Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-11-24
Explosion at the Powder Mill.
Erorx, Tho plafvfila Witness

On Monday night last, at quarter past
ten, q laundering report was heard and the
intelligence at once spread that an explo-
sion had taken place at the powder mills.
These mills are situated about mile west
OF our village and are owned by the Latin
d Rend Powder Company. We went out
on Tuesday morning and gathered these
facts: The building in which the explosion
took place is called the cylinder mill and
is used to mix the ingredients before
pressing them. It is usually started in the
evening and left running all night withou.
any attendant Materials for about 200
kegs of powder were in the cylinders at
the time Of the explosion. OF the size and
shape of the building we were unable to
gather any information from anything that
was left in the place where it had previous
ly stood. With the exception of the lower
half of the water wheel and portion of
the fume. not q vestige of the building or
machinery was left The charred frsg-
ments were thrown in every direction.
In the cylinders, with the ingredients
were two or three hundred pounds of cop
per balls about three fourths of an inch in
diameter, and many of these were found q
quarter of q mile away. This mill was
somewhat isolated and but little damage
was done to any of the surrounding build
ings- Some Of the weather boarding was
knocked OF building about q hundred
yards away, and q number of panes from
the windows of the different shops sur
rounding, but the destruction in this direc-
tion was not half as great as we expected to
find. In one of the workshops o clock
was hanging against the side of the build
ing secured by an iron strip. The explo-
sion caused it to tilt forward and stopped
it Just at the time the explosion took piacs
quarter past ten. Some of the glass was
broken in the windows of Mr.. Jacob Kra-
mer's house on the hill east of the mill.
1t is not knoxn what caused the explosion,
but it is supposed that there was some de-
feet in the machinery, and that the fire
was generated by friction. The loss is be-
tween "a. 600 and $1,000. The works have
been running the dast three months with
out any foreman
The CARES OF PAxrs.-The grand restau,
rants at Paris no longer display those at
trsctive bills of fare for which they are
celebrated the world over. As far a.
France is concerned, the supplies are total
ly cut of, and StrasbourR can not seno
her savory pdtes de foie gras, Perigord car
not transmit truf1es. Fentainebleau frogs,
nor Burgundy snails. The delicacies q
foreign countries are also embargoed, and
Russia has stopped sending ifs wood
cocks, hazel-hens and partridges; Italy il.
kids, larks snd pheasants; Englant
| its grouse and maokerel; Norway its salmon
and snipes; Germany its hares and hams
Spain its quails and olives: Belgium its oys
ters and pigeons; and Holland its turbot,
and herrinRs. In times before the war th,
great absorbing question IN Paris was, s'ol
what ehall we diner" but nov the question
il, "Shall one dine ct all?" And GORE
sPondsnt says that e -. ss the seriy bird obtain
restaurant alone who can secure the beef
steak with mushrooms.
Ma GA.Dsrs Bazw1a, Of Boston, haa