Morning journal and courier., 1886-08-30
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. IA TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. A Powder Mill Makes Sad
 Havoc.
 MT. VESUVIUS DISTURBED. The Grecians Trembling
 With Fear. A HILARIOUS ENVOY. Prince Alexander to Re- turn to his People.
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.

Powder Magazine Explodes With Terrible Resulis-HOuses Torn to Splinters-Damage Six Miles Distant. CHIcGGo, August 29.-A severe shock like that of an earthquake was felt in every DOT tion of the city this morning. The cause was the explosion of the Laf1in and Rand Powder company's magazine, on the Archer road, near the Mccormick reaper works. It
 is supposed stroke of lightning struck the
 magazine and caused the explosion of dyna-
 mite and powder. The shock caved in the two
 magazines of the Oriental Powder company and those belonging to the Warren company, the Hazard, the Dupont and the Forcite companies shore houses. The Aetna, which
 stood about three-quarters of mile distant, was unharmed. The Latin and Rand con-
 pany's magazine was the only one which ex-
 ploded. The house of John Guhl, a driver
 for the Oriental Powder company, was flat
 tened out upon the ground, mass of kind
 ings. Guhl and his wife were fatally in-
 jured, and Carrie Ernwurth, their servant,
 was instantly killed The residence of Mrs. Devene was demolished in
 the same way. Mrs. Devene had her leg
 broken and her body bruised but suffered no
 
 heap of splnters and taken to the hospital. A farmer whose name could not be learned was driving past just when the explosion oc- cured His skull was fractured and his back badly lacerated by blocks of stone. He cannot live. The horse he was driving was killed and the wagon smashed to bits. The whole side of Justice Tearney's house near the Oriental Magazine was ripped off and the roof caved in but not one of the household was injured. Little Tom Tearney, nine years old, was lifted bodily from the back stoop on to an outhouse ten feet from the dwelling. The outhouse collapsed but the boy came out unhurt Several people received slight wounds from falling stone and number of of barns were riddled. The scene of the disaster was crowd ed with people this afternoon. Where the Laf1in & Rand works had stood was deep hole in which not 8 vestige of the building remained. Over the praire for half mile were scattered bits of stone and slivers from the roof timbers. A block of stone, said to weigh 150 pounde, went through the wall of the Grand Trunk round house, a mile north, and another dropped ] through the roof smashing in the cab of an | engine The Chicago and Alton round mousse nearly u ull6 nOrIn0aSG WAS rlQQloO | with small fragments and every window 1 smashed to pieces. John shannon, aged 15, and Willie and Dan Kelly, lads of the same l age, found a can of black powder on the ! prairie about three-quarters of mile from | the explosion. It was still hot and they had l a curiosity to know its contents. They | pried it open and the powder expl oded, | scorching them severely about the face and | hands. They may lose their sight. Throughout | southern and western portions of the city | damage to the extent of many thousands | of dollars was done by the explosion. | Plate windows all along State and Halstead s street and on Clark, Madison and several f other streets fully six miles distant were de- molished. Two plate glass windows in the Board of Trade building and one in the | Johnson building opposite were destroyed. l The congregations at St. Patricks church, | corner of Des Plaines and Adams streets, ! and at the Jesuit church on West Twelfth | street were panic-stricken and stampeded. | At the Jesuit church boy named Fitsger- l aid was thrown from a window by the | concussion. The farmer who was injured | and whose name could not be learned died | tonight at the county hospital. It is also I reported that Mrs. Devine will not recover. l