Morning journal and courier., 1890-10-08
NEWS BY TELE6RlPH. l: 5; | From All Quarters. TEN PERSONS KILLED. Powder Mills at Dupont
 Blown to Atoms. THE PRESIDENTS WESTERN TRIP. Another Revolt in the Argen-
 tine Republic. DOUBLE MURDER IN NORTH CAROLINA Capture of the Notorious
 Rube Burrows.
DOUBLE MURDER IN NORTHcARoLINA
TERRIBLE EXPLOSIONS.

The Immense Dupont Powder Mills
 Blown to Atoms-At Least Ten Peo-
 pie Killed and Many Injured-Seven
 Successive Explosions-F1fty Houses
 Damaged-Glass Broken by the Con.
 cussiOn Five Miles Away.
 WILMINGTON, Del, Oct. 7.-The Dupont powder works on the Brandywine, about three miles from here, blew up this after noon, killing at least ten persons andinjur ing a number more. The whole section of the works known as the esUpper Yard" is complete wreck. One of the maga- zines went off first and the rolling and drying mills near by, set off by the con- cussion, followed in rapid succession. There were at least seven distinct success sive explosions. Every dwelling in the neighborhood is wrecked or unroofed and buildings within radius of half mile are more or less damaged.
 Following is partial list of the killed: Martin Dolan, James Dolan, William Mo- Garvey, John Hartigan, William Denni- son, John Dietz, Thomas Hurlike, Patrick Dougherty, William Green, John Hurlike John Newell and woman named Rose Dougherty. Several others are missing
 The more seriously injured, so far as learned, are: Daniel Harkins, William Logan twill probably die); Annie and Mary Dolan, daughters of James Dolan; James Ward, leg broken and internally hurt; Hugh Ferris, picked up unconscious, injuries unknown; John McDowell, head badly hurt; Mrs. William McDowell, ear cut off and head badly hurt; her two year-old daughter, seriously injured; Lydia Anderson, arm broken and badly bruised. The Dupont powder mills extend along the Brandywine, chiefly on the west bank and close to the water, for about two miles. They are divided into the "Up- per-" "Highley" and Lower" yards. The first is some three miles and the last five miles from Wilmington. At the Upper was the office and business head quarters of the company.
 At the "Upper Yard" are some fifty houses which were inhabited by the em- ployes, and they all were wrecked. The force of the concussion even broke win dows in some parts of Wilmington, four or five miles away. The office of the Dupont company is complete wreck and six mills are in ruins. Several members of the Du- pont firm were injured by falling walls and broken glass, but none of them seriously. Among the slightly injured are: Eugene Dupont, the head of the firm; Francis G. Dupont and Charles I. Dupont. They and several clerks in the office were cut by fragments of broken glass, but none of them seriously.
 The dead were all employees of the com | pany. Several workmen are missing and are believed to have been blown into frag | ments The wounded received their in 1 juries among the walls of their falling houses and by broken glass and flying debris.
 l Had there not been a general and in stant exodus from their houses at the frs shock the death list would have been heav fer, as many would have been crushed il the ruins of the dwellings. The first ex plosion occurred in one of the packing ! was receiving a can of hexagonal powde to be shipped for the use of the United States government
 In some way a spark communicated t, the can and it blew up. Instantly tn packing mill blew up and the other mill in the upper yards, seven or eight il number, followed at intervals of less thai
 one second. All these except one wer
 trolling mills," in which the ingredients o gunpowder are pulverized by the action o
 vertical rollers of stone turning slovl
 around central post. The whole ma
 chinery is driven by water power. Tn
 odd one was mixing mill" Immedi ately after the explosion large buildin , 1 known as the "refnery," located near tn center of the village, took fire. It was ! matter of life and death to the whole popu ) lation that this fire should be extinguishe
 before it communicated with the powde ,, the building contained. Taking their live in their hands the Dupont fl, brigade fought the flames which Ina caught the roof. It was touch and go b. tween success and destruction; but th firemen won. Had the roof fallen in it K doubtful if any man, woman or child 1 the vicinity would have escaped death ( serious injury. About fifty families al 3 rendered homeless by the disaster. I'll a injured are being gathered into the ho Q pital building appertaining to the work 9 and are receiving such surgical and oth' h aid as they need. There will be no mol
 chance of getting news tonight, and,
 fact, owing to the rocky and wooded cha
 acter of the locality, but little can be dol
 in searching for the missing or ascertai
 ing the extent of the damage done to pro
 erty until daylight.
 It is estimated that the loss will req,
 $500, 900 and that fully ten tons of powd
 were exploded. The scene in and abo
 the mills is one of startling deyastatio
 The bodies of but few of the killed ha
 been SO far recovered.