The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1907-10-17

ploded 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 The killed can not be
recovered. Every building 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.
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, 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 9:15, Quick
ly following the other mills blew up,
there being three distinct conclusions
1T lllNOIN vi q low lliiuNNos ~ bhN
mills at the time, IS to 50 men were
at 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 1915 80 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 concussion was even greater
than those from the explosions of the
mills.
Among those injured from the maya.
zine explosion were several physicians
who were at work among the dead and
dying.
A freight train standing on the sid
ing leading to the powder mills was
partly destroyed by the conclusion and
took fire.
The heat from the burning mills and
freight train-was so great that 1t 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
the exploding magazine wrecked the
buildings in the town. The first body
taken from the wrecked mills was
that of Doctor Carroll, an employee. II
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.
| VIII 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 quarter Of Q
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 1t was esti
mated that there are 1000 homeless.
in Fontanet and that fully 600 have
been more or less injured, the greater
number only slightly. Not a person II
met but has blood in evidence eithel
from his own wounds or from those
Of people he has been assisting. It II
impossible to get close estimate O.
the list Of dead, but 1t will number
between 20 and 40, while number o
the injured will die.
Cincinnati, O., Oct. ia sigh
shock similar to that Of an earthquake
was noticed here at $3.50 a. m. Tuesda.
Professor Porter ri the University o
Cincinnati reporting 1t a. very slight
but distinctly noticeable. In southern
Indiana several points reported
shock in somewhat more severe form
and II was also reported from Hamil
ton, Ohio.
Brazil, Ind, Oct. 15.-Three distinc
explosions were heard here Tuesda,
from the direction Of the Fontane
Powder mills, Is miles away. Man
windows were shattered IN the bus
ness and residence districts. All plat
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