New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-09
Explosion of Five POwder.HOuses.


We have already received by telegraph a
brief report of the powder-house explosion
in Ohio. Further particulars are given in
the following dispatches:
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, February 5.-Five
| powder-houses belonging to the Miami Pow
der Company, located between Xenia and
Yellow Springs, on the Little Miami rail
road, exploded about ten o'clock this morn
ing. Five men were killed, and one is miss
ing. who is supposed to be killed. The
grounds were strewn with timbers, etc, for
half mile around. Hundreds of windows
were broken at Yellow Springs, and this
! city was considerably shaken, bringing the
people to the streets in great alarm. No
| further particulars are yet received.
CINCINNATI, February 5.-A special to the
Chronicle says the names OF the killed in the
explosion Of the powder mill were Nero,
Ballard and Robinson (white), and Conley
(colored). COnley was blown into frag-
ments. Nothing could be found OF him but
portion of his head and trunk. The shock
was distinctly felt at Dayton, Urbana and
Nenia.
The amount of the loss has not been ascer-
tanned. Hundreds of citizens are hurrying
| to the scene of the disaster, and rendering
all possible assistance.
Duncan. a cOlOred man, was so badly
pected. Search is being made AMONG the
ruins for more workmen, some of which are
missing. The bodies of the dead are shock
ingly mutilated and burned. The mills are
situated some distance apart, but the con-
cussion was so great as to produce explosions
in all the rest.
A brick house standing nearly mile dis
tant had the windows completely blown out,
and otherwise damaged. Great excitement
| prevails.
CINCINNATI, February 5-The explosion
of the mills of the Miami Powder Company,
near Xenia, this morning, was one of the
most terrible in the history of powder max
ing in the West. The shock was so great
that in the adjacent towns and cities much
CONSERVATION ensued. In Dayton, chill
dren rushed from the school buildings, the
fire bells rang and there was general ap-
prehension that some great calamity had
occurred within the city limits. In Troy
and Tippecanoe houses were shaken as by
an earthquake.
The first explosion occurred in wheel
mill This communicated with the press
mill. where the powder was in process of
manufacture. 1t was contained in canvas
bags. The double playhouse, fifty feet
square, containing vast quantity of dry
this the flames started on their errands of
terrible destruction, other mills following
in quick succession.
the Ga-ettes special says two large
doabe lighthouses, three glaze-mills, one
| canning-mil two press and one packing
house were annihilated, while the remain
der Of the cOmpany's works were more or
less injured. The names of the killed are
Arthur Nero and David Conley, colored.
William Robbins, John Billiard and Henry
Duncan, colOred, are wounded in the head,
and will probably die. Samuel Miner was
blown across the mill and his hearing par
italy destroyed. Others were badly
stunned, barely escaping with their lives.
All the killed were men of families. From
twenty to twenty-five tons Of powder were
IN the destroyed buildings The company
estimate their loss at $250O0.