Daily Republican., 1882-02-18

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candles thst went oG in the buildin
did ,uat make an explosion l had II
tended putting even a slower cen.bh'
tible In the star shells; have never la
nitro glycerine there; In the upper stor
of the largo building there we're rockets
etc.
Samuel Jackson, Jr., sworn-Am ;
son OF Professor jackson; have an in
terest in the business, and am general,
in charge; the froH. of the building
faces the river; the building IL two an,
a half stories high with back build
ing with one story and al attic in tn
rear OF this is frame kitchen th
main building has front of 40 feet an,
depth of 25, the second building is 2
feet deep by 10 in front; there is doc
leading from the fame part to the next
building and there is a space dividing
the two larger buildings; there is OF
the second door way at the head OF tn,
stairs from the middle room dowr
stairs there is a door leading into thu
loft OF the frame building, but 1t is no
used we get to the garrett Of the mair
building by a stairway leading to the
attic; was not in the city when the ex
plosion occurred lett the building al
) 90 p. III. on Thursday; in little room
on the second story of the main build
ing is an apartment known as tbs
dressing room; there was no powder In
the main tuilainP; 4. was kept in ths
two magazines in an adjoining build.
ing, we had on hand two kegs Of gun
powder and two kegs of meal powder,
a total of 100 rounds; there is no pow.
der there now, it having been removed
at the time of the fire; the magazin ne is
intact; never had nitrog ycerine in the
place; In the attic were stored eolOred
stars for filling rockets, etc, and five
pounds of rocket composition, such as
charcoal, saltpetre, sulphur, etc, which
would not explode unless the Tre
reached 1t; about the same degree oi
heat would explode this as would OK.
plode pewder: they would have an up.
ward tendency; the colored stars sim
ply burn they are kept senarate in
boxes and cans; we had about l5l
pounds Of these, and never knew they
would make such an explosion; tho fire
originated in the dressing room in the
nttlc of the large building were 4, 8 and
S-inch shells Immediately over the
room where the rockets we're stored
they were in paper mortars and had the
fire reached the stars they would have
exploded Van Horn opens UP the
building; in the attic of the large
building were 100; would have been
afraid to have gone among the shells al
the time of the fire because they con.
tanned powder would not have been
afraid of the stars; ! would have eau
toned the fireman to say away from
the building: Van Horn has been in our
employ several wears and understands
the explosive nature of shells; he
thought the stars were harmless; we dc
not use camphor about the building
these colored stars are made of harm.
less chemicals heat would not make
them explode; it takes a blow to dc
this.
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purihe 'no Pios.oss u .no an4,'o,,'
Dubiic meeting OF citlZens was ,,. ne,u III
another room Oh tne same o'ilulns' ms
Inc meeting was called py t'e mayor,
James barton, ~ W ue'ise way > anu
means OF pro'lulhg 'or inc ia.liiles Vi
ihe deaa anu I'D urea, "A suVsclipe'oh
uat WIS opeheu' an' III sh9'. ''ne
gro were suosclloeo, oa ~n,ch sun
1"ui i'onch saso P-'o e,nay' S,gno %W.
Manulact,srins COMPANY, np e'Vo, " H.
o',hPsoh ~ pun, Si'o, iienIS slnS Iainet ,
gov, "a nl"hoiS " oo"' Soo' VIE SO. ~
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anu olo pai"hoo was 'h"'0 up III 'in"i'-
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iree nan iasT e,oniis ID l.. p"hei
presiaru' Sp'aeo.lons ne no"eu iH sums
ltom w " NJ Sloo anu a, somio 'ew VI l'ss1i 1
ahioun.s. 1io "estesa.e VI 'ho oo'
iec'ions anu I'M suosetipI!ohS ieacl-
eu So21;r. i,I, Inc ptincipai uo''or' u, .
were Wlltiam a'i Applooy, eooi dn. ~.
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lholnas ocae'eleo1u, gov M'ieo. SO :"
Dlack, GOV, Jau!es itvins ~ oons' gov.
oeVefas gehCienlch aouresseu 'i'e lnee'
ins:
MT John l'oacu sugeesteu tla1 every
factory ana snop IN Ihe CITY ana borough
sou part one quarter ol uay wages
on tiie part Vi Iue einploses ior 'he
p'heht OF the Re llel lanu, ApPIauSe'
re was sure aI ieas' Sooo "oulu 10 raiS
eu py this system III MS own shipyata
"A mot1on was carriou " P"1a sunScrip-
tioh oox III every factory anu sn"p III
inc Guy ana porou9h. MI Noacn pe
i'eVeo .haI tue ca'aillty wa Que " !, he
eVlls Oh the system Vi 'he '%oluhte % llif
ucPiIIhieht' IL bheie hau 'oeh t'in'
IT,, tha ,,, a,,i.I Nv, ,,w, hoan
reckless i'll placing themselves in dan.
ger by getting upon tho roofof the
building lie was willing to do all IN
bispoWer towards giving Chester paid
fire department.
Oliver C. Mcclure, a member of the
Franklin Fire Company, said they had
a competent President, who acted as a
chief engineer. Their President was
Mr.. Doble, who, upon arriving at the
sc.ue of ths calamity that morning, in
quired If there were any explosives Oh
the premises, or any danger Of that
character, and was told by Sam. Jack
son, Jr., the Prof, ssor's son, that there
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