The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-02-17
CASUALTIES.

Fearful Explosion In tho Dupont Powder
Mtlis-Bllzzard stAtfstics-Other Acct.
dents.
WuKEsBARRE, Pa, Feb 10-At ten
o'clock this morning q severe shock was
felt IN this city. Shortly afterward it was
learned that o violent explosion had &C.
CURED at Dupont's powder works at Esp-
wallopen, twenty miles from here, and
four men were instantly killed. They
were Peter Kishbaugh, George Stout,
John Ross and John Tcets. The ex-
plosion took place in the packing house,
where several tons Of powder had been
stored The cause Of the accident is not
known as yet. The explosion was the most
violent that ever occurred in the Wyoming
valley. 1t occurred at 9:55 O'Clock this
morning. The force OF the shock was dis
t;nctly felt here. The 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
mie chimneys toppled from the
roofs OF buildings, aud school children
ran in terror from the school houses Men
and women fiocked towards the mines, and
where the members OF their families were
ut work. At Shickshinny, the glass in al
most every window was broken and 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 persisted were blown to pieces, aud
only small portions have been found.
THE BLIZzA ARD DEATH LIST.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Feb. 1.-THE Ecen-
iag Journal in long article declares that
the reports of thousand deaths by storm
in Dakota were much exaggerated, and
states that AS far as learned the following
is an authentic summary Of the loss of life
in the recent storm Beadle County, .; Bon
homme. 10; Cojdington, 8; Jerauld, 6;
Clark, 9; Edmunds, 6; Brown, 5: Hand. Z;
Kingsbury, 3; Lincoln, %; SPHINX, 4; Tur-
ner, Is; Yank,cn, 3; total, ia.
WRECK AND SUFFERING.
CLoNTARF, MIMI, Feb. 1.-THE regular
Manitoba passenger train gong north was
wrecked here yesterday through broken
Aange on an engine wheel. Mrs. Bemis, OF
Crookston. and Henry Cast, of Milwaukee,.
sustained probably fatal injuries and
dozen others were severely bruised. As
the cold was intense, the mercury being
forty degrees below, the wrecked pas
seugers suffered severely.
TWO MEN BLOWN TO PIECES.
CINCINNATL Feb. 1.-Two men were
digging up SINE dynamite which had been
buried to protect it until wanted to use in
3 gas we'll near Bellevue, waen one of them
struck the explosive with his pick and an
explosion followed, killing the two men
and causing such a shock as to sugges: an
earthquake ut THIN, Sandusky. Put in Bay
and other points in that locality.
TWO swITCHMEN KILLED.
CHICAGO, Feb. 1l.-At the Tn!rty-third
street crossing of the Pittsburgh. Fort
Wayne & Chicago road last night. switch
man Thomas Muldarry was ran over by
freight car which had been derai,ed. 1t
then kept on It's course, plunged into an
ether car and Killed John Eel, another
swi;chmap.
TWO MEN KILLED.
INpIASAPoLis, Ind, Feb. 1I.-In Liberty
township. Wabash County, yesterday
afternoon ]. I. Smith and joel Hale were
killed by the explosion Of the boiler OF
portable engine. The explosion was caused
by pumping cold water into the super
Heated boiler,