Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-02-15
TERRIFIC EXPLOSIONS,

The Dupont Powder Ma ,ufactory at Wap-
wallopen. fa., Blown Up-Fonr Persons
Killed and Forty Others Badly ItJurod
Every building in the Village Damaged
Surrounding Towns Shnlsen-s.verai
Lives Lost by Explosions at Other
PlAces. f.
MANoLED BY BURSTING POWDER
WHKEsBARRE, Pa, Feb. ia Violent ex-
ploslon occurred at the Dupont powder
works ut Wapwaliopen ut O:65 yesterday
morning In which four men were killed,
many injured, and q great deal of
damage done. Peter K!shbough, George
out Olean Teats and John RossMan
were at work in the pack ;ng- house
where great quantity of powder was
sored, when the explosion happened.
How the accident occurred is not known,
a. the four men were blown to pieces Over
forty other men Were more or less seriously
hurt, and every building in Wapwallopen
VS. either damaged or wrecked. At Nantl-
coke. Shickshinny and Wananie, neigh.
boring Villages glass was broken and
c'''mneys were toppled over. The shock
was distinctly felt in WilkesUa1re, although
twenty miles away. None of the injured
viii die. The injuries were mostly caused
BY flying Fragments The new Methodist
church ut Wapella. Pa, 300 feet away, was
completely wrecked. There were two tons
OF powder In the building There is no
trace OF tho pacing house left not even
tha foundation. Rocks weighing over q
hundred pounds were blown to q ton of o
mountain quarter OF b mile away Du-
points loss, and the loss OF some thirty
buildings, more or less shattered, will be
several thousand dollars
RroWN ~ prrcrs nv Nrrpo ov v~u,r,,r,
TTFN, O., Feb 1O-Mr Pinckney, Of
Toledo, the we!l-shooter, and Harry John
son, workman. were literally blown to
pieces by an explosion of nitro glyoerine at
Bellevue yesterday. Some time ago 100
quarts OF nllro-glyoerine was shipped to
B ilevue to DO used in shooting q
e we'll, and buried for safe keeping
in deep pit until it could be used The
two men name 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 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 nelghborhood of the ex-
plosion were badly wrecked, and the shock
was felt at Thin. Sandusky. Pu -iu- Bay and
o'her places A large crowd of paople who
were at the gas well narrowly escaped with
tier lives. The scene about the place
where the nitro-glyoerine was fired is de-
scribed as one Of peculiar desolation and
wreck
KILLED By A Bo114EB 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 saving machine
whom the explosion took place, in
stantly killing s. T. Smith. John Hale
had the top of his head blown off and
died IN hour afterward Several others
were hurt by the flying pieces of the boiler,
but the thickness of the underground saved
their lives Nothing was left Of the saving
but wheel and few scraps of iron
Pumping cold water into the boiler caused
tho aroIont