The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-10-24
TOWN IS WIPED
OUT OF EXISTENCE
Appalling Accident in Indiana, Two
Score Persons Being Killed
and Hundreds Injured.
Dupont Powder Works Blown Up and
Town OF 1000 People Wiped on
the msp--Farm Houses Miles
Away Wrecked by the
Explosion.

Funtanet. Indy the explosion oI
the Dupont powder works on Tuesday
between twenty-five and fifty persons
were killed. co.. injured. and Fontanet
city Of 1000 people. wiped out. The
dead and more seriously injured have
been taken away. Five hundred In
hIbitnnts, all more or less wounded
remain 10 gather scattered household
goods and sleep under tents. guarded
By soldiers OF the state
Without warning. the powder milla
seven In number. blew up at s:i5 on
Tuesday morning They employed
geo men. and OF these. seyenty.fye
were al work when the first explosion
occurred in the press mill. In quick
succession the glazing mill. two
corning mills and the powder maya
zine blew up. followed By the cap mill.
In the magazine, situated several hun.
dred yards from the mill. were stored
1000 Kegs of powder The concus-
sion when IL blew up was felt 200
miles away.
Every house in this town was de.
stroyed Farm houses two miles
away. and school houses equally dis
tant were torn to pieces and their oc-
cupants injured. indianapolis and
even Cincinnati felt the shock. a
passenger train on the Big Four rail.
road four milea away had every
coach window broken. and several
passengers were injured by hyins
glass,
Tho mills were located one mils
south Of town. With the first explo.
sion the employees ran for safety, but
most OF them were killed or wounded
BY the quick following explosions In
the other mills. When the heat from
the burning mills exploded the giant
powder magazine. ninety minutes
later. destroying the town by the con
eussion. many OF those engaged in
rescue work wore badly injured and
several killed, Superintendent Mona
han Of the plant WAS killed while In
his Office, and bis wife and sisterin.
law were Killed III their home. some
distance away.
That tho death list Is not far great
or II due 10 the fact that the people
OF the town had left their houses az
the first explosion aud were not in
them when the explosion OF the 4 ,0Dt
kegs OF powder In the magazine hurled
their homes 10 pieces and scattered
household goods In heaps Of debrs
Among the buildings totally destroyed
In the town we're the Methodist and
Christian churches, two school build.
inga the depot. all business blocks.
including large block just com.
pleted. large warehouse and SOC
homes
Governor Hanley ordered the Terre
tiaute company of Indiana national
guards to patrol the ruined district
and to protect life and property. The
governor arrived Tuesday evening. He
brought with him 700 tents and cots
for the care OF the homeless.
Three school buildings were de
Etroyed at Fontanet and Coal blum.
two miles away, All were filed with
school children. and every one Of them
Was more or less injured by the col
iapae Of the buildings A four.room
school building was torn to pieces
and not one OF tho 400 children es
capped unhurt. though none was fatally
injured, A two.room school bulldlnr
at Coal nluff was turned over an,
collapsed The teacher and ninety pu
pills were more or LEGS injured. Tn
force OF the explosion DESTROYED al
telephone communication with out
side toxns, and u was with great ar
nculty Mat aid was summoned. TER,
Hante and Brazil sent physicians ant
nurses With suppliea In carriages a..
automobiles. while special trains wer
made up ANA run on the Mig -Four
railroad for the care OF tho Injured