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leading to the powder mills was partly
destroyed by the concusson and caught
fire
The heat from the burning mills and
freight train was so great that it was
impossible to remove many of the bodies
from the wreckage.
Eighteen mangled bodies were taken to
| the morgue to await identification.
Injured were found scattered every
where and were collected and relief given
as rapidly as possible.
Fronts. roofs. sides and even founda-
| tons of many buildings were blown to
atoms. Great holes were torn in the
ground. fences vanished and household
goods from the ruined homes We're in
heaps of debris in all directions.
The people of the town who had rushed
from their homes at the first explosion
were saved because of this. 1t was the
shock from the exploding magazine that
wrecked the buildings in the town.
Begged to Be Shot.
The first body taken from the wreck
of the mills was that of Doc Carroll
an employe of the mill. 1t was burned
to crisp, but the man was still alive
and begged for some one to shoot him
and put him out of his misery. lie lived
but few minutes
TWO other employees We're found near
son. Both were dead. VIII Dalton was
found unconscious, his body badly man
gled. He cannot live. Charles Wells,
engineer on the freight train. was badly
injured He was burned and his leg
is fractured
A brick school building a quarter of
mile from the mills was wrecked. and
many of the children inside we're In
Jured, some seriously, but none fatally.
A farm house three e-quarters of a mile
away was totally destroyed.
TERRE HAUTE. Ind. October 15.-Du
Pont powder miles at Montanet. eighteen
miles northeast of this city, exp.oded at
9:15 O'Clock this morning. practically
Wiping out the little mining town and
killing twenty men and seriously injuring
100 more.
The mills are burning and the bodies
Of the killed cannot be recovered. Every
building in the town and within radius
of half mile, including the school house,
is wrecked.
The Big Four railroad ran a specia!
train to the scene Of the accident with
physicians, and tho injured are being
brought to the hospitals in this city.
Superintendent Monahan of the powder
mill is missing and is supposed to be in
the debris.
A state of panic prevails among the
residents of the surrounding country
The telegraph and telephone wires are
down. Many automobile parties have left
this city with physicians and relief sup
plies
Shock in Brazil, Ind.
BRAZIL. Ind, October 15.-Three dis
tinct explosions were heard here today
from the direction of the Fontanet pow
der mills, fifteen miles away. Many WIN
dows were shattered in the business and
residence districts. All plate windows in
the Citizens Bank building were de-
stroyed.
1t was reported here that the powder
house and two mills OF the powder COM
pany at Fontanet had blown up and
that from twenty-five to one hundred
persons had been killed.
All communication with Fontanet is
cut off by wire, and persons in automo-
biles left at once to render any possible
assistance.
Fontanet is a mining town Of a few
hundred Inhabitants. situated on the Big
Four railroad, eighteen miles east of
Terre Haute and siXty-five miles west
Of Indianapolis
Jared indianapolis.
INDIANAPOLIS. October 15 The
shock from the explosion at Fontanet
was heard in this city. At Crawfords-
vile. thirty-five miles from Fontanet, the
shock cracked brick wall and sank TIL
ing in floor one inch. All telephone con-
nection with Fontanet is lost, and per-
sons have left Terre Haute and Brazil in
automobiles to learn the details. 1t is
reported, but not confirmed, that twenty
five persons were killed.
Felt in Ohio.
CINCINNATI, October 15.-A slight
shock, similar to that of an earthquake,
was noticed here at $50 this morning,
Prof. Porter of the University of Cincin
natl reporting it as very slight, but dis
tinctly noticeable. In southern Indiana
several points reported shock in some
what more severe form, and 1t was also
reported from Hamilton, Ohio.
ANTT-JAPANESE RIOT.