The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-11-14
TEN LIVES LOST.
A Brace Of Horrible Accidents Re.
ported from the Pennsylvania
Mining Districts.
A Dynamite Factory Explodes, Killing
Three Men-Its Force Felt for
Nearly Five Miles.
Seven Men Killed and Five Wounded by
the Fall Of Furnace-Stack at
Robesonia.
DEATH IN TWO SHAPES.

READING, Pa, Nov. IA terrible dis
aster occurred this afternoon at Stouchsburg,
small village in the western part of this
county. Shortly before three o'clock the
dynamite works of H. W. Stump & Co., To-
Gated about three-quarters of mile from
the town, exploded, causing the instant
death of three men and the fatally injuring
of two others. The force of the explosion
was terrible, and was felt distinctly in this
city, eighteen miles distant The noise
was like an earthquake, and the FIVE
buildings connected with the works were
blown to atoms. Two of the men were
hurled distance of 800 feet, and were so
horribly mutilated that their bodies could
only be recognized by the strips of clothing
which chung to the bits of bleeding flesh
scattered about the premises. One of the
men was blown high in the air, and part of
his body was found lodged in the branches
of large oak tree a hundred feet away.
Those injured but not yet dead were work.
ing outside on ScatfOlding and were
pitched headlong to the ground and
buried beneath the ruins. When the
debris was removed both men were
found bleeding and unconscious.
The names of the victims are as follows, the
three first named having been instantly
killed: Frank Slatz, Joseph Krouse, Frank
Kapp, Harry Smith, VIM. Gross.
The buildings in the neighborhood were
badly shaken Doors and shutters were
tom from their hinges and windows
smashed. The Lutheran Church was COM
pletely demolished and several dwellings
were Hnrooofed. In the three hundred or
more dwellings in the town, only few of
tbo IT,,
Womelsdorf, Sheridan, RObesonia, New
jamestown and Richland, neighboring viii
lagos, the shock was so severe as to topple
over chimneys and break hundreds of WIN
dowS.
RoBEsoNIA, Pa, Nov. This village
was the scene of a terrible and distressing
accident shortly before three o'clock yester-
day afternoon, which resulted in the instant
death of seven men, and the serious injury
of five others. The men were engaged in
lining one of the large stacks connected with
Ferguson & Whites furnace near the town.
| The stack is about one hundred and sixty feet
| high. Seven of the men were working at the
| bottom, and the other five near the top.
| Suddenly, and without moments warm
ing the structure began to tremble and top
| pied partly over, precipitating about sixty
tons OF brick and other material upon those
at the bottom, crushing them to DEATH.
Those on the top were also plunged into
the stack, but by hard work the villagers
and employees succeeded in extricating them
alive, although several were so badly In
! 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 fall The
damage may probably reach $4,000 The
killed are: Joseph Reed David Buckley,
Henry Spangler, Henry Foot, Fred Fore
r man, Monroe PETER, David Harden.
The injured are as follows: Louis Deit-
rich, John Weinhold Charles Boyer, Jacob
! Fox, James McClosky.