The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-04-12
AN EXPLOSION.
.0.,or Mon Killed in a Fireworks Factory.
r,Y OTHERS FATALLY INJURED.
r,,mes spread to Adjoining Buildings Two Men Crushed While Repair ing an Elevator-One May
 Recover.

prrrrsr,-RG, Va, April 0.-Fully fif- mon were killed and half as many 'nor, wounded by an explosion of pow in the fireworks factory of Romaine T.,s T,, in this city Saturday afternoon. i,s, nrior to the explosion Charles N. pamaine the senior member of the s.,,. NIr. John Bland, the senior mem- h,rof the tobacco firm of Bland Bros. Wright; Capt J. Tosh, a prominent s;,;zsn and Charles Bland, of the firm ofGIaud Bros, were engaged in con- r,rsotion in the office of the fireworks ,,mnanv. Fire was discovered in an ontbuilding, and these gentlemen went to the assistance of the employees and tried to extinguish it by throwing buckets of water on it.
 An alarm had been turned in and inst as Chief Engineer Farley of the srs department turned into the yard ,ba explosion occurred. Messrs John Bland and Charles Romaine were killed ;rstantlv and their bodies horribly uanrled. Both are members of the ctv council. Chief Engineer Farley was fatally injured and died in two bours. Capt. Tosh's body was burned bevond recognition. The other dead are, Robert Roland, James Roland, James Perkins, William Tyler, John T. Harris, R. Graves and five others not identified.
 Among the wounded are: Charles Short. John Wells and several Italians who will probably die, and whose names cannot be ascertained. The loss by fire will reach S1O0, 900.
 About fifteen minutes after the first explosion there was a second. These explosions were heard for over mile, The fire originated in the building, where powder for whistle bombs was made The flames were soon commun- icated to the other buildings used for making fireworks, and there were ire oucnt small explosions, It was re- ported that large quantity of pow der was stored, exactly where no one appeared to know, in these buildings and kept the crowd from venturing too near the fire.
 On the opposite side of the street from the fireworks building, all of which were frame structures, was the trunk factory of Messrs. Romaiue Bros, and close by were the large brick to- baccO factory of Bland Bros. & Wright and the old whisky distillery, now un- used. All these buildings, with stock and machinery, were burned to the ground. as was also large stock of lumber.
 CRUSHED BY AN ELEVATOR
 CmCAGo, April Crank Kennedy was crushed to death and Frederick Koenig, perhaps, fatally injured, be- heath the elevator in the Columbus Cloak Co.'S store Sunday The men were making some repairs to the eleva tor. They had been working half an hour when they were startled by see. ing the elevator cable in motion. They looked up and saw the cage coming down upon them. Before they could move the cage had cut off all means of escape. Both Kennedy and Koenig shouted for help, and then both were crushed by the heavy cage which set tied down upon them.
 The mems cries were heard by other men in the building, who ran to their rescue. The heavy elevator was quick. ly raised from the bodies of the unfor- tunate men. Kennedy was dead and KOenig unconscious. Koenig was ter. ribly crushed about the breast, shoul. ders and legs, and in precarious con- dition. The attending physicians have hopes, however, of his recovery. How the elevator started on it's downward course is unknown, as there was no one but the unfortunate men abou the shaft Both were married.