Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-12-15
EXPLOSION is EXPLAINED
THEORIES ADVANCED FOR .,,,,,..
IA1IoN OF A BODY BY AN I''A''
EXPLOSION
CONSUMED BY THE HEAT
Other Is That Person Is Torn
ments By Forces Within Him Win.
He Is in Vacuum

cloth IS found to represent tr,. -'1e VI
a high-grade explosion. In ill.,, ''iu OF
tlon of some dynamite car. S,,uc-
hamton, n. Y, two men s,.,;,..5 h'As'
peared, and there are other o..' N'Sap-
parent total humiliation. rrn.o.. VI al-
TINS two theories are advance. -'' Tor
that bodies near the center ~, 'Ae is
SION are consumed by the rnr. me eApIo-
/ experiments have shown tI,at =: "tdt.
per cent be placed under n s,,.i u COP
OF hlgh explosive and the eypjns;,.. N"I' se
mated, the coin will totally 5i' ueIo-
90 great IS the heat that the coIr,,nPI
~; ;to' 3e used put instantly resolved ;n ta
| It's chemical elements and noss,J0' mo
gases. The theorist in p,.rJns9,l VI IN
argue that flesh and bone is n,,., WIZ
| cepuble to heat than coppcr .nI suS-
| human body near the cpnta, ,f '''al
explosion will be instantly consn,,a3 7'eat
ne other theory has to do VIII
| experts mysterlously term the .f,s+l "hdi
fadlus. The mystery is NOT in f5 '''D'leu
alone; 1t is generally diffused tI,ane5 Term
space about the center Of nm '' ,.,...5A The
Immediately following the disclaprosioh.
| vacuum is created, which is aI,,,r..;se
| iy circular. Place a human I,,.l1. ''I'ale-
| vacuum and, the pressure from ~. ~
| having no surrounding atmn.1i.""hh
counterhalance it, the body viii Nv a.; :"
rupted. therefore, says the dvnani,.aa
man. caught near the center off an "a
RI iostoh, would ne blown to fragments Jv
! the forces within him. even v.if6n,,t .'.s ~
! onlng on the rending force of w. ''yA-
! plosiOn itself '"e eA-
how an Explosion Cut Grass
Immediately following the creat,,, ..
! !!Iie vacuum comes the rush Of air IA f1
| II. 1t is this thrush that does tha WIKI i'
| spread damage to property. Wm5or.s
! Tor instance, are not burst IN. .Ia 1'"s'
| eusSlon. They are sucked ont rr -
surge of the air 10 supply the ys,,,,r'
| Similarly the four walls of n bu;jlf,@'
! stroyed at some distance from rI. a-,f
sion, usually fall forward each in h
| own direction because the pressure o1+
SIDE the walls being leSsenpd. the pras
sure within pushes them out 4 eDFio1s
| example of tins atmospheric inr7sL ,-as
| witnessed by a party of government of-
| hclalS conducting explosion eyparrnants
| on Rose island near washington Tba
| place selected was a meadow. uyurimr
| with grass and field flowers bor,veen fy-S
| and three feet high. \ charge Of gn
| cotton was fired on an anvil When t6a
| smoke cleared away the anvil had lis
| appeared. 1t had been buried under a
NOW of verdure so deep that oulv 9frar
| dlhgent burrOWing was it brought ia
light What had happened was tbjs
| The air, sweeping in toward til, cen.
| trail area, had cut the grass like huge
scythe, and heape1 it over the srot Of
| the explosion.
Explosions Are Costly
To this cost, the manufacturing dvns.
| inter knows how widespread the efiecfs
| of this suction are-sjuce all of fIsn
| react on his pocket.
If the destruction of the plant wee
| the only cost of an accident" saws one
| of the suffering manufacturers. wed
| get off light. It's the outside damages
| that hurt On the morning after a fac.
| tory blow-up, the honest farmer ion miles
around bitches up his nag and drives in
| with his little bill for broken windows
and fallen plaster. Every pane Of glass
| that he has lost from any cause what.
| ever since we settled for the last ez.
| ploSlOn, he puts up to us. Ditto with
| ceilings. If his wife happens TO have
| had hard luck with her crockery that
| ceason, she comes along with her little
! list. Do we pay! Certainly we pay
! It's cheaper than law, | know one case
where a dynamite plant moved out Of
| county because a greenhouse firm moved
| in
Five IONS of dynamite on railroad
| car at Nestal, \. Y. caused q shock
which ratified windows in Bughamt0n,
| ten mics away. and threw from thtr
miles distant Lightning struck dyna:
mite storehouse at Akron, y y, and
| he defamation of the two tons Of ez-
| plosive stored there frightened villages
nearly twenty miles away which khf|
Of the thunderstorm only 10y seeing the
heat lightning.
The "Feathered Radius"
The the extent of the actual vacuum,
or ''feathered radius there IS app4ar'
entity pretty definite limit kouSny
speaking, the defamation Of ntty POUNDS
of a high-class explosive will create an
area of low pressure $50 feet in dam
eter. These figures are derived from aa
actual circumstance. -Four WafhMeu
were involved in an explosion Of Una.
caliber. One of them who stood g,e-
the dynamite disappeared entirely Ils
second was represented 10y q Yer! ~"
fragments. Possibly 90 feet away .
third man was walking to"aEI d n" Ia
fence. His naked body was found w
feet beyond the fence. Here Is 'le 'es"
mony of the fourth man: A~,
Il was not more than i"tA|5-
wards from the boxes when t"t L.
came. Something pressed on mr. 2.tsif
heavily. 1t was hard To breathe. I5f.
felt something showing me ''"t' +Ia
center of the explosion Gus N.> ~
inrushing CURRENT though W"a5..
run the other way. / stum''' 4l -r
and fell. | got up ana I+A ""''
Evidently this man stood aa ~. ..l
of the ''feathered radius 49,. 10
workman, who was blown -.as.
fence. was between hlm ana .'- +.s
mite-within the deadly at
time of this explosion aA g. ,s-
working mt window .nH"..- ."r.
scene He does not rom -t
the huildinC or climbing i.H ......r-