The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-17

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 Terre Haute, Ind, Oct. 16.-The Du pont company's powder mills at Fonta net IS miles northeast of this city, ex ploded at 9:15 Tuesday morning practically wiping cut the little minina town and killing 70 men and seriously iniuring 100 more. The mills burned and the bodies of tbe killed can not be recovered Every p.iildins in the town and within radius of half mile, in. cluding 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 superintendent Monahan, of the Pow. der mill is missing and is supposed to be in the debris. A state of panic prevails among the residents of the surrounding country, tho 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 9:15. Quick. ly following the other mills blew up, there being three distinct concussions at intervals of few minutes. In the mills at the time, 75 to so men were at work. When the glazing mill went ID 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 building left standing.
 At 10:45 90 minutes after the first explosion, the heat from the burn ing mills exploded the great powder magazine situated in a hollow several hundred yards from the mills. It con tained many thousand kegs of powder and the concussion was even greater than those from the explosions of the mills
 Among those injured from the maga. zine explosion were several physicians who were at work among the de.-d 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 were taken to the morgue to await identification. In- jured were found scattered every where and were collected and relief given as rapidly as possible. Not a house is left standing in the town. Fronts, roofs, sides, and even founda- tons 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 at the first explosion were saved because of this, The shock from NNN NNPioAhA6 th0b aEhht Wttthtu tht buildings in the town. The first body taken from the wrecked mills was that of Doctor Carroll. an employe. 1t 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 a few min utes. The bodies of two other em- ployes, Yes Dial and his son. were found near Carroll.
 Will Dalton was found unconcious, 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 a quarter of a mlle from the mills, was wrecked and many of the children within were in- lured, some seriously, but none fatally. farm house three-quarters of a mile away was totally destroyed.
 The school at Fontanet had just been called to order when the explo- slon occurred. Forty of the children were injured.
 -ale tuesday afternoon It was esti- mated that there are 1,200 homeless m Fontanet and that fully 600 have peen more or less injured, the greater number only slightly. Not person is met but has blood in evidence either rom his own wounds or from those or people he has been assisting. It is impossible to get close estimate of .ne list of dead. but It will number between 20 and 40, while a number of the injured will die.
 cincinnati, O., Oct. 16.--A slight shock similar to that of an earthquake was noticed here at 9:30 a. m. Tuesday rrotessor Porter ci the University of cincinnati reporting it as very slight, Dut distinctly noticeable. In southern indiana several points reported a shock in somewhat more severe form, pa 1t was also reported from Hamil' ton, Ohio.
 Brazil. Ind. Oct 16.--Three distinct explosions were heard here Tuesday ff0n the 9f~ont4~.x nf 2ha Enptuupt