St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-14
GIANT POWDER.
A Terrible Explosion Of Giant Powder
Near Toledo, 0hio---NO Lives
Lost.

TOLEDO, Nov. 13.-A violent explosion
been powder magazine situated about
four miles out of the city. 1t is reported
that six or seven men were killed. The
shock was plainly felt in town.
LATER.-A large lot of powder stored in
shed on theDelaware creek, four miles from
this city, exploded at 10 O'Clock this morn
ing. The report was heard forty miles in
every direction. Windows of houses in
that quarter of the city were generally
broken. AT Broadway school, three miles
from the scene. windows were smashed and
scholars states holding windows up, were
broken. Several persons working in the
shed were seen running and shouting.
Everybody near took this as a signal of
danger and fed. A terrific explosion fol-
lowed, but all were far enough away TO escape
except an old man called Fred, who had
charge of the shed. He had got some dis
lance away, but was thrown down and his
hair scorched by the explosion. A spring
wagon containing a man and three women
in the road a hundred yards away, was
blown into ditch, but no one was seriously
injured. Fences were leveled in the vicln-
ity, and limbs blown from trees
The ruins ignited from the explosion.
Men are fighting the fire to keep it
from reaching large lot of petroleum stored
near by.
A STILL LATER ACCOUNT.
The explosion was in the giant powder
factory of A. j. and o. B. Rummel, consist
ing of sac kpacling house and magazine,
and stock house, situated in the crown of a
little knoll in the Delware creek, surrounded
by dense thicket of trees. The workmen
in the packing house were throwing out a
tub containing twenty-six pounds Of nitro
glycerine and let it too near the fire. The
tub caught fire and the men threw it outside
and gave the alarm. An instant after the
tub exploded, the conclusion setting off the
magazine containing ten tons of gaint
powder, known to the trade as ''great west
ern powder" The stock building was
thrown down, imprisoning the men working
therein and caught fire. All extricated them
selves with no greater injuries than bruises,
except Rhinehold Gault, who was badly
burned all over the body. Getting out of
blazing ruins he dashed into the creek to ex-
tinguish his burning clothing. He was
taken TO house near by and medical aid
summoned. He will probably recover. A
house near by owned by q man named
Beach, was badly shattered, and another
belonging to Mr.. Wilson entirely wrecked.
The house of refuge, half mile away, had
the wall on that side shattered near the ton
and over eighty windows smashed, shash in
cluded. One side was blown off an ice
house 100 yards away. Barns and fences
near by were demolished, and telegraph
poles thrown down. There was a panic in
the two city school houses in that section of
the city, and in the stampede many children
were badly bruised but none seriously in
jured. The total loss on the powder works
and powder in stock is about $4,000. The
explosion was felt in Detroit, Michigan,
sixty miles distant.
THOUGHT 1T WAS A DEMOCRATIC JoLLIFIcArroN
CLEVELAND. o., Nov. 13.-The rumble
and shock caused by the explosion at Toledo
was plainly heard and felt this morning at
Leavittburg, distant from Toledo about $50
miles, on an air line. Here ll2 miles
east from Toledo, persons who observed the
motion thought it was an earthquake. At
Chagrin Falls, tweuty-four miles southeast of
here, it was supposed cannons were being
fred in this city over the election returns.
and telephone inquiries were made to ascer-
tain what the artillery salute signifed.