Kauai County HI Archives Obituaries.....Long, Charlie January 1, 1913
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The Garden Island, Lihue, Kauai, Tues., 1-7-1913
LONG, CHARLIE
BLOWN TO PIECES BY GIANT POWDER.  While under the influence of liquor, Charlie 
Long, a resident of Wainiha and an employee of the Wainiha Power Co., was 
literally blown to pieces early New Year's morning while attempting to celebrate 
the birth of the New Year with a box of giant powder which he had secured from the 
power house storeroom. He had been requested to remain away from the powder house 
when it was learned of his intentions. It seems that one stick had been 
discharged, but evidently the unfortunate celebrator thought this too tame and 
accordingly brought forth an entire keg of the explosive and with the aid of 
firecrackers, set a greater part of it off with the result that some of his limbs 
and head were almost severed from the body. Lacerated as he was, however, he lived 
for a short while after the accident. 


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