The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-22
II WAS DEATH 10 SEVEN
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only one pound of powder snail pc placed in the machines at one time. This powder Is brought from the pow der house about 200 feet distant by powder boys, as it is required to re- plenish the machines, and the rule Is that no powder shall be kept ln the loading room except what Is already ln the machine
 While the company planes no one for carelessness in having caused the explosion, it is very probable, and from the force of the explosion, Is undoubt- edly true, that more than one pound of powder prescribed by the rules was placed in the machine. The heavy fun nels are placed over each machine for the purpose of oonfining the force Of any explosion which may occur, and the tunnels have worked very success fully to this end in explosions which
 have occurred before in the machines when only the required pound Of pow
 der was used, no serious accidents
 having resulted from previous explo- sions in the machines during the tWen-
 ty years that they have been used by
 the company.
 The building in which the explosion
 occurred is a wooden structure. The force Of the explosion blew out about
 twenty-five feet of the wall on the south side of the building and just back of
 the machine that exploded, while a considerable portion of the wall on the
 opposite side was torn out and the
 boards were hurled through the tight
 board fence which separates the build
 Ing from the sidewalk along Winches-
 ter avenue. Nearly every window in the building was broken to pieces aud
 portions of the glass were hurled over
 into Winchester avenue.
 The loading department was shut down, and will not be started before to- morrow at least. The remainder of the
 works was kept running yesterday af-
 ternoon and no delay will be occasion
 ed in the work outside of the loading
 shop.
 After the bodies of those killed had
 been removed workmen immediately
 began clearing away the debris. The fence on the Winchester avenue side
 was boarded up to keep the crowd out, and by 3 o'clock order had been brought
 out of the chaotic state of affairs which
 prevailed in the shop after the explo-
 sion. At that time there was no evil dence apparent from the outside that anything unusual had occurred beyond a few broken boards in the wall, visi- ble from the street Inside the yard, however, and just back of the building where thesaccident occurred were heaps of broken machinery, pipes and other debris, and force of carpenters was at work preparing a place to set up g. n mo aI,i ha eli If tho which exploded.
 The funnel of the demolished machine 1 lay in the yard It was constructed of half inch steel which had been torn I by the explosion like paper. The metal which in the funnel is bent into cylin- drical shape was torn around the en- tire funnel and the lower portion was l fattened out like a steel plate. One small piece of metal about as large as I the hand was hurled with terrific force | through the side of nearby wooden building. making a large ragged hole. l One of the first of the firemen to ar rive on the scene after the explosion was Fire Marshal Hubbard. He enter | ed the smoke filled rooms where men and girls were rushing about in terror, | the girls shrieking and the men hor- l TOT stricken, and noticed blaze on the | floor In a small pile of what appeared | to be broken wood and other material | He drew closer to the burning object l and what was his horror to discover that it was the dress of one of the vic- tims on fire. It was Ida Brown, and as l the marshal pulled the broken scraps 1 from the body he saw that the head l was torn completely off. He quickly put out the flames and the body was 1 removed.
 | One of the victims of the terrible af- I fair was Josephine Brennan, sixteen year old girl and an orphan, who lived with her grandmother, Mrs. Della Boyle i at 34 George street. She was a beauti- ful girl and was the belle of the shop. | Her grandmother was heartbroken | when the news of the tragedy was | brought to her. The dead girl had
 worked at the factory for about two years.
 | Julius Bormans was sixteen years of
 age and resided with his parents at SS
 George street. His father Is Julius Bor-
 mans. The boys mother was prostrat- ed when news of the accident was
 brought to her and tainted She re-
 mained in a swoon the greater part of l the afternoon.
 Ida Brown lived at 147 Ashmun street.
 She came to this city from Detroit, 1 Mich, not long ago. She was married i but did not live with her husband. | Walter J. Hill was twenty years of age and lived with his parents, MT. and Mrs. Nathan D. Hill, at 52 Hazel l street. He had worked in the factory
 about four years l Theresa Connolly, whose body was l the most badly mutilated of all those l killed, was sixteen years of age She | lived at 190 Willow street. Her father
 is Patrick Connolly, who also works at Winchester's.
 1 Mrs. Baumeister was sixteen years of 1 age and was married only about d
 month ago. Her husband worked on | the machine next to hers and was un- injured, beyond a, few bruises, made by his being thrown to the floor The 1 couple lived with an uncle of the hus-
 bands on Dixwell avenue in Hamden Just before leaving the city for his summerhome on the shore last evening, | T. G. Bennett, president of the Win chester company, gave out the follow ing statement in regard to the explo- sion:
 | Tt is impossible to say at this time what was the cause of this terrible ac- l cident and fha eyact oousa nov povor