. The body had apparently been thrown some twenty-five feet from where the explosion took place, and was an unrecognizable mass of flesh, burned black and crushed in a manner to make it of scarcely human appearance. Grizzell, who first found the remains, seeing that the man was dead, hurried to town, and reported the manner to the sheriff's office. Justice Talbot, in the capacity of coroner, accompanied the sheriff to the scene, and as soon as was possible the body was removed to the Maus undertaking parlors. Transcriber's note: Mr. Senad is buried in an unmarked grave at the Citizens Cemetery in Prescott, Arizona. Also, there are different spellings of his surname, so the listed name may not be correct. |
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