New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-25
NEWS FROM NEW.JERSEl.
PATERSON.
TWO MEN KILLED IN 4 POWDER MILL
AN EXPLOSION TEARS OFF THEIR CLoTlilN"
AND HURLS ONE OF THEN
Gong DISTANCE.

AN LAHLOSlON IiAiS' O4i iii4-'4N
AND muRLs ONE OF THEN
Gong DISTANCE
II. W. Minis. Paterson hardware merchant wh'
is selling agent FOR Latin AZ Rand poWder-maher' ~
cevcd a dispatch yesterday morning a'AlHH '''N'
co,oncr AN undertaken and two collins be sent 10
Mountain View village about FIVE miles west OF
Paterson wlci, the works Of the firm are situated
on al avcra-> about every two or three years tere
is an explosion these powder works ara >'neD'u'
Is generally Killed. that people IN Paterson NH'
heard Il the dispatch lad a general idea "i"' 'r'
trouble was Coroner GtJdrldgc ana county I'HN
elan Johnson started IoI the scene OF disaster.
They found superintendent Bliss, who .od them
that aboIt : O'Clock in the morning he was h ;hl
az zinc room. and, happening to look ont OF the VIII
dow. saw the cornug-mu burst INTO volcano "
fame and smoke with dun report When tir Ho''H
nall Of yapor lifted he saw the body Of John Fl-lhau-I
about siNty year, old. lying Oh tie ground near lie
wrecked building He was about 70 20 To - pro-
tIate man when he heard a cry further oil ana -"
Louis Harlcr a Young man of twcntv-o1", GT"pHr
MS way from a field Where he had been blown. ne
evidently could not Every sutch OF NJ '"'""S
Sas stripped OF and his body Wa charIcd ana '''N
l,d. l.4rier codld walk aud wac led I" the enFIc
room. wler. he said lie felt tired and Law down on
lie cement floor lie able 10 talk and tod 'i inc
explo,ion though he could nUt tell what caused H.
T. structure where the explosion occurred j. H'N
a. the corning mill. The powder /" sTShui'o" u'lo
BY iron rod T.. II arrive, In big damp cakes f'''
baugh wa, feeding TIE cakes into the ioiIeIo d"S
Harher lad jn,t entered with trsm~ay cAr loaded
with more cake. when the explosion came Aitei
uarlcr had tia tbs he suddenly expired, moh 70
The dl,may oil M comrades. Tor he did not appear I"
have been MORALLY bart.
Meanwhile F..ibaugh had been found corpse.
lie too had bccr entirely stripped OF clothing ana
terribly scorch'd. Inc pm tican decided mat 6ou'
men had died from siO'ii. and gave ceruhcat" lhe
explosion vas more like -Icat Sash Of loose powder
than A heavy. rendiug blast. and neither man Wa
mangcd The report no; loud and Wa not
heard any great distauc,. Tive couhglul cAu-H'
fir, and was burned up. The fame did not com
mnicate 10 any other builGug,. f,IGanfh lived III
Mountain View and leaves a widow ana several grow"
children IIarhcr was single aud Iy'd with h- people
| at Pompton Plains. Fi~Abauel- son. "h' u>'d ."
work in the mills with him, concluded That i' vas too
risky a calling and he lett and "ent 70 VOL" on .
! rlllroad where he was killed soon after
| August Dittlauf. who was ;aAlDg a baS " r'Iu
lated powder from tlp corning when the explosion
occurred was stripped Of us SHIRT By uc 81" a. h''
sustained minry and IN tact none Oh Gic 'r ~,
employed about the WORKS wa huIt cA'rPl 49,. 80"
| that Scre killed. and Tire only damoec ~ gop'iN
vas the los Of te con!nt " y i IT, .,cI ncrFc
OF the wOrES J. dUphtdir4 ID VIZ" "' H"'" ' No..
| Ce- and operations Will not De haupercI, one
rct'0n S'E varied iT experience ial pat mp 'r'nI
barbados If heavy timber ana s1lid A'-'.II p,,i
the different DlidlhoN. lhl'' D'l,''' a. 81 d. =
| Yin, r,,yaylz,d iron and painted. AZ the I-t
peyioi, explosion IN c,S ygr t t i,a NJ ,r
~ 80, f an ION Of the other corning mill ana Nil
wcnt Nd too althou n there was no p9"iT ID III rA
cent lie inc dust That haze p'I%altu u" 'i'N .,
IN, tl,t occasion trcc men were blown l" d'""' "''
| a.. ,i1rr- had TO STOP for ninety day.
| An excursion train TO- Naucl 'huln , 'i, "a ,,'.
! ON Tho Ieclgwanna rOad yesterday m0TilH- anu wa
Inst passing through Mountain we" Wn'H ,, Inc I
;in-idn occurred A man Who was on thc jam t..
,'Ind TncE TO Paterson that the pa "n-c,- -HN lr
mrlt Of flame and smote ad hncN ,'t ,, wv 'yrl,c
Cf On the train The Office Of the finn III Nc"-l OH
is al No. 20 Nurray-st