Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-16
CASUALTIES.

Fearful Explosion In the Dupont Powder
Mllls-Blizzard Etatis:ics-Other Accir
dents.
WlIKEsBAnRE, Pa, Feb. 1l.-At ten
o'clock this morning severe shock was
felt in this city. Shortly afterward it was
learned that violent explosion had CO
CURED at Dupont's powder works at Wap
wallopen, twenty tniles from here, and
four men were instantly killed. They
were Peter Kshbaugh. George Stout
John Ross and John Tee 8. The en-.
plosioti took place IN the packing house,
where several tons Of powder had been
stored. The cause Of the at".:.eut rs not
known as yet. The explosion was the most
violent that ever occurred in the Wyoming
valley. 1t occurred at $3.50 o'clock this
morning: The force Of the shock was dis
tinctly felt here Ths windows in all the
buildings ratified and officials in the court
house here thought there Was an
earthquake, as the building shook
violently. At Nanticoke and Wanna
mic chimneys toprlel from the
roofs of buildings, aud school children
ran in terror from the school houses Men
and women fiocked towards the mines, and
ahcre the members OF their families were
at work. At Shickshinny, the glass in al
most every window was broken aud many
persons were thrown to the ground. At
Wapwallopen nearly every window was
damaged. Besides the killed. over forty
persons were injured, fourteen Of whom it is
said will die The bodies Of the four men
who perished were blown to pieces, and
only small portions have been found.
THE BLIzz ARD DEATH L,sT.
MINSEApOLIs. Mimi, Feb. 1.-THE Epss-
ing Journal in a long article declares that
the reports of thousand deaths by storm
in Dakota were much exaggerated, and
states that as far as learned he following
is an authentic summary Of the loss of life
in the recent storm: Beadle County, 8; Bon
homme, 10; Coddington, 5; Jerauld, 81:
Clark, 9; EImunds, 6; Brown. 5; Hand, Z;
Kingsbury, 3; Lincoln, %; Sphinx, 4; Tur-
ner, IS; Yank.Cn 8; total, ia.
WRECK AND SUFFERING.
CioNrARF, Mimi, Feb 1.-THE regular
Manitoba passenger train gong north was
wrecked here yesterday through i broken
fange on AN engine wheel. Mrs. Benis, OF
Crt ks on. and Henry Cast, Of Milwaukee,,
sustained probably fatal injuries and a
dozen other, were severely bruised. As
tho cold was intense, the mercury being
forty degrees below, the wrecked pas
sengers suffered severely.
TWO MEN BLOWN TO PIECES.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 1.-Two men were
digging up some dynamite which had been
buried to protect it until wanted to use In
a gas we'll near Bellevue, when one Of them
struck the explosive with his pick and an
explosion followed, killing the two men
and causing such a shock "a to suggest an
earthquake at Tiffin, Sandusky. Put in Bay
and other points In that locality.
TWO swITCmMEN KILLED.
CHICAGO, Feb. 11.--At the Thirty-thrd
street crossing Of the Pittsburgh, For,
Wayne q Chicago road last night, switch
man TIL, mas Muldarry was ran over by q
freight car which had been derailed. II
then kept on its course, plunged into an
other car and billed John Bell, another
switchman.
TWO MEN KILLED.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. lin Liberty
township. Wabash County, yesterday
afternoon j. T. Smith and joel Hale were
killed by the explosion Of the boiler of q
portable engine. The explosion was caused
by pumping cold water into the super
heated boiler.