The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1890-07-19
ANOTHER DISASTER.
This Time IL Is q Powder Mill
and Cartridge Factory
Explosion.
At Least Ten People Have Been
Killed and q Large Num-
Der Injured.
The Story Of an Eye Witness
Who Viewed the Scene
From q Distance.
At Least Ten Victims,

At Least Ton Victims.
CINCINNATI, July 16.-The following
is the list Of killed in the 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
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, &C.
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 tho city on q delayed Penn
sylvania train at midnight. He was an
eye witness to the terrible affair and gave
a very vivid account of the explosion.
PRocroR's STORY.
II was visiting a friend neal 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 Cor quites
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 al 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 l 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 dwelling house
seemed to follow, and the work
of destruction had only just commenced.
1t all occurred quicker than I can relate
it. Then came q 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
or 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 and windows from all
sides. A number of women came out,
but l am certain they persisted in the
flames. A dwelling house below the
cartridge house wa blown from the
foundation and dashed to the ground.
In this building q mother and child lost
their lives. I managed to make my way
to the Q and others who were in the
neighborhood were also gathering. The
scene was one of the awfulcst I ever WIT
messed. The railroad tracks were
torn like go much paper and
the telegraph poles and wires were
burned like 30 much finder. A car
load Of coal about sixty feet distant
caught fire and burned up. We got to
work al 800 as possible and got fully q
dozen men and women from the powder
house. There was not one but was in
jured or bruised. They seemed to be
oblivi0us 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 Q
constant swapping of cartridges and the
rescuers were 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.
The Number Killed Unknown.
CHICAGO, July ia frightful explo-
sion occurred tonight on the steamer
Tioga, one Of the largest vessels on the
great lakes. Thirty-eight people were
aboard the steamer at the time. When
the work of rescuing the survivors, which
commenced almost instantly, . well
under way, only two persons could be
found who escaped unhurt. Then To
make matters worse fire broke out on
the wrecked vessel, and huge volumes Of
flame and smoke impeded the search for
the dead and dying. The bursting Of
the steamers boilers was the cause Of
the catastrophe. II was in Chicago
river at the foot Of Washington street
that il occurred. Most of the Victims
were Chicagoans, stevedores who were
unloading the vessel Only three Of the
Tiogs's crew were reported
on the list. The fire proved
q stubborn one, and made il impos
mble to verify the report that
the boilers had exploded. Capt. A. A
Phelps of the TioGa says: III found after
a careful search that all but three were
accounted for and safe. Those thref