The evening Republican., 1902-08-21

ware Pulp Mills explosion reached
ten this morning, with four missing
and several injured.
| DEAD
! John Mccormick. OF 900 Reed
street, employe Of the wash room.
| William L. Burke, married, of No
400 South franklin street.
Granville Walters, chemist in the
alsali room, married, ONO. 90S Elm
street.
James B. Stokes, married, Of No.
403 South Jackson street. employe in
the wash room, died in Homeopathic
Hospital.
Franklin T. Harris. OF No. 1920
Maryla avenue, employe in the
aIkali room.
GeorgeW. Wright. married, o!
No 902 Chestnut street, employe in
the wash room.
Joseph Laubacher. Of No. 21S
Fifth avenue employe 10 the chip
ping department.
Joseph e. Henry, No 43l South
Jackson street. fireman In tho d.
| gcster room.
Joseph Nagle, married. No. 800
Bennett street, employe In the wash
room.
kacharlah Collins, colored married
of NJ. 1905 Pine street, coal wheeler
in the digester room.
MISSING AND SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD
i. iP. Mousley, married, of No. 226
Parrish street, employe in the was
room.
Bernard Sweeney, Of No. 2l2
Maryland avenue, cmploye In the
digesLer room.
William Scott married, No. 100
Cedar street, fireman in the adigester
room.
Joel Hutton, fireman in dlgester
department. residence unknown.
INJURED
Thomas Reeves, of No 22O Jeffer.
son street;skull fractured in two
places.
John Collins, of No. 7 Broome
street, burned and inhaled flames,
and in critical condition at the
Homeopathic Hospital.
James Jester, of No. 3l4 Fifth
avenue, critically burned. He is ia
the Delaware Hospital. and is not ex.
peclcd to recover.
John Durham, residence unknown,
critically burned, and Is at the HON
eopathic Hospital, and not expected
to recover.
The cause of the death dealing
explosion will never be known as the
men nearest them are among the dead |
1t is thought however, that the di.
Sestion OF too much steam in the d.
gcs,ers may have been the cause.
About eighteen workmen were EN-.
ployed in the departments contain.
ing the digesters, and to assist in the
process OF washing, after the boiling
is completed, and also to prepare and
chip wood to be fed into the digest.
crs These eighteen were either in.
jured, killed, or among the missing,
for they were caught like rats in a
trap.
Two sharp reports were heard by
the worknen at two o'clock and then
a huge black mass was seen to shoot
upward directly over the mill 10
which the digesters were stored.
Persons who beheld 1t said the
mass continued skyward until it ap-
pearcd to be about the size of q bar.
rel. Then it began to descend, twist.
ing and cavorting until it buried it.
self into the earth about $50 feet a.
way from where the nest of dlgesters
stood. Another digester, those who
were nearby said, was hurled into
the Christiana river.
Accompanying the flight OF the di.
gester sky waId came a roar and the
walls Of the mill collapsed and tum.
bled into the great confused mass.
Mills nearb5 were partly demol. shed
either by the terrible force Of the
explosion, or were torn and crushed
by! flying timbers and masses Of
brick. Instantly the buildings we're
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and ruin. The digestor
and wash building was entirely un.
rooted, and the eastern wall and
part Of the remaining walls fell in.
The roof was torn from the engine
room and from the department Ia
which the wood was clipped. The
alkali building was partly demolish.
ed and the slate was torn from the
roofs Of other mills near by the ex.
plosion, exposing the boards to " hIch {
the slate had been nailed. g
On the site Of the dlgester build.
inS was o confused mass Of wreckage
Piles OF brick, blaokened tImbers ,
and twisted and bent metal we're
mixed together In heaps, and above ,
Ill stood several OF the diges ters :,
that had partly been torn from their
best by the explosion. Into the en-.
yiue room masses Of debris had Doe o :