Powers - J.W.
Source: Indiana in the Mexican War
Compiled by Oran Perry, Adjutant General
Indianapolis, August 1, 1908
New Albany (Indiana) Bulletin.
FATAL ACCIDENT Brookville American, July 10, 1846 Yesterday evening while Lieutenant J. W. Powers of the Montgomery Volunteers was on his way to the camp out of the city, accompanied by two or three friends, the horses in the back in which he was riding took fright and ran off, precipitation the hack into a ravine near the river, a distance of nearly thirty feet, with such violence as to severely bruise his head and neck, causing almost immediate death. He survived but about forty minutes afterward. We learn that he was a young man of good habits, of amiable and social qualities, about twenty years of age and of wealthy and respectable parentage. His father is a merchant of Crawfordsville, Indiana. The funeral obsequies are to take place today and, as we learn, with the honors of war. We are creitably informed that no fault can be attached to the driver as he is a man of prudence and caution and the horses were usually gently and manageable.