Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-22
DEATHS HARVEST.
1t Goes Right Along with Awful
Persistence.
HORROR IN A CARTRIDGE FACTORY

Somebody ExpIodes Can of Powder and
the Result Is One Dead and Others Fa-
tally Hurt-some Sights at the Scene of
the Disaster-The Wall Of Street Car
Barn Blows Down and brushes Seven.
BLUE ISLAND, ILL.,, Aug. 22.-There was
terrific explosion in the Standard Cart
ridge factory yesterday afternoon in which
three laborers were killed and thirteen
others seriously wounded, three of whom
will die The explosion occurred in the
packing room, but what caused it no one
seems to know No one was about the
and those who were injured were working
in the engineers department. All the
machinery in the factory was destroyed,
and the windows of houses for blocks
around the building were broken. The
fatally injured were sent to Chicago on
the Rock Island train to be conveyed to
the county hospital. One of the injured
is reported to have died on the way to the
hospital
The Dead and Wounded.
Charles Il. Seidell, % years old, single,
was killed The injured are as follows:
+. b. Burke. face, hands, arms, and body
burned; Frank Laws, face, chest, and
limbs burned; George Wells, face and
hands burned; Alec Lamor, face burned;
Ida Wicks, leg badly burned; Mary Sephen,
chin and nose mangled; Annie Nc
Elbach, side burned and hair
scorched; Emma Schoup, arms burned;
Lena Schoup, face and hands burned;
Lena Roll face and arms burned; Eugene
Reinberger, face burned; Will Dorman,
face and hands badly burned; Joe Bassett,
c. Bremeister and Mark Barney faces
blistered
Terrible Scenes of Suffering.
When help came TO the uufortunates
girls were found lying half naked in the
mud and grass. and crying for some one
to relieve their sufTerings. Stripped of
their clothing, they We're blistered and
blackened and swollen till their most in
innate friends scarce knew them. OF the
twelve girls employed in the factory only
three escaped without injury. The re-
manning nine were removed to a farm
house half mile away, where they were
given medical attention, and afterwards
supplied with clothing and removed to
their homes. The ages of the girls ranged
Incidents OF the Disaster.
Ida Wick, aside from the terrible burns
she received, was crushed under piece
OF iron that fell out of n machine She
was engaged in packing aud labelling
cartridges not far from the machine that
exploded. Mark Barney. who WAS one of
the most terribly burned, was feeding
blank shells into the tube of the machine
that exploded. He was blown up in the
air by the explosion and fell in the fire.
There he lay, unable to extri-
cate himself from the twisted
rods until the smoke had partially
blown away and he was helped ont 10y his
brother His face, arms and body were
almost oked in places, and every par
ticle OF clothing he had on save his shoes
and stockings was burned off. Alexander
l4amor, whose injuries will probably
cause his death, was working at "a machine
just next to the one that was blown up.
Almost every portion of his body was
burned, and he WAS eashed about tie
abdomen. His wounds were burned and
blackened 10y the powder
The proprietors OF the factory say the
disaster was caused by the gross careless.
hess of one of he men in opening a can OF
powder with hammer and chisel