The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-09-20
HUNDREDS WERE SLAIN.
AN AWFUL CArAsrRopHE CAUSED
nv DYNAMITE.

AN AWFUL CArAsTROpHE CAUSED
BY DYNAMITE.
A Cartridge Factory ut Antwerp Explode~.
KILLING 500 People and liJurinE LOCO
Others-Resulting Fire Destroys Millions
OF Property-Awfhl Scenes I'm the Stricken
City
An Antwerp dispatch says: Three hundred
people were killed and about IL ooinjurcd, u.aav
fatally, by the exrloLion'o OF a large quantity Of
dynamite in the Carxilain fac .ory.. The .ac-
tory was located Immediately adjoining several
large petroleum warehouses;, in which wcro
stored $1,000 barrels of oil. These warehouses
were set OH fire. anl In less than an
hour an area OF about two acres was In
flames, the loss being estimated ut many mil.
lions. Tn factory was located in the Vicinity
OF the Boursc, which at the time of the cxplO-
sion was crowded. Burning fragments OF tho
=. factory We're hurled against tho lsoursu, setting
= It on fire and creating u panic among the mem.
bcrs, several of whom were Injured. Many per-
sons in and near the building wore also badly
wounded.
The scenes at tho hospitals where the
wounded Mn,u have been conveyed were heartrenliny.
The wind being favorable. Tho explosions ut
the burning cartridge factory and the flying
shells rendered the work Of tho fircmen aud sol
ell recently condemned the factory us thlngcr-
o o11ow. np - Tor crr some unsxr,ained reason ns,,s IL VAS
l uliOWSu COItluuo operations. inc victims
arc mostly factory girls. Windows were sh-
IL the minsipal hospital Of tho city, where
women and girls We're taken, the scenes Wit
messed were OF the most horrible description.
work eyer since the wounded began to arrive.
and many professional men hive gone from
neighboriiS cities and towns. The terrible
spread devnsta. ion was shown by tho fact that
many of tho wounded We're almost stripped Of
minus arms or legs, probably. u majority OF tho
blinded. Nearly ail We're covered with blood.
and even the hospital attendants, accustomed
as they are to scenes of suffering, were, iii mnny
cases, rendered too nervous and excited by the
i n",liG .1m. appe u OF !iie patients to shrm
In the children's ward of the hospital row
upon row OF cots is filled with little gu tfcrcrs
them having been hurt while playing in tho
streets adjoining the factory when the explo-
sion occurred. Resides these many boys and
girls were employed in the place, and nearly
every one of them is now III the hospital. When
the terrible crash came, no one seems to know
md in the mad rush many women and children
werc knocked down and trampled upon. This
In learned from the survivors.
When the oil barrels in the warehouses began
TO eNl'lOde sliipowleis became alarmed lest tho
OIL should flow into the water alongside their
10 aii in moving the shipping beyond danger Ii
In u short time, however, the fumes in tho oil
WAREHOUSES became of such terrifying. extent,
and the smoke 80 stilingly dense, that tho
laborers refused TO do any more work, and
left tho docks in fright. This operated to
s ai,om ! ioi Ia.ili in a, tho i.t ,1as sai ls;sSt. ma ~ t, Of
cause IL due tho fact that IL number of
vessels were burned, the officers and the few
tho ships to places of safety. The vessels lost
We're all of tho smaller class. In the case Of
large steamers md sailing vessels the COM
panics offered md paid i'll advance exlrayasrlt
sums for help in removing them. 1t was even
found necessary to cali for police aid to prevent
seaincn from deserving their vessels when
there was no immediate danger from the fire.
While the flames We're ut their height. tho
city autliorities received that gangs
OF thieves aud highwnymen, taking advantage
nt the concentration of police in tho vicinity OF
tne g:eat blaze. We're overrunning the moro
pie We're sarroted ON the streets, the robbers
also entering many houses and demanding
money and yalunbles from the inmntes, who
cured in some instances. When these facts
were reported, mounted police We're dispatched
arrested nearly fifty of tho murauders, recover
ing a great denl of plumber.
The spectacle was awfully superb and there
pared to 1t save the scene which Paris presented
during the last days of the commune aud tho
s sisss ons in IN s the eity. I Wsra tiGs sIsei I'd m in al
from 10000 to 5000 barrels of petroleum arc
stored were burned; aS We're several of the Yes
down the River Schelit, which in a short time
looked like a stream of fire,
The whole OF the garrison and n large part of
tho male population of the town nidei the fire.
meli, but their efforts were simply useless.
The c%nrtrilge factory belonged to NJ. Carvi-
40.OOOl,OO0 old cartridges, intending; to sell tho
powder. Ills workpcople moro tfan hall Of
them being women-were occupied in the task
OF opening these cartridges when the explosion
took place. To what it WIS due there is very
little hope OF discovering, for not ono of NJ. Car
Villain employees hns us yet been found alive.
IN IuCt, not u single cOrDSp Inns lTnN fnf,Ni In.
tact.
When NJ. Cnrvilain sought permission to erect
ms cartridge Mnilinctory the city authorities
opposed him might ,tld min. The provincial
council. however. were less fnrsceiig. aud a.
corded NJ. Cnrvflnin the authorization he asked
for. The disilstcr' is really the outcome of 20
litical hickcrims between The town council and
the l!oyiitfnl council. The IL rincr il liberal
and the In I i eiefienl. Tho In srl atud per-
mission L." ~. C:irvilain to Ia, II. e his powder
factory III s.;cli IL numerous place Only To nancy
the Town tnn,cil. Ii ciscl sure cnuso,I IN,
tense iitis ii ion.
IT WI, let II iltlie a,n Sc, aud darinsxif.M
on the.i y llsl thu t,'ribls OK .lt o tie fro
lowered TO IA Immense Il, i.if. sj.,io0 la.iuls of
petroleum heinz II fire. a. once til. Ii II. from
tno enormous ni;,-' %,s SO iNtne ia the
1OO yards.
I'll. shock If the >plo. ion la Tho same If
feet ON tn nusy 81. y as would III onriliuuuN..
swimming with men, women aud children, tsr-
ror-stri,leh md nixiousiy inIuirins OF olcll
o.i!er VIA ii'td happened. AS = o as llle Ill.,
tlre OF tile dtsnstcr bedn:nckLOAn tlu %,.utlOri.
ties ordered de.rclMnenis of troops to The
scene. and with their aid tho thousands
Of excited people wero'liep u IL distance from
the wrecked building. lile f.eimcn had reached
the l'lnce ind were about to begin the work OF
eXtinguishing the blazing ruins when 1T v rs
discovered ilntt The ncislii'oring oil warehouses
the dehse crowd, t Cling them of tle new and
terrible dahger. The people wc.c soon removed
to ~ safe distance, by which Time huge flashes
u fire We're lcnping into the air us lil,rel nfter
barrel OF oil exploded and poured out into the
various yards.
Baked in u Pie.
You all know the old "Sing n Song
of S~ix-pence.' Have you even read