Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1907-10-17

net, Is miles northeast Of this city. ex'
pl0ded at 9:l5 Tuesday morning
practically wiping cut the little mining
town and killing 20 men and seriously
injuring 100 more. The mills burned
and the bodies Of tbS killed can not be
recovered. Every Daildins In the town
and within radius Of half mile. In.
GLIDING the school house Is wrecked.
The Big Four railroad ran special
train TO the scene Of the accident with
physicians and the injured are being
brought TO the hospitals In this city.
der mill is missing and is supposed to
be In the debris. state Of panic
prevails among tho residents Of the
surrounding country. the telegraph
and telephone wires are down. Many
automobiles already have left this city
with physicians anu medical supplies.
The first explosion occurred In the
glazing mill OF the plant at 9l5. Quick.
iy following the other mills blew up.
there being three distinct conclusions
at intervals of few minutes. In the
mills at the time, as to 80 men were
ut work. When the glazing mill went
up the men ran for their lives from
the other mills and many thus escaped
death. but received serious injuries.
At the first explosion the inhabitants
of the town ran from the buildings
and thus saved themselves. No one
was killed in the town. although there
Is not a building left standing.
At 10:45 30 minutes after the
first explosion, the heat from the burn
Ing mills exploded the great powder
| magazine situated In hollow several
hundred yards from the mills. 1t con
tanned many thousand kegs of powder
| and the conclusion was even greater
than those from the explosions Of the
mills.
Among those injured from the maya !
zine explosion were several physicians
who were ut work among the dead and /
dying.
A freight train standing on the sid |
Ing leading to the powder mills was
partly destroyed by the concussion and
took 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 We're taken to the
morgue to await Identification. In
jured were found scattered every.
where and We're collected and relief
given as rapidly as possible. Not a !
house Is left standing in the town |
Fronts, roofs. sides, and even founda-
tions of many buildings have been !
blown to atoms. Great holes are torn |
In the ground fences have vanished !
and household goods from the ruined |
homes are in confused heaps of de- |
bris In all directions. The people OF |
the town who had rushed from their |
homes ut the first explosion were |
saved because Of this. The shock from |
the exploding magazine wrecked the |
buildings in the town. The first body |
taken from the wrecked mills was |
that OF Doctor Carroll. an employee. Il |
was burned almost crisp. but the man |
was still alive and begged for some |
one to shoot him and put him out OF |
his misery. He lived but few min |
utes. The bodies of two other en- |
ployes, Yes Dial and his son, were |
found near Carroll.
Will Dalton was found Unconscious, |
his body badly mangled. He cannot |
live. Charles Wells, engineer on the |
freight train is badly injured. He is |
burned and his left leg is fractured. A
brick school building n quarter OF |
mile from the mills, was wrecked and
many Of the children within were In
jured, some seriously. but none fatally.
A farm house three-quarters OF mile
away was totally destroyed.
The school at Fontanet had just
been called TO order when the explo-
sion occurred. Forty OF the children
were injured.
Late Tuesday afternoon It was esti-
mated that there are 1000 homeless
In Fontanet and that fully GOO have
been more or less injured, the greater
number only slightly. Not person is
met but has blood in evidence either
from his own wounds or from those
Of people he has been assisting. Il Ii
impossible to get close estimate Of
the list OF dead. but Il will number
between 20 and 40. while a number Of
the injured will die.
Cincinnati. o.. Oct ia slight
shock similar to that OF an earthquake
was noticed here at $50 q. m. Tuesday
Professor Porter Ci the University OF
Cincinnati reporting II as very slight,
but distinctly noticeable. In southern
Indiana several points reported Q
shock In somewhat more severe form.
and It was also reported from Hamil-
ton, Ohio.
Brazil, Ind, Oct. 15-Three distinct
explosions were heard here Tuesday
from the direction Of the FOntanet
Powder mills. is miles away. Many