The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-30
WAVE OF DEATH
SWEEPS SCORES
OF HUMANS AWAY
Powder Magazines Explodes at
Lowell, Mass, Destroying
Houses andKiIIingor injuring
Seventy Persons.

LOWELL, Mass, July 29.-Two
small gun powder magazines, situated
in the very midst of the humble resi-
dences of fifty mill operatives, explod-
ed today with a frightful conclusion
and the resultant wave of death cut Off
the lives of more than score of hui
man beings and injured nearly fifty
others. Half dozen men who were
loading kegs of powder from one of
the magazines were blown to pieces;
four boys 200 yards away were killed
by the force of the explosion, and four
teen frame houses within a radius of
400 yards went down as If they had
been built of cards. Seven of these
houses Immediately caught fire, proba-
completely consumed. At least three
persons were caught in the ruins and
burned to death, while seven or eight
others, who were rescued, died sub
sequently of their injuries.
1t is estimated that seventy separate
pieces Of property, including those al.
ready mentioned, were destroyed, while
the force of the explosion wrecked
windows for five or six miles around,
and it's thunder could be heard dis
tinctly more than fifty miles away.
The Victims.
Lie IOHOWlHS Is The liSL OIL ILOS0
known to have been killed in the ex-
plosion:
GEORGE FINN.
JOHN M'MASTERS.
LOUIS E. RICHARDS.
JAMES L. GRADY, all employed by
the United States Cartridge company
JAMES B. SULLIVAN.
CHARLES MOORE.
JEAN ROLEAU, all employed by the
Stanley Forwarding company.
GILBERT M'DERMOTT, 10 years.
THOMAS HOULIGAN, IL years.
JOSEPH HOULIGAN, 10 years.
WILLIAM GALLOWAY.
ROBERT GALLOWAY.
ROBERT GALLOWAY, son of above
ALFRED LIE BRUN.
MRS. CATHERINE RIGGS.
EDDIE ROGERS.
GEORGE A. M'DERMOTT, 4 years
old.
JOSEPHINE PERUssE, IL years
old
MRS. VICTORIA PERUSSE.
ZEPHRAIM PERUSSE.
The nine last named were killed by
the fall of their houses or burned to
death. go
UNKNOWN MAN.
-Four persons are missing, two car
penters, names unknown, John Riggs
and Patrick Spencer. 7fa
Those fatally injured: sa loe
Amadee Boulanger, 18 years.
Clarendon Goodwin, 60 years, both
employees Of the cartridge company.
Mrs. Howard Burkett.
Miss McDermott.
Eliza Galloway.
Clara Suprena.
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Little Buildings Looked Innocent.
The magazines were the property Of
the United States Cartridge company,
Of this city, but were situated more
than a mile from the factory itself.
They were built of brick about ten
feet high, with rounded roof of cor
rugated iron. They were constructed
some thirty years ago in what was
then broad open field on the banks
of the Concord river. During the last
decade small wooden dwelling houses
have gradually sprung up in the vi
entity, crowding nearer and nearer
with fancied security to the two inno-
cent looking little buildings until they
almost completely surrounded them,
except on the river side, the nearest
house being scarcely fifty feet away.
One of the magazines was just with
in the roadside fence while the other
was about 100 feet behind it near the
bank of the river. Both magazines
ordinarily contained two or three tons
of gun powder in tin kegs, each key
being about eighteen inches high and
a foot in diameter. The company be-
ing DESTROYS of Strengthening the floor
of the magazine nearest the street,
this morning eight men, three of them
employees of the company, three ex-
pressmen and two carpenters, were