Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-25
AWFUL EXPLOSION.
A Dynamite Magazine Blown Up With
Awful Force.
Many People More or Less Seriously Hurt.
Some Queer Cases-Caused by Pure
Carelessness-The Wounded.

WHEELING, w. VA. Dec. "a Further
ant, the scene of yesterdays terrific ex-
plosion, report that none of the wounded
have yet died, though some are IN crit
zeal condition. About 10, 600 pounds of
powder exploded. The dynamite stored
III magazine was frozen hard, and it
did not explode, or the whole village
would have been destroyed. The tunnel
at which the terrible explosion occurred
is known as the Long Run tunnel. At
the opening of the tunnel stood black
smith shop. Fifty feet distant was the
magazine. Fifty or sixty feet from this
is the dynamite cave. Along Short
creek, about 100 yards west of the OPEN
ing, stood four buildings. One of these,
measuring l6Xf0 and two stories high,
was occupied by the coIOred laborers.
Adjoining this was another build
ing the same size, which was
occupied by the Italian Iaborers;
and little further south was Il still larger
building, known as the boarding house
i'll which the better class of whites
boarded. On the north of the building
occupied by the colored men stood Il two
story building, which was known as the
commissary. The magazine, containing
Fan immense quantity of powder and dy-
Mantle was blown to atoms, as was also
the blacksmith shop, the Italians build
ing ana the colored men : building The
general boarding house and commissarv
were partially wrecked. one thousand
yards from the general boarding house is
the farm house OF Ben MuIzern, every
light of glass in which was broken, and
4,.,IN.-
ploslon occurred about ! 80 clock.
TEARING Up TIE GROUND
under the magazine to a depth OF ten
feet, twenty-five feet wide anti thirty
five feet long, twisting, wpenching and
tearing large trees ike pipe. stems, and
I'll Wg the ain with debris of every de-
scription, and not only killing one of the
laborers and hurting many others seri-
ouslv if not fatally, creating 2 panic
among the remainder of the employees
aud intense excitement in the neighbor-
hood. Charles Glecl, who was blown to
atoms, was nineteen years old, and came
from Charleston, w. Va, some months
ago. One Irishman, aged forty years,
name not known, had a cash three inches
long cut in his forehead. Another Irish
man had his shoulder dislocated. An
other man, unknown, had two ribs
broken and was terribly cut about the face
and body. One colored man whose name is
not known was injured internally and
carried away unconscious. Four others
We're cut about the head, face and body
aud others sustained injuries Miss
Munker McMann, housekeeper, received
TERRIBLE BLOWS
on the head, cutting Il good sized cash.
John Parrish, colored, had his foot
crushed. Mccain, one of the contrac-
tors, was blown over into a creek a dis
lance of about forty feet, and strange to
say, escaped with slight injuries. The
shock broke many windows in and around
Mt. Pleasant and Emerson and knocked
off considerable plastering The
explosion was no doubt caused
by Gleck 5 own carelessness.
Shortly before it occurred he was seen
breaking Il lock on the magazine door
and entered with n lighted pipe in his
mouth. Two boys who were with him
say he had taken them to see how the
dynamite worked, but ON noticing him
smoking they ran away and We're not |
over hundred yards distant when the
explosion occurred.