The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-23
SEVEN KILLED IN
FACTORY EXPLOSION
Novelty Company's Plant at
Findlay. Ohio, Is Blown
to Atoms.

FTNDLAY, Ohio, May Pas result
of an explosion in the two drying rooms
of the Lake Shore Novelty company $
known to be dead; five are so seriously
hurt that recovery is believed to be i'm
possible, and twelve or fifteen are in
jured badly.
From reports of the physicians ten Of
the less seriously injured may die as a
result of blood poisoning from the potash
that was driven into their bodies.
The list of dead follows:
JOSEPH SHERWOOD, twenty -one.
JAY SHERWOOD, twenty-four.
EDITH DILLON, seventeen.
DEAN SHAW, eighteen.
MARIE SNIDER, twenty two.
ESTELLA DECKER, fifteen.
FRANK GRANT, twenty -one.
The injured who it is believed cannot
recover are:
Maggie Logan, nineteen, injured by
flying debris
Thomas Beck, struck in the back by
flying barrel, arms and legs broken.
Internally injured:
Claude Shaw, twin brother OF Dean,
back severely injured and ankle broken.
Effie Peterman and her brother Roy,
injured.
The less seriously injured:
Carrie Peterman. seventeen, breast and
lungs crushed, and head and eyes pow
der burned
May Leavys, seventeen, worked beside
her, similarly hurt.
Louis Weingartner. hip fractured.
Minnie Doll, burned.
Mrs. Doll, forewoman, cut and burned
Minnie Quinlan, f1oorwoman,~ cut and
| bruised about the head and shoulders.
J. S. Leary, B. c. Swisher and William
Baughman also sustained slight hurts.
Three others whose names could not
| be learned were also cut and burned.
Two employees sre missing and are
supposed to have been blown to atoms
The Lake Shore Novelty works plant
covered nearly ten acres of ground in
] the southwest part of the city and en-
| pIoyed nearly 200 men, women and chill
| dren Railway torpedoes and Fourth o1
! July explosives were manufactured.
| Owing to the large rush Of orders the
| officials of the plant requested the en-
| pIoyes to report for duty today. About
| thirty complied with the request.
Two Explosions.
This morning the residents of Findlay
| were startled by two explosions thai
shattered windows throughout the city
! Inc cOncuSS1On Was lGIl tOI uliIcS
| Two magazines in separate rooms at tht
| Novelty works let go simultaneously witt
terrible reports. The exact cause of the
explosion is not definitely known. 1t Il
surmised that one of the Sherwood broth
| ers, who were the only persons in the
| drying rooms, dropped large box o.
| torpedoes, but this theory cannot be con
! firmed.
The explosion occurred shortly before
the employees assembled for duty. A
| least twenty persons were on their wa!
to the factory when the explosion oc
Cured.
Human forms were strewn considerable
distance apart on the factory site. Th'
remains of the Sherwood brothers wer'
found in drying room No. l, mangled ant
| almost unrecognizable.
The body of Edith Dillon was picket
up 100 yards from where the explosion
! occurred.
The news of the catastrophe spreai
like wildf1re throughout the county
Every train and interurban car that ha
arrived in the city for the past ten hour
was crowded The large plant is shat
tered into fragments, not one single wal
remaining. Bricks and timber can b
found for half mile around.