The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-08-10
THE POWDER EXPLODED
ONE KILLED OUTRIGHT IND ONE
INJURED Ar SAVIN ROCK.

Avenue Railroad Company be Prohibited
from Making Fire Works at savin Rock
Awful Sight After the Explosion Com
pany to Care for the Remains.
Another fatal powder explosion claim
ed victim yesterday morning and in
jured another at Savin Rock. Philip
Paralo was killed and Clifford Hunting
injured. As nobody was watching the
man whose seeming careessness was
the cause of It, the coroner will proba-
bly, be compelled to hold an inquest in
order to fix the responsibility.
Paralo was employed by the Win
chester avenue railroad company in
the manufacture of fireworks and was
tamping what is called "flower-pot"
In a cast-iron mortar with a wooden
pestle. 1t is supposed that some for
elgn substance, a flint or match per-
maps, fell into the mortar and caused
II to explode, throwing the unfortunate
man ten feet into the air and tearing
his body apart as though he had been
drawn between two horses.
When he landed on the ground he
was a solid blaze of fire. His eyes
We're blown entirely out of his head.
His right hand was nearly severed
from the arm, and the fingers of his
left hand were blown away. The pes
tie with which he was tamping the
powder was broken into two pieces and
one of them was buried in the man 8
| chest. 1t was imbedded about three
inches and the blood suprted from the
chest cavity.
The internal organs were exposed
and blackened with the powder.
Though it seems impossible that he
should live an instant after he was
struck, yet there were signs Of life for
| twenty minutes.
| About five hundred feet away in an
other part of the grounds the Stewards
and the Grove baseball nine were en-
gagged in a practice game. A piece of
the iron hoop which was around the
''foWer-pot'' was driven with the
force of bullet and 1t went through
the right leg of Clifford Hunting, the
first baseman. 1t caused a compound
fracture. He was taken to the hospi-
tai and the leg may have to be ampu-
| lated Hunting is thirty-four years of
| age, single, and resides in Cambridge
port Mass, with his relatives He
was taken to the New Haven hospital
| in the ambulance.
| 1t was at first feared that it would be
necessary to amputate the leg, but as
no signs of blood poisoning were evil
dent by last night the hospital physi-
y, =
pc saved. Hunting was resting COM
fortably and doing we'll last night.
Inc explosion occurred at 9:25 O'clock
and was heard for at least two miles
IN all directions. Not more than fifteen
feet from the spot where Paralo was at
work over hundred pounds of black
powder and large quantity of prepar-
ed fireworks were stored in thin wood
en- shed, and it is merely miracle that
this did not explode also.
When the coroner had viewed Para
los remains and the scene of the catas-
trophe he said:
Here now is 100 pounds of powder in
a himsy building, and it is decidedly
unsafe Almost any day an accident
might set it off and cause a frightful
catastrophe. The powder used like this
ought to be kept underground or any
way In much safer place than that.
The wonder is that it hasn't gone sky
ward long ago. 1t certainly is piece
of carelessness to have the powder kept
in such condition.
Coroner Mix said that the law of the
state of Connecticut provides that no
person shall keep over fifty pounds of
powder at once in any place Where
more than that amount is kept the Sc
lectmen of the town must designate a
safe place where such powder is kept.
He was unable to find any of the select
men of Orange yesterday in order to
ascertain if they had designated any
such place in that town. In consulting
with the town clerk that official said
that he was not aware that any such
place had been designated in accord
ance with the law If this is the case,
and the selectmen have not designated
any place, it would render the railroad
liable for any damages that might
result if they were in charge of the
work
He said last night that he would rec
ommend that the company be prohibit
ed from compromising fireworks on the
ball ground
Dominic Delphino is in charge of the
companys fireworks factory. He and
Paralo have been making fireworks
there for three years The establish
ment consists of a small frame house
in the northeast corner of the baseball
grounds and Immediately inside of the
fence, and close enough to the waiting
depots to be a source of danger to the
people who are nearly always waiting
for cars
The Waterbury American says that
Professor Hunting, the injured man
above alluded to, is we'll known in Wa
terbury. He passed nearly year there
with his monograph giving exhibit
tions in the lodge rooms of the differ
ent fraternal orders, and in other
places. He left many warm friends
there. who will regret to hear of his
misfortune.
Up to this time there have never been
any accidents. All the fireworks used
by the company in entertaining the
crowds which go to the Rock and many
displays for outside exhibits have been
made in this establishment. The work
has been growing of late, and Delphi
nos daughter was learning the business
to help her father out. They live at So
Myrtle street.
So far as Delphino knows, the dead
man had not a relative in the world,