River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-02-16
TERRIFIC EXPLOSIONS.

The Dupont Powder Marufactory at wap-
waIlopen. Pa, Blown Up-Four Persons
Killed and Forty Others Badly IuJured
Every building in the village Damaged
surrounding Towns shaken-severaI
Lives Lost by Explosions at Other
Places.
MANGLED BY BURSTING POWDER
WuKEsBARRE, Pa, Feb. Il IA violent ex-
plosIon occurred at the Dupont powder
works at Mapwallopen at 9:55 Yesterday
morning in which four men were killed,
many injured. and great deal of
damage done. Peter Kishbough, Jfeorre
SCOUT. Clean Teats and John Rossman
were at work in the pack eng house
where a great quantity of powder was
stored. when the explosion happened
How the accident occurred is not known.
as the four mer were blown to pieces Over
forty other men We're more or less seriously
hurt, and every buildlng in WapwallOpen
WIS either damaged or wrecked At Nanti-
coke, Shickshinny and Wananie neigh
boring villages, glass was broken and
chimneys were toppled over The shock
was distinctly felt in Wilkesbarre, although
twenty miles away. None of the injured
VII die. The injuries were mostly caused
By flying fragments The new Methodist
church at Wapella, Pa, 500 feet away, was
completely wrecked There were TWO tons
OF powder in the building There is no
trace OF the pacing house left, not even
the foundation. Rocks weighing over a
hundred pounds We're blown to a top of a
mountain a quarter of a mile away Du-
points loss. and the loss OF some thirty
buildings more or less shattered, viii be
several thousand dollars
RLowN TO PIECES BY NITRo-oLYCERNE
TFFIN, o., Feb 1O-Mr Pinckuey, of
Toledo. the well-shooter, and Harry John
son, a workman, were literally blown TO
pieces by an explosion of nitro glycerine at
Bellevue yesterday. Some time ago 100
quarts Of nitro- glycerine was shipped 10
b -ilevue 10 be used in shooting a
well, and buried for sale keeping
in a deep pit until it could be used The
two men nameI were digging the explosive
up when, according to one account, one Of
them struck his pick into the nitro-glycer-
inc. 1t exploded at once. Not a piece of
the body of either of the men weigh ng
five pounds could be found, but shreds of
flesh and bloody matter hung on the
trees and rocks and roofs Of houses
for great distance from the mine The
buildings in the neighborhood of the ex-
plosion We're badly wrecked, aud the shock
was felt at Thin. sandusky, Pu lin Bay and
o;her places large crowd OF people who
were at the gas well narrowly escaped with
their lives. The scene about the place
where the nitro-glycerine was fired is de-
scrlbed as one OF peculiar desolation and
wreck
KILLED By BoILEB EXPLOSION
WABASH, Ind. Feb. IA boiler exploded
on the farm OF John Spencer near Lincoln
vile yesterday, killing two men They
had Just started up a s3wing-machne
when the explosion took place, in
stantly killing S T. Smith John Hale
had the top of his head blown off and
died an hour afterward. Several others
We're hurt by the flying pieces of the boiler,
but the thickness of the underground saved
their lives. Nothing was left of the saving
but a wheel and a few scraps of iron
Pumping cold water into the boiler caused
the accident