Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-07-18
At Least Ten People Have Been
Killed and a Large Num-
Der Injured.
The Story of al Eye Witness
Who Viewed the Scene
From o Distance.
The N. p. Gains Title to q Section
of Land in the Heart
of Spokane.
At Least Ten Victims.

CINCINNATI, July 16.-The following
is the liz. of killed in she explosion at
Kings mills, in this city: Mrs. James
Deacon, Henry Reynolds, Sam Stevens.
Mrs. Jim Moss and child, Mrs. Fred
Keller and child, William Franey, brake
man, Ralph Williams, Baby Elstine, Y.
Snider and an unknown man. The fol-
lowing are the injured: Lode Pehr,
aged ID, employed in the shell factory,
lost an arm; Ernest Collins, skull
q, crushed, will die; Mrs. John Schneider,
scalp wound; Fred Keller, night watch
man, severely scalded about the body;
John Mag, bruised about the face, will
lose both eyes; Mrs. Ben Dowdell, Sc
verely burned and internal injuries,
she will not live; Operator Hunt, scalp
wound; Harry Smith, Frank Hunt, Miss
Annie Schneider, Miss Gillian, Miss
Maggie Hutchinson and sister. Mr.
Joseph Proctor, a resident of Columbus,
arrived in the city on a delayed Penn
sylvania train at midnight. He was an
eye witness to the terrible affair and gave
a very vivid account of the explosion.
PRocToR's STORY.
II was visiting a friend near Kings
Mills and during the afternoon saunt-
cred up the road to the cartridge factory.
I inspected it thoroughly and chatted
with some Of the workmen FOR quite a
while. When the freight train came
along I started towards my friends
house, which overlooks the works. On
reaching the top of the hill I turned
around, just as the freight train was
making a running switch to side track.
I saw a brakeman on the cars as they
shot on to the side track and he was
waving his hand to some one. I saw
two cars bump against what I supposed
was an empty car on the side track. In
stantly there was a rumbling noise, and
then the very ground beneath me seemed
to open. I saw a puff of smoke, followed
q second later by another and the cars
disappeared. The section and powder
houses and a dwelling house
seemed to follow, and the work
of destruction had only just commenced.
It all occurred quicker than I can relate
it. Then came a dense volume of steam
and smoke pouring out from
the doors and windows Of
the cartridge factory, and I saw men,
women and children tearing at each 9th
o. in their frantic endeavors to escape.
The explosion and fire at the cartridge
house seemed to be simultaneous. The
building did not catch on fire in the or
binary way, but the flame seemed to pen
citrate the doors aud windows from all
sides. A number of women came out,
but 1 am certain they persisted in the
flames: A dwelling house below the
cartridge house was blown from the
foundation and dashed to the ground.
In this building a mother and child lost
their lives. l managed to make my way
to the scene and others who were in the
neighborhood we're also gathering. The
scene was one of the awfllcst I ever wit
messed. The railroad tracks we're
the telegraph poles and wires were
burned like SO much finder. A car
load Of coal about sixty feet distant
caught fire and burned up. We got to
work as DOR as possible and got fully a
dozen men and women from the powder
house. There was not one but was in
jured or bruised. They seemed to be
oblivious of the surroundings and I don't
think they realized what had occurred.
Some were burned and others cut and
bruised by the force of the explosion.
To add to the terrible scene there was a
constant swapping of cartridges and the
rescuers we're in danger of being killed
at any time. I don't know how many
were killed, but I am of the opinion that
ten at least lost their lives. The wound
ed will be double that number" .