The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-03
FRIeHTFUL EXPLOSION.


Scene of IndescribabIe Ruin.
CHICAGO, Aug, 3O.-At fifteen minutes
past nine O'Clock yesterday morning, in
the midst of heavy thunderstorm, the
powder magazine belonging to the Latin
Rand Powder Company was struck by
lightning. An explosion followed which
destroyed property valued at SIS, 900.
One person killed and four fatally iniure
The dead and injured are:
Miss Carrie Aherenworth, killed in.
stantly.
John Guhl, teamster for the Oriental
Powder Company, ribs fractured; right
leg broken in two places; internal
wounds.
Mrs. Guni, skull crushed.
Mrs. Eliza Devine, right leg crushed to a |
jelly; breast transfixed by strip o glass.
Besides the one dead, and four who
can not survive, the following is partial
list of those who are knowR to be serious
" injured:
Peter Kenn, twenty-eight years old;
gardener.
james Shannon, sixteen years oldt par
ents reside on Joseph street and Pearson
avenue.
Two Kelly brothers, fourteen and six
teen years old respectively; parents re.
side on Western avenue, near Thirty
sixth street.
Madden, small boy, whose parents re.
side on Thirty street, near Pear
son avenue.
Philip Bowler, cabinet-maker, 722
South Union street, arm crushed by flying
stone, and amputated.
John Lordey, Jr., seventeen years old, OF
l65 Cmalport avenue; leg badly crushed.
John Jung, fifty-twO years old, garden
er; resides south of Archer road.
Mrs. Jung, fOrty-six years old, wife of
the former.
Miss Kennedy, eighteen years old; par
ents reside on johnson street, a quarter
of mhe from the scene.
The shock caved in the two magazines
of the Oriental Powder Company, and
also those belonging to the Warren Com
pany, the Hazard, the Dupont companies
and the Forcite dynamite stOrehOuse.
The Latin & Rand C0mpany's was the
only one which exploded. Where it
stood is now an immense excavation
nearly fifty feet in depth.
The combined efforts Of a hard-fouoht
battle, a cyclone and the whitening in
fuence of lightning could not have pre-
sented 4 picture of more abicct desoll-
tion and destruction than did the country
for half a mile in all directions from the
exploded magazine. The day had open
ed gloomily. At eight O'Clock rain be-
Sttu IdIltt2 lut iOuSjF from uiICElSC yHllAS
OF clouds. Flashes OF lightning were
seen chasing each other across the entire
armament, until the heavens seemed
ablaZe. The thunder was deafening.
About a quarter past nine a fash,
which all agree was much brighter
than those which preceded it, was
followed by a report that shook the
greater part of Cook County. 1t was
sharp report, but, strange to say, by most
of those who lived in the vicinity of the
explosion it was hardly distinguishable
from the series of thundcr-claps which
had been the order of the morning. All
agree that there was a tremendous shak-
ing of the earth. Articles of furniture
not stationary we're thrown about as if
| they were playthingS in oian's power
Men, women and children were tossed
! around at the VIII of the terrible, resist
| less force released by the explosion.
The scene of the catastrophe is about
| two miles from the extreme southwest
eIn edge Of the city, near where Archer
avenue settles down into q conventional
country highway. On one side were five
| great fields of ripening corn. On the
| other q broad stretch of prairie runs for
| nearly a mile in all directions. On this
aIe, or rather were, a dozen plain, but
| stroneIy-built houses, with walls of yell
| low brick, roofs of slate and strong iron
| doors, used as magazines.
The force of the explosion travelled
| across the city in nOrtherly and easterly
| direction and left trail about three
| qUa arteTS of a mile wide. The shock was
! distinctly felt in all parts of the city, and
| many people were greatly frightened.
! The explosion played sad havoc at the
! BrideWeH. The fGmaie prisoners were
! terribly frightened, but none were injured.
| Mrs. Armour, one of the matrons, was in
| the upper hail in the rear part of the
! building. She was prostrated by the
| nervous shock, and will not be able to
attend to duty for several days. The
ceiling in the upper floor of the main
/ building was cracked through from
/ east to west i'll straight line, and
! patches OF the plastering fell in all parts
| of the building. The greatest damage
was done TO the ceiling in the main hall,
which was nearly all torn down. Several
! doors in the building were blown from
| their hinges, and about two hundred
! panes of glass were broken.
! At McCOrmick'S works about two hun
! dred panes of glass on the river side Of
! the building were broken, the building
/ was shaken, and doors were blown from
/ their hinges.
The Board OF Trade building, althou
| seven miles from the scene of the eX-
! plosion, was greatly affected by the dis
! turbed condition of the atmosphere.
! The main hall on the second floor is
lighted by three sheets of plate glass,
each about twelve feet square. The
| upper and lower of these sheets were
shattered, none of the fragments being
larger than a ffty-cent piece. The man
who cleans the electric-light lamps was
i'm the tower, which is $50 feet high,
| doing this work when the explosion oc-
| Cured. He states that the tower swayed
| in a way that led him TO fear that
! the structure would topple over. The
! shock of the explosion was distinctly felt
/ at the Palmer House and caused a sud.
/ den extinGuishment of all the lights in the
! barber shop. The substantial hotel was
| shaken from the roof to the foundation.
! The same may be said Of the Grand Pa
! cifc Hotel. In the Union building, in
| which are located the general offices Of
! the Associated Press, many windows
| were broken.
| The Haddock Murder Inquest Concluded,
Sioux CITY, Ia, Aug. 29.-The cor
oner's jury that was called August t.