The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-08-21
Those Who Escaped Death
Deluged by Showers of
Burning Acid.
SCENES OF DIRE DISTRESS
Terrible Scenes DuEiHs Night Hours
While WO-k Ct Rescue Was Being
AttemPted-Bodies. Horribly Burned
and MaugIed-BuiIdiags Wrecked.

WILMINGTON. Del. Aug. 21.-Up 70
noon today thirteen men are known 10
be dead as the result Of the explosion in
the Delaware Pulp Works yesterday aft
fernoon.
dozen others are missing. The
bodies Of the following employees have
been recovered and identified.
JOHN MCCORMICK
WILLIAM T BURKE. married.
GRANVILLE WAITER. married.
JAMES 3. STOKES. married.
FRANKLIN T. HARRIS.
GEORGE ". WRIGHT. married.
JOSEPH LAUBACKER-
JOSEPH T. HENRY
JOSEPH NAGLE. married
zACHARIAH COLLINS, eoIored, mar
ried-
JAMES JESTER
JOHN DURHAM.
JOHN LAUBACKER
Those believed TO be stnI buried IN
the ruins are: James Sweeney, William
Scott, William Ruth. and E. H. Mouriey.
The seriously injured are:
James Jester. burns On entire body,
and John Collins. burned internally.
George Durham and joel Hutton. two OF
the injured men, died this morning from
the effects Of their injuries.
Killed With Acid.
One hundred aas afy raon were en-
ployea Il to mis- fter the explosion
the buildings caught fre The seethfng
acid in the vats covered many CT tie
men, killing them instantly. The bodies
recovered are horribly nlangIed with the
skin Peeled of everywhere.
The police and fremen worked at ire
ruins all night. IN scene vas a dis
tress;ng one. many women and children
remaining there fer hours calling for
their lost husbands aad fathers.
It IS believed z number Of the bodies
we're blown into the Cnristiana River.
The cause Of the explosion Is unknown.
Five buildings were wrecked, entail
ing a loss CT $40.ee9-
High Pressure Vats Burst.
Jessup & Moores plant is on the out
skirts OF the city. and the digesting
plant is in one corner OF a large build
ing which fronts &C the ChrizIiaEa
River. The ''digesters" are heavy steel
Cylinders. in which he ground socd
pulp is Feduced 10 a pa aDer- making sub
stance by the woEk OF chemicals and
under enormces stea.a pressure. There
were ten cylinders n the battery, each
vita q capacity for consuming one and
one-haf cord OF weed. Built 10 sustain
an encrmSus strain, the digesters are
massive in size sui buiIt strong IS q
boiler. They were each twenty feet long
ana SIX feet n diameter
Il was exactly : O'Clock when the ez-
piosIcn occurred The dIgesteFs were
dlled and closed
Ceath n IN Instant.
Without warning one of the big tanks
was rent ssunder and death and de-
strpction scattered broadcast. First
there was q crash. then two quick ter
Ti1e reports ike the rever5srating OF
heavy eannonaaing- Two OF the i'm
nease- iron tanks sailed through the air.
They shot CIT a. ogpcsIie angles One
plunged Into the river AID its fall sent
the water s5oating skywacG ike 8 water
spout Tne otaer ys1at up 10 height
that made its SIX fset seem The dimea-
sioaS OF q can, and coming down struck
cn vacant grcaad with focce enough 10
bury itself By lis ewa impact.
Walls cr=mhled and fell with the
crash OF iron The earth trembied as
though in e5nvuIsions. WHAT men who
were net sent 10 instant death through
the air went Gown Il the ruins.