The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-05-04
DEATH In
EXPLOSION
Many People Killed and Manned In
Cleveland Horror.
TORPEDO WORKS BLOW UP,
Near BY Houses suffer and Inmates
Lose Their Lives Catastrophe
started by Girl Employee
stepping on Powder.

Cleveland, o., May Am explosion
that caused death and destruction oe-
Cured in the plant Of the Thor Manu-
featuring company, located at 644
Orange street.
Thus far FIVE people are dead, while
thirty others are lying at hospitals,
some fatally and others more or less
seriously injured
The Thor Manufacturing company is
engaged in the manufacture Of toy tor
pedo canes and other explosives. The
company was in the midst Of its busiest
season. A large stock Of material was
on hand Extra girls were being EN-.
ployed, and by the end of the week
it was intended to put on the road the
largest shipment ever sent out by the
company
The force Of the explosion was ire
mendous, and all the windows within
radius Of a quarter Of mile were
broken
Mother and Children Crushed.
In the house on Orange street next
to the factory lived Maurice Cohen
with his wife and eight children. With
the collapse Of the house simultaneous
~ with the explosion the woman and
four children were caught in the fall
ing partitions, and all were horribly
crushed. They were all taken out UNI
conscious. Mrs. Cohen died on the way
to the hospital
In the house directly in the rear
were Mrs. Barney Quass and two boys
All three were badly injured and taken
to hospitals.
The explosion is said to have been
caused by one Of the girl employees
stepping into some powder on the floor
Of the factory.
The flames were easily subdued by
the firemen. The fire fighters at once
commenced the work Of digging in the
ruins for the imprisoned The first to
be unearthed was little Arthur Con
way The next found was Willard
Cole. The tiremen dug him from the
rubbish near the front door. His right
arm was broken and terribly lacerated
and he was covered with bruises. He
was unconscious when found but all
most immediately regained his senses.
He broke away from the firemen who
were carrying him and rushed back to
the ruins crying; Florence! Flor
enceg
Find Girls Dishgured body.
From this the fremen knew that the
body Of some one else must be near
and, dragging Cole away from the
debris, resumed their feyerish search.
In a short time they came upon the
dead body of Florence Iipster. She
was pinned under great weight Of
debris and awfully bruised and disfig.
ured a falling timber had entirely
torn away one side Of her face,
Mrs. l., Page, seyenty-six years Of
age, lived near the scene Of the explo-
sion She was thrown to the floor
with great violence rs the result of
the shock. In falling her hair caught
upon an obstruction, and part Of her
scalp was torn Off. Both ears were
torn. Ia an adjoining apartment was
a baby eighteen months old Falling
glass cut the child SO severely about
the face that it is feared that its eye
sight may be destroyed.
4 short distance away was the home
Of Mr., and Mrs, II. Glueehmann. Har-
ry Gluechmann, their fifteen-year old
son, was lying critically III Of typhoid
fever. The tremendous explosion and
the consequent shock was too great for
the sick boy to bear, and he died with
In five minutes