New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-19
THREE MEN KILLED BY An EXPLOSION.
ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE LATL1N RAND
POWDER WORKS

ANOTHER Fatal. ACCIDENT AT TIE LATL1N & RAND
POWDER WORKS
People living for miles round Singack, Passalc
county n J. were startled Yesterday afternoon be-
tween half-past 1 and 2 O'Clock by heavy e1pio-
sion The residents of that noighborhood. who In
late years have become accustomed TO such shocks
at once conectured that the powder works at SIN
gack Mountain View. Wayne sta ion. as the
locality IS variously called. had been the scene OF
an explosion. Crowds fastened to the spot to find
the ruins of demolished buildings and the mangled
fragments of three human bodies.
The Latin & Rand Powder Works are situated
in Wayne township between the Ramapo River and
the New-York and Greenwood Lake Railroad, and
a short dis ance above the point where the Ramap0
flows into the Passaic. The structures are for the
IN st part of rather fral constructions the habil-
ty to destruction at any time renders it unwise 10
erect substantial buildings for the manufacture OF
powder The portion of the property destroyed
Yesterday consisted of one press. where the pow
der was pressed into thin cakes. and the corn
ing mill where it broken int grains. me
thee victims of the explosion were employees IN we
mills, who were just about 10 QUIT work when me
disaster occurred. They were John White, an old
hand Henry kuhl, a recent Immigrant, am bT'in
1ansey. They all III the COruin< mill az Inc
time. White mad just brought a cart on he tram
way with some 20 der cakes from press mil
kuhl was feeding the pOwCer t. the corning Inili
and Tansey was Just leaving the MIL vi q some
cnrned powder for the finishing house, who The
corning mil shot up INTO the arr and came down
on ifs side Kuhl WAS lodged in she raiters aud
bauly hanged. WHte's leg broken ana
be was otherwise Djufed ms body was thrown
several hundred feet lausey was less m4ngieG.
All three had their clOt e stripped completely OIL
Dea n IN all eases was instantaneous White was
manned. No eau g is known for the explosion,
The press mil which cdugIt on hre JUS a or tde
explosion and was destroyed, had no powder IN 1t
except lttle dust II vas not IN Use 1T the lln..
An undertaken rom Pater Oh wen Slpgack with
Coroner Campbell 10 { k charge 0. }" bodies.
Tne saUck dis iIctiy iet IA Paterson, about
five mics distant. ueIIg cSJrclaIIy we're IN iht
buDurO lotoNa. whore houses were perccptlbiY
shaken In tne cOmtry Immatl2 IL alb a. the
pOWacr WoIAs ther" was gcn"r demolition OF
wlndo glass. nc residents Oi that part OF
the country have had reason 10 become
accustomed to sdcn eXposlOus in recent years.
GA ebiuaIy Z. INI1tht grinding mil al Tie Laiiin
* Rand POMael Works blew up, and one man WAS
IA ally InII4cI. Il NUyrnDr =, 1850. Two men
Wer, Killed ~ an cXJ.OsiOI wIlch npl. Ii Il
IA &c par Of the Ks In addition 10 THESE dlSas-
trrS. thtTe have ben number OF
similar ones al the Rand works, which
Tor ncrly maze preparation of ni,IO-giyc rlAc
known Zen .TJcn, "ni later IntnuId, tiiru
sort of gUu-c .ttOn. AZ thcse works, on about Il
mile Northeast OF the Lailu Il Rama NOrAs. ard
yIIg in a basin be wecu hills 1T PrsakneSs, there
were explosions Oh February o. 1870 Jaauary :,
1876, when d man lost MS eyes: July ,, 1873;
Dec -mOeT IS. 1878. wan thrse men wee killed.
and January b, 1850. when ,wO men were badly III
uprl.