The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-10
Nineteen Are Known tO|
 Be Victims.
ATRAIN's NARROW ESCAPE
Barely Missed Being Totally
 Annihilated.
Dismembered Portions of Dead Bodies Scattered to the Four winds-- workmen Trying to Secure
 More Corpses.

Connellsville, Pa, Sept. s.-The Rand south of Uniontown, were entirely wiped out by an explosion at s:05 o'clock today. Of the thirty-two men who went to work fin the mills this morning, nineteen are known to be dead. Of these thirteen have been Identified. The list of dead and miss ing is as follows:
 Fred Waterstraw. Jr.. William Me Intyre, Albert Woods. Omer Humphreys. George Llewellyn, Harry Underwood. Elmer Hughes, Clyde Woods, James Breakiron. George Martin, Charles Bar clay, Gilbert Mitchell, small boy; An await Gribble, Fred Waterstraw, ST.. Charles Fritz. William Llewellyn. Isaac MetcaIf, Omer Sweeney. Frank Ryland.
 Among the seriously injured are: Zenas Wfnaught. shock and burns; James Smiley, foot crushed and burned; c. N. W. Rand, manager of the plant, foot crushed and suffering from shook; Orville Swaney, arm broken and shock ed; Russell Strouthers, serious burns; George Goldsborough, burned and in- ternally injured; George Mitchell. burn- ed; John Humphreys, burned and hurt internally; Ray Havner, burned and suffering from shock.
 Scores of people in the town of Fair Chance, within half a mile of the pow . der mills, were more or less painfully injured. t e-
 The shock of the explosion YVES dis tinctly felt at Conneilsville, twenty miles away. buildings being rocked on their foundations. At Uniontown hum dreds of panes of glass were broken. In the town of Fair Chance there is scarcely a house that did not suffer damage. The rails of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway and the West Penn sylvania Traction Railway Company were rooted from the roadbed and traf- fic was delayed from four to six hours.
 Train Barely Escaped.
 Train No. 52 on the Baltimore and Ohio had a narrow escape from anni- hflation. It had just passed the Rand Mills when the explosion occurred. The windows in the passenger coaches were shattered and passengers thrown Into a panic. Had the train been a few sec- ofds later. 1t would have been blown up.
 There were seven explosions in all. and every one of the ten buildings was totally demolished. The debris that was stfewn over the ten acres of ground where the plant was located took fire soon after the explosion and added its terrers to the disaster. The dlsmem- bered parts of the dead were burned in many instances. Identification of many was made by parts of clothing alone.
 A majority of the dead men were sim gle. although several of them leave families. George Llewellyn was a man of 4S years and married. Ills son. William. who was also killed, was a lad of 19. Both he and his son worked in the packing house. Charles Bartlett was foreman of the plant. Fred Wa terstraw. whose son. Fred. was also killed, leaves a large family,
 When the bodies were recovered the work of Identification was difficult. Small pieces of bodies were picked up all over the place, but they were so mangled 1t was difficult to collect enough fragments of any one body to make Identification possible Almost a half mile mountainward from the plant an officers sleeve. wet with blood, was picked up.
 The hole where the magazine explod- ed is about IS feet deep and 50 yards square. The earth. black and soggy Is thrown up in huge chunks, many of them weighing a hundred pounds Under the high banks of earth thrown up at this place workmen are working with picks trying to get trace of more bodies.