Evening journal., 1890-10-08
SCENE AT The WRECK.
Windows Broken, Houses Damaged and
Trees Uprooted Along the Road.

Windows Broken, Houses Damaged and
Trees Uprooted Along the Road.
Two reporters of the EVENING jour
NAL procured carriage this morning
and again went to the scene of the terri.
bic disaster. The road lay along the Ken.
nett pike leading to the Upper
Banks
The road is through the most charu..
ing part of the country hereabouts The
day was perfect and nature seemed to
smile over the recent destruction.
AS the party approached the scene of
the disaster signs of great dam
age began to be apparent. Here
and there were seen houses with.
out a whole pane of glass In them.
One of these house is that of Victor
Sterling, who keeps grocery store at
the corner of Kenneth Pike and the road
leading to the residence of Mrs Henry
Dupont. Every window in the front of
the store was broken out. Both frames
and glass were shattered
When the road was crossed and the
party started TO the scene, the signs of
destruction increased greatly. Mrs.
Henry @. DuPont's new house which Is
being erected was badly damaged. The
mortar was driven from between the
stones and the scaffolding was knocked
down. The greenhouses of the
farm Of the late Henry DUPONT,
were very badly damaged The roof
has been broken down and nearly every
pane of glass in the roof is broken. When
the barn is reached its appearance is as
If some person were endeavoring to have
it torn down very rapidly and had only
half succeeded. The roof is badly dam
csed and new barn will have to be
built In It's plaza
The reporters now dispensed with the
carriage and viewed the scene on foot.
One of the women who was in the acct
dent says of it, II was sitting In my
room on the first foor OF the house sew
Ing. Suddenly | heard the first shock
and then before had time to collect my
thoughts my house was tumbling about
me / thought the end of the world had
come Just as the walls fell | ran to
the door and was Just about to 60 out
side when the porch fell down, and had
stepped out | would have fallen beneath
1t. could see nothing outside, as the
smoke from the powder mill OBJ
scured everything. 1t seemed SIS
if the darkest night had suddenly
fallen. When the porch fell
Lesrd screams coming from the other
houses nearabout, but had not time to
see If they were seriously hurt, as the
wall struck me in falling and injured me
very badly. In fact there is not a single
person in whole place who escaped
entirely uninjured We think here that
if person escapes with his life that is
all that is needed and slight bruises are
not to be minded We cannot think of
our own injuries as we have to attend to
those of others" When asked If she
thought the houses would be rebuilt she
said, These houses will not be rebuilt,
but others will be erected. l pity the
people who have no friends as they will
surely starye this winter as there are no
houses to go to and nothing ia eat"
The poor people are taking their goods
to the houses of neighbors who are so
fortunate as to have a roof over their
heads and they are heartily welcomed to
Ibis poor shelter.
Francis DuPont's Bravery.
Francis Dupont. or Mister Frank, as
he is known all over Brandywine hun.
dred, worked like a beaver yesterday
in removing the poor, distressed
people to places Of safety and shelter.
Even before tie fire had been extin-
guished in the burning mills
hs was on the ground with other
members Of the Dupont family,
removing the men, women and children
away from the dangerous place He had
wagons brought TO the place
to convey their household goods away
from the fetal spot He had carriages
to take the wounded people to their
homes and to remove the dead and have
them prepared for burial.
Stealing sporting Powder
Several hundred canisters Of sporting
pow der are stored in small building in
the upper yards Two boys were in this
building at the time of the explosion,
but the shock passed around 1t completely
and did not loosen shingle,
although buildings only few feet dis
tant from it were torn to pieces. After
dark last night this building was broken
INTO by thieves and fully one fourth Of
the powder was carried away.