Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-07-16
TERRIBLE EXPLosIoN.
thirteen Hundred Kegs of Powder Ex-
plOded with Fatal Rasuvts

Thirteen Hundred Kegs of Powder Ex-
ploded, with Fatal Results.
CINCINNATI, July 15th.-A terrible explo-
sion occurred late this afternoon at the
Kings Powder Mills, on the Little Miami
Railroad, twenty-nine miles east of this
city. Ten persons were killed and thirty
or forty more or less seriously injured.
Two empty freight cars were being rolled
onto the side-track where car containing
500 kegs of powder was standing. As the
cars struck there was an explosion, and
Immediately after a car containing 500
kegs OF gunpowder exploded, making 300
kegs.
William Frauly, brakeman, was stand
ing on one of the empty cars when the ex-
plosion occurred. No trace of his body
has been found. Five other persons, sup
posed to be employees of the powder COM
pany, were killed.
The Kings Powder Company and the
Peters Cartridge Works have buildings on
both sides of the river along the railroad
The explosion occurred on the south side
and the destruction was enormous. There
were also number of cottages, occupied
by workmen of the powder company, situ-
ated close to the track. These were shat
tered by the explosion, and the inmates
injured. Twelve or fifteen girls at work in
the cartridge factory were crippled by the
explosion.
The railway freisht-house, belonging to
the Little Miami Railroad, together with
all the adjacent buildings, were set on fire
and totally consumed. The tracks and ties
of the RAILROAD are torn up and great hole
plowed in the ground The Peters Cart
ridge Factory was burned to the ground
and nothing but mass of blackened,
smoldering ruins remain to mark the spot
where the building was. As soon as the
news reached this city relief train was
dispatched to the scene of the disaster, with
Superintendent Peters and large party of
surgeons, and relief was afforded the suf-
ferers as soon as possible. The work of
searching for the missing and caring for the
wounded is progressing.
The force of the explosion demolished
all the wires in the vicinity, and it was i'm
possible to get any news from there until
midnight, when the delayed Panhandle
train arrived. Even then the passengers
could not say much, as everything about
Kings Mill was in too demoralized condi-
tion when they left to learn much about
the actual state of affairs
They described the scene in the vicinity
of the explosion as awful Fences. trees
and buildings for hundreds of feet in all d.
rections from the explosion were wrecked.
The Peters Cartridge Factory was liter
ally demolished by the explosion and the
fire from its combustible contents com.
pleted the work of destruction.
About thirty girls are thought to have
been at work in the factory at the time OF
the explosion and most of them are thought
10 be badly hurt
A passenger who arrived on the train saws
that ten persons were killed and that it is
possible that more bodies are in the debris.
An incident related by him was that
eight or ten girls in the cartridge factory
saved themselves from the flames by
catching hold of rope that happened to
hang from the house to the ground and
sliding down. His story is that more than
ten we're killed.
LATEST INFORMATION.
A. MA messenger of the Adams Ex-
press Company has just arrived from the
scene. He says that when he passed Kings
Mill Station, at IL P NJ, it was as bright as
day all around. Everything combustible
was burning, and the people everywhere
for great distance around were fighting
the fire.
The Conductor on the Little Lima road
has information that there were three fam
lilies living in the cottages near the place of
the explosion, and that six hours of dill
gent search had failed to find any trace of
them. He said, furthermore. that all was
in confusion there, and such a thing as
ascertaining the names was next to impos.
sible.