Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-28
TEN LIVES LOST
A Brace of Horrible Accident.
ported from the penr. Re.
Mining Districts, a
A Dynamite Factory Explodes. KIN.
Three Men-1ts Force Felt far
Nearly Five Miles.
Seven Men Killed and Five woOna.,,
the Fall of a Furnace-stack at v
Robesonia,
DEATH IN TWO suAn,s

' READING, Pa, Nov. IA tor,;,,
aster occurred this afternoon at sto,oh', U.s.
a small village in the western part NJ .'
county. Shortly before three o,cloo,l WIS
dynamite works of II. w. Stumn .. ~ lie
Gated about th%ree-quarters of a m; ~ 10
the town, exploded, causing Tho ron
death OF three men and the fatally iiislant
OF two others. The force of the exrnJ,|aI..As
was terrible, and wa felt distinctlyr ~ I.
city, eighteen miles distant. 'u,1e ~ 'as
was like an earthquake, and fine ''a "
buildings connected with the works lIe
blown to atoms. Two of the men "eFe
hurled a distance of 900 feet. and won we're
horribly mutilated that their bodies "e 30
only be recognized by the strips of clo t !
which clung TO the bits of bleedinr f'ass
scattered about the premises. One ., "t SM
men was blown high in the air, and Y,,. VIZ :
his body was found lodged in the brano,oo,,
OF a large oak tree a hundred feel AWAY
Those injured but not yet dead were w,"i.'
ing outside. on a scatfolding and w'.
pitched headlong to the ground 10y .,9
buried beneath the ruins. When I ,%a
debris was removed both men wo's
found bleeding and unconsci rv'v
The names of the victims are as follows ~.
three first named having been ]inst.n,Is.
killed: Frank Slatz. Joseph Krouse, Fr,N;.
Kapp. Harry Smith, VIM. Gross. VIA
The buildings in the %ncighborhool ,vo,,
badly shaken. Doors and shutters r "oso
torn from their hinges and winJons
smashed. The Lutheran Church was r0"o'
1aet,ly demolished and several dwelIinr,
wen uirooofcd. In the three hundred ~
more dwellings in the town, only a few ~
the window panes remain unbrokcn, In
Womclsdorf, Sheridan, Robesonia, New
manstown and Richland, neighboljng ,l-
lagos, the shock was so severe as to ,o1Io
over chimneys and break hundreds ot WIN.
dows.
R~oBEsoNIA, Pa, Nov. This yi},oa
was the scene Of a terrible and dis;r.,,9,
accident shortly before three O'Clock ye,i.F,
day afternoon, which resulted in tlleil.sllw.
death of seven men, and the serious inryrv
of five others. The men We're engagti in
lining one of the large stacks connected with
Ferguson IL Whites furnace near the town
The stack is about ono hundred and siyty leo.
high. Seven of the men Were wOrkingattte
bottom, and the other five near the to,
Suddenly, and without a moments VAIN
ing the structure began to trcmble ard ion
pied partly over, prccipitating about s;Xy
tons of brick and other material upC! those
at the bottom, crushing them 20 DEATH
Those on the top were also plunged into
the stack, but by hard work the villagers.
and employees succeeded in eytricatjns them
alive, although several were so hadly III
jured that they may die. Robe
sonia is only five miles from the
scene of the terrible dynamite explosion
at Stouchsburg yesterday afternoon. 1t is
believed that the shock produced by the
explosion caused the stack TO fan. The
damage may probably reach $4,000. The
killed are: Joseph Reed, David BUCKLEY.
Henry S%pangler, Henry Foot, Fred Fore
man, Monroe PETER, David Harden.
The injured are as follows: Louis Dcit.
rich yql!M WejnAadL Charles Boyer, Jacob
Fox, James McClosky.