DEATH NOTICE: Patrick McCormick; West Troy, Albany co., NY 
surname: McCormick

submitted by Maureen Graves Anderson (maureen @ alumni.bates.edu) 
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Albany Argus, Sept 10 1866

EXPLOSION OF A SHELL - Between 11 1/2 and 12 o'clock Saturday forenoon a
terrible accident occurred at the ammunition factory of Mr. Edward Lawrence,
on Temperance Hill, West Troy.  A man named Patrick McCormick, aged about 25
years, while engaged in astracting the fuse from a shell in a shed attached to
the factory, the shell burst, killing McCormick instantly.  Both of his arms
were blown off, his body terribly mutilated, and one of his eyes completely
blown out.  After the explosion his body presented a horrible sight.  One side
of the shed was torn down.  A few minutes before the accident Mr. Lawrence had
cautioned McCormick to have nothing to do with the shells but his warning was
not heeded.

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