Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-10-16

General Walker. arm burned and
internally injured.
l.. NJ Carol. flesh cooked.
Mrs. Thomas Parr. scalp wounds.
Mrs. Martha Webster. cut on head.
william Hodges. badly burned
Andy Pittman. internal injuries
H. NJ. Edwards. cut about head and
body
Mrs. Rachael Montgomery. cut
about head. cannot recover
w, p. Mccoy scalp wounds
w. NJ Sharrod hand and feet and
body crushed
Charles Nash. can not recover.
Willard Carroll. cut about head
Elmer Bright. cut about face and
body
Professor ]. r. Shotpaugh. Of Fon-
tanet school serious body injuries.
George Stewart, seriously hurt.
Miss Susan Bishop. teacher at Coal
Bluff
Mrs. Wasteller, fatally injured.
John Gray. employe powder mill
Alex. Biddle.
Harvey Chandler.
Alva Edwards
Fred Cross.
Edward Cross.
Harvey Kelso
l.. J Harris.
Carl Hamerick
Mr.. Nulker.
William Walker.
James Thompson.
Mrs. r. Brannon.
Mary Brannon
The mills went up with three dis
tinct explosions followed nine min
utes later by a fourth even more seri-
Gus than the others. when the maga
zines went un. Immediately follow
ing the first explosions the wreckage
took fire. and the inhabitants of the
town, who rushed 10 the rescue of the
mill employees. found themselves pow
erless to aid those burning In tho
ruins They worked frantically In
constant danger from possible sue
ceedlng explosions, unmindful of their
ruined homes. Dead and dying were
picked IN and collected. Eighteen
bodies. horribly burned and mangled,
were carted to protected spot to
await Identification while the badly
injured. numbering upward OF fifty,
were nut on special train and taken
to Terre Haute.
Scarcely one OF the one thousand
inhabitants Of the town but carried
blood on hands and face from his own
wounds or those Of people who had
required aid.
The mills were located one mile
south OF the town. with the first ex-
plosion the employees ian for safety,
but most OF them were killed or
wounded by the quick following eX-
ploslons In the other mills. when the
heat from the burning mills exploded
the giant powder magazine, ninety
minutes later. destroying the town by
the conclusion. many of those en-
gagged in rescue work We're badly in
iured and several killed
Superintendent Monahan. OF the
plant, was killed while In his office
and his wife and sster-ln-law were
killed in their home some distance
away. That the death list is not far
greater Is due TO the fact that the
people Of the town had left their
houses at the first explosion and were
not In them when the explosion Of the
.O0O kegs OF powder in the magazine
hurled their homes TO pieces and scat
tered household goods In heaps Of
debris. Among the buildings totally
destroyed In the town were the Meth
odist and Christian churches, two
school buildings. the depot, all busl-
ness blocks. including large block
10 IA nd
500 homes In many Of them the
fronts were blown away. while in 9TH
ers the roofs were hurled into space,
the sides blown out or they were left a
confused mass of collapsed wreckage
A Big Four railroad freight train on
the switch leading to the mills was
destroyed by the explosion
and the wreckage caught fire. En-
gineer Charles Wells was badly burn
ed and received n fracture of the
right leg. Three school buildings were
destroyed at Fontanet and Coal Bluff
two miles away. In the next county.
An were filled with school children.
and every one OF them were more or
less Injured by the collapse OF the
A four-roOm school build
Ing was torn TO pieces and not one OF
the two hundred children escaped un-
hurt. although none was fatally hurt
A two-room school building az Coal
Bluff was turned over aud collapsed.
The teacher and ninety pupils were
more or less injured. The force OF
the explosion destroyed all telephone
with outside towns.
and IL was with great difficulty that
aid was summoned Terre Flaute ana
Brazil sent physicians and nurses with
supplies in carriages and automobiles.
while special trains were run on the
Big -Four railroad for the care Of the
Injured
Governor Hanley ordered the Terrc
IIaute company of Indiana national
guards 10 patrol the ruined district
and 10 protect life and property. The
Governor arrived this evening. He
brought with him seven hundred tents
md cots for the care Of the home
ess
Company y. Indiana national guard. |
forty men. Immediately on
.eaching here today reported % sher-
ff Horstey. who placed the men |
Iround the most damaged sections OF
DE city. The soldiers viii act under !
,rders from the sheriff unless Cover
ior Hanley sees fit Co declare martial |
,w. In which case state military Of |
frsr will be nlaced boz control