Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-02-18
Povser of Nitro-Glycerine.

A dispatch on the 9th inst, from
Bradford Pa, says: A terrible nitro.
giycerine explosion occurred about
nine O'Clock this morning at Corwin
Centre, . short distance froro Bradford
Howard Tsckett of Forestville, N. T.,
aged twenty five, unmarried, Vas fear
fully nangled and killed; James Feen-
ey vas fatally injured; team Of
horses we're killed and three houses
we're wrecked, the inmates having .
marrow escape from death. Tackett
and Feeney started from Bradford this
morning for Colleville, with one hun
dred pound, Of slycerine. They we're
driving q pair OF horses attached to .
box sleigh. The deadly compound was
put up in ten cans, one quart in each.
The road. we're terribly bad. About
half . mile from Corwin in crossing q
bad rut the sleigh va, upset, and the
ground being frosen hard, an awful ex-
plosion occurred Tackett who Was
driving, wss literally torn to pieces,
He Was thrown high into the air, and
hurled about seventy feet His clothes
we're torn of, his head almost severed
from his body and his right arm torn
out at the socket. lie Was disembowl-
ed and otherwise fearfully nangled.
Feeney was on the seat with Tsckett,
and seeing that the sleigh was about to
upset, jumped backwards q distance of
perhaps ten feet, falling on his face and
hands. Less than . second after, the
explosion occurred. A hole Eve feet
deep and about nine feet in width Was
made. Feeuey was found IN the edge
Of this hole, covered with ice, dirt and
several broken fence rsils. Remarkable
to relate he escaped alive.
The force of the conclusion caused
the blood to stream out of his mouth
and ears, while. his eyes were badly
discolOred. Two men picked him up
and be walked TO . neigboring house
apparently uniDjured. His injuries,
however, are though. to be fatal. 1t
is perhaps the only case on record
where such an escape from instant
death was made. The shock was like
that Of an earthquake. The shock was
like that of an earthquake. The one
aud half story frame house Of Charles
Seely, about forty feet from the road,
was totally wrecked. The roof was
torn of and the front blown into kind
liDgwood Mrs. Seely was iu the
kitchen when the explosion occurred.
She escaped from the flying debris
without even a scratch. Further away
toward the west the house of Charles
Dolloph was wrecked: windows with
the sashes we're blown in and every
thing in the place shaken up. Mrs.
Dolloph and four children were in the
house. Little Edna was badly cut in
the breast BY flying glass, and her sis
ter was burned by the falling stoye.
A barn close by was also thrown down;
of the sleigh nothing bat the seat and
whiffietrees were found The balance
was distributed to the four winds of
the heavens. Tackett and Feeney took
the place Of two men killed by similar
explosion last September only in the
first case there was not enough found
Of one Of the men to hll cigar box.
Both men we're sober and industrious.
Charles Dolloph, farmer, wa, less
thar twenty rod, away when the e1-
plosion occurred; the shock threw him
from his seat, the horses he was driv-
ing being badly frightened. Feency
was brought to this city and is receiv-
ing the best medical aid.