New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-25
HALFA TON OF POWDER GOTS UP
HAVOC AT MOUNT PLEASANT, OHIO.
LIVES ENDANGERED, BUILDINGS WRECKED
AND TREES SNAPPED OFF LIKE PIPE STEMS.

LIVES ENDANGERED, BUILDINGS WRECKED
AND TREES SNAPPED Off LIKE PIPE STEMS.
Wheeling W Va Dec 24.-Further advices just
received from Mount Pleasant, Ohio, the scene OF
Yesterdays terrible explosion, report that mono OF
the wounded have yet died, though some are IN
a critical condition. About 1000 pounds OF powder
exploded. The dynamite thirty tons stored In the
magazine was frozen hard and 1t did not explode or
the whole village would have been destroyed
The tunnel at which the terrible explosion oc-
Cured is known as Long Run Tunnel, the opening
OF which is at the mouth of Long Run, tributary
OF Short Creek in jefferson County, about nine miles
west of Martins Ferry. The tunnel is 500 feet In
length, one-hah Of which is completed WORK was
begun on 1t last August, since which time over 100
men have been working I'm It, The contractors are
Miller & McMann, OF New-York. At the opening
of the tunnel stood the blacksmith shop Fifty feet
distant was the magazine, and fifty or sixty feet from
this Is the dynamite Along short Creek, ABOUT
100 yards west Of this opening stood four buildings
One of these, measuring sixteen by forty feet and
stories high, occupied by the coiored laoor
ers. Adjoining this another building, the same
size which occupied by the italian iaborers, and
little further south a still larger building
known as the boardln house, in which the better
class Of the whites boarded On the north Of the
building occupied by the coored stood large
two-story building which known as the COM
mlssary. The magazine containing an immense guam
tity OF powder and dynamite, blown to atoms
also the blacksmith shop the Italians building
and the coored mems building. The general board
ing house and the commissary we're partially wrecked
One thousand yards from the general boarding house
is the farm. house of Benz Mulhorn, every light Of
glass In which broken and the house partially
wrecked.
The explosion occurred about 80 O'Clock, tearing
up the ground under the magazine to depth OF
ten feet twenty-fv feet wide and thlrty-fve feet
long, twisting wrenching and tearing large trees
like pipe stems, and flnng the air with debris OF
every description and not only killing one OF the
laborers and hurting many others seriously II not
fatally, but creating a panic among the remainder
of the employees and intense excitement in the neigh
borhood Charles Gleck, who was blown to atoms,
was nineteen, and from Charleston ". Va,
some months ago. One Irishman. age forty nine,
name not known, had cash three inches long cut
in the forehead, upper lip cut almost entirely on
and was internally injured Another IrishmaD had
his shoulder dslocated. Another man, unknown, had
two ribs broken and terribly cut about the face
and body One colored man, whose name is not
known, injured internally and carried away
unconscious. Four others were cut about the head,
face and body, and others sustained smaller injuries.
Miss Munker, McMann's housekeeper, received b!ow
on the head, cutting large CASH John Parrish,
colored had his foot crushed. Mr.. McMann, the
contractor, blown over into the creek, distance
OF about thirty feet, and, strange to say escaped
with slight injuries .
The explosion was, no doubt caused by Gleck's
own carelessness. Shortly before Il occurred he
was seen breaking the lock on the magazine door,
and entered with a Lighted pipe In his mouth.