Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-01-19
From ALI Quarters.
WERE BLOWN TO ATOMS
Five Persons Killed by a
\ Powder Explosion.
DISTURBANCE IN A BOSTON PRISON.
Ba|maceda Refuses to be
Taken to Peru.
Many PEOPLE DROWNED IN RUSSIA,
Work of the Presbyterian
Revision Board.
Many PEOPLE DROWNED IN RUSSIA,
TERRIFIC EXPLOSIONS.

Havoc Wrought by an Accident at a
Powder Mill-Five Men Blown to
Pieces-The Country Shaken Up for
Miles-Several Houses Demolished
by Natural Gas Explosion.
CEREDo, W. Va. Jan. 18.-There was ter
rifo explosion this morning at the Phoenix
powder mills, situated at Central City. This
was the third explosion at this mill within
three months, and it was by all odds the
most destructive one. How the disaster
to-day was brought about will never be
known, for not soul that was in the mill
is alive. At $50 a. m. people in Ironton,
twenty-five miles away, heard terrible
roar. In Ceredo, three miles away, win
dows were broken and wares in the stores
were shaken from the shelves. In Catlet-
lettsburg, nearly ten miles away, the earth
shook and people were alarmed. Thou
sands of people rushed to the scene and
the authorities surrounded the ruins with
a Gordon of police. The explosion started
in the glazing mill, where there were ten
tons Of powder. Then successfully the
packing house, the magazine, the four
wheel mills and a carload of gunpowder
went hurting through the air. Not YES
tige of the entire plant remains, and the
country for half mile around is strswn
with fragments of the building apd of the
bodies of five men. It is believed that
thirty-five tons of powder were burned in
the several explosions. The following were
killed.
Archie Livingston, superintendent of the
mills since the very start, blown to atoms.
Only his hand was found.
Ed. Winton, the architect and engineer
who built the works, was in the magazine,
but his body was very little mutilated.
John Benton, John Schlosser and Charles
Scott, workmen, terribly mutilated.
All these were in the buildings. Robert
Cook, glazing mill hand, who was ap-
preaching the glazing mill, was MORALLY
injured. His clothing, hair and whiskers
were burned of. He ran 200 yards to a
stream and jumped in. K. o. Reece, James
Esteep and John Justice, who were in the
vicinity, were seriously injured. 1t is
said many others were slightly injured.
COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 18.-A terrific ex-
plosion of natural gas by which fine resi-
dence was destroyed, two churches par
TALLY demolished and about fifty houses
damaged, in which the family of Judge
John S. Brasze had marvellous escape
from f on death or serious inju-y, occurred about
was in his study down stairs in his resi-
dence, twenty-room brick structure in
the center of the town, when the explosion
occurred, while his family were in bed.
The house was levelled to the ground and
Judge Brasze was thrown about 100 feet to
the street, where he was afterward picked
up in dazed condition. Mrs. Brasze and
two daughters and two sons were in their
beds on the second floor. The sons were
hurled $50 feet into tho Lutheran
church yard, while the women were caught
by the falling roof. They were res
cued twenty minutes later in their night
clothes and were found to be all cut and
bruised. There were four servants who
escaped with only cuts and bruises. Re-
markable to relate none of the poor in the
house were even seriously injured. The
loss financially will be quite heavy.