The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-01-19
Two Probably Fatally Injured and Others Less
Seriously Hurt-NOise Of the Explosion
Heard Twenty Five Miles Away.
Eight Persons Seriously Wounded By q
Railway Accident in Arkansas,
And Eight More Hurt BY o Northwestern 4
Omaha Sleeper Rolling Into q Ditch Near
River Falls-A Disastrous Sleigh Ride.
FIVE MEN ArANGLED.
Powder-Mills I'm West Virginia Blown Up
and the Workmen Killed.

Powder-NfiIls I'm West Virginia Blown Up
and the Workmen Killed.
CINCINNATI. Jan. 16-Specials from the
cities near Ceredo, w. Va. tell the news Of
q terrific explosion of the Phenix powder
mills, destructive to life this morning. The
Phoenix mills are situated at Gen.
tral City, near Ceredo. and about
half way between Huntington. w. Va.
and Catlettsburg. KY. This is the third
explosion at this mill within three months,
and it is. by all odds. the most destructive
one The last one before this happened sizs
weeks ago. and was o trifiing affair.
at $50 o'clock this morning people In
Ironton, twenty-five miles away. heard q,
terrible detonatins roar. In Ceredo, threa
miles away, windows were broken
and wares in the stores were
shaken from the shelvea In Cat-l
lettsburg, nearly ten miles away. the.
earth shook and people were alarmed
Everybody OWNED the cause. and there
was q rush from all directions to the soene.
The local authorities organized and SUR
rounded tho ruins with Gordon of police
through which none of the thousands %
spectators was permitted to pasa
1t has been ascertained that the first exc
plosion was in the glazing mill. where
there wore ten tons of powder. Then, suc-
cessiv .he packing house, the magazine.
the lg-mIll and the four wheel mills.
and car loaded with gunpowdeT
wen ding in fragments through the air.
Not q vestige of the entire plant remains
and the country for half . mile around is
strewn with fragments Of the buildings
aud of the bodies of five men. victims OF
the disaster IL 10 not known definitely,
but at the present writing IL is believed
that not less than thirty-ive tons of pow<
der were burned in the several EXPLOSIONS.
The killed are:
ARCHIE LIVINGSTONE, O ecotchman, who
first started, blown to atoms Only his hand was
found and recognized.
ED WINTON, the architect and engineer, who
il exploded and. strange to say, his body was
very little mutilated.
JOHN BENT0R, workman; body horribly
JOHN sCHLossER ana CHARLES SCOTT,
workmen; both terribly mutilated.
All these are either known or supposed
to have been in tho buildings when the ex-
plosion occurred. The seriously injured arei
ROBERT COOK. q glazing-mi hand. He was
approaching the glazingmill when Il blew up.
His clothing and his hair and whiskers were
burned of. He ran two hundred yards 10 q
stream and jumped In win die.
REKCE EsTEP and JOHN JUSTICE. who hap
pened to be in the vicinity when the explosicn
occurred.
There are no doubt many slightly In
jured whose names have not been ascer-
tanned. Thirty men constituted the force
employed at the works. and even tonight
the confusion is such that il is uncertain
wbether the full liat of casn alti az has heeu
ascertained. In one of the buildings that
went up, in which there was four tons OF
powder. three men were working and all
three escaped with only trifling bruises,
The steam engine house was the only builds
ing not demolished. The loss of property
by the explosion was $4,000