New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10
Among those seriously injured are:

MOODS. MOODS. clyde,
Among those seriously injured are:
GOLDBERG. George. burned and & Internally injured
A5ALLPaBTFs AALTH John burned and internally injured
RANp e NJ. w OF plant foot ornS''eo anu
s,s1IIEY> ley James. foot crushed and burned
srz1 ,Tesg ssTiSns and nGFah Shock
wlNAUGHT. snock and burns
coores Of persons in the town of Falrchance'
within half a mile of the powdef liliilS' "'i'
more or less painfully injured
7rbe shock of the explosion was distinctly felt
a.. Conneusville. twenty miles away. buildings
being rocked on their foundations AT oiiioii
town hundreds Of parles of glass were pFoheii'
IN the town of Fairchance there is scarcely
bouse that did not suffer damage. Ihe sioes
were battered in as though axes had been useu.
;5avstacks were toppled over in the fields ana
livestock was stunned. The rails of the Baltl-
-6 Obio Railroad and the west feliiisSi-
It p.ilxrav were rooted from the roadoeo anu
.-o+Hc was delayed from four 10 SIX hou1s
.-a,efers being made over the PennsylNs siii0- y
+.,n on the Baltimore and Ohio hao a hdiio
.scanA from annihiIation. 1t had JUST pa''
+ba Rand mills when the explosion 00i
Tho windows in the passenger COACHES We"
..a++ered and passengers thrown into panic.
Had the train been few SECONDS late 1t "o0iN
tora heen blown UP. as the mills are WITHIN d
-. - +ba tracks 4 streetcar on the West
7,--.,,-snia Railway had also passed just d
ta1r seconds before the explosion, ana was Ia. "a.
enough away to escape damage 'housh - "
the rails
,r,-o -.-a sa,,en explosions in all Every one
% the ten buildings was totally demolished
Not = 1-estige Of them remains tonight Inc
debris that was strewn over the ten acres Oh
ground where the plant was situated 'ooA III
soon after the explosion and added It's Tel rois 70
the disaster The dismemhered parts ol .il7
dead were burned in many instances. 1ueil'i"
catinn of many was made by parts OF clo'iiie
alone The first three explosions were not 81
.a-;o,,s as the last four Then the packing house,
pressing room and magazine blew up ioiio"eu
bv two cars of dynamite standing on nearby
rafrosd siding which were set off by the con-
cuesio, from the powder mill explosions The
other cars remained intact. and 1t was with dlI-
ncultv that they were moved to a fface Oh
safety after the explosion
Whenever a survivor or q finder of some ghast-
lv relic chose to talk, he was Immediately sur
rounded by eager groups of listeners orVlHe
Swanev was working in the glazing room and
had gone out for drink Of water. He was just
outside when the mixing mill went up The ex-
pIosion threw him high in the air. but he land
eed on his feet on a network Of fallen wires
lodging through these, he sped around the nil
and was fifty feet away when the second expio-
sion threw him on his face. He lay there
stunned and knew nothing Of the terrific blast
that came when the storage magazine went up.
A half-hour after the explosion he was picked
I'd and carried to a place of safety All day at
short intervals searchers would bring in ghast-
" relics of the explosion
When the bodies were recovered the work of
identification was difficult. Almost a half mile
nountainward from the plant office over
sleeve was picked up
The hole whers the magazine exploded is
about Il feet deep and 30 yards square The
earth black and soggy. is thrown up in huge
chunks some of them weighing a hundred
pounds Under the high banks of earth thrown
up at this place workmen are working with
picks irving to get trace Of more bodies.
C. Mortimer Rand the manager, taken
10 his home at Uniontown a. streetcar about
noon He suffered greatly from shock, aside
from the nainful injuries he received. Mr. Rand
could not be seen and no statement from the
con1nanv could be obtained of the accident or
the cause OF il.
This Is the third explosion at the Rand plant
within the last two years Three men were
killed in the first explosion. Two were hurt IN
the second which was only slight. A few months
ago the citizens of Fairchance had an fnJunc-
ton served on the Rand powder firm asking the
court that the firm be compelled to move thelr
works from that neighborhood. Ihey declafeu @
that the town of Fairchance was jeoparolzeo py
placing a pIant so close the town Ih1s IN
junction is still pending in the superior Coui' /