That On Which Jasper and Jittus Were Killed Torn From Its Bed.

 

The big ledge of rock at the Schwind quarry, on the Falls road, on which the two colored quarrymen, Braxton Jasper and Edward Jittus, were killed Wednesday while removing a charge which had failed to explode was blasted loose yesterday morning and rolled to the bottom of the quarry. Foreman George W. Heavel made the blast. He put three pints of powder in the bottom of the shaft. This cracked the stone, Then six more pints of powder were poured into the hole and tamped down. When the electric current was applied the stone shot out from its position and covered its blood stains in the chips in the quarry bottom.

 

Coroner Requardt's jury of inquest which met last night at the Northern Police Station to investigate the deaths of Jasper and Jettus rendered a verdict of accidental death resulting from their own carelessness.

 

Yesterday at 2 P.M., the two bodies were buried in Sharp Street Cemetery. Rev. Jones Watkins, of Enon Baptist (colored) Church, officiated.