Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-10-16
PEOPLE ARE BUSY
REBUILDING TOWN
State VIII Make Investigation OF
Affair--Total Number OF Killed
Believed to Be IS But VIII
Never Be Accurately r
Known. sy III

met. Ind. Oct 16.-Details
Fone cause Of the terrible catas-
s-a'.1, ~ 'hs 'sterday when the dupont
Poxder N, Ills blew up knnng pluo p,so
poWuer p IN SONS and inturing some
soay 90 t1, pm lacking. NO one con-
ooo are stili +he powder company
,a',is mectsu wlIh ny reason for the ex-
nGe,in I,Ioaia,s SSc'Soe @ "a rumors We're cur
rent, the one mt in the glazing
that the machinery ated from fric-
mill became overhe ,me loose pow
tion and set fire to ~ was the first
der. The glazing mill ctions of the
to blow up, the other se succession.
plant following in rapid night in
Many people slept last of Gov
tents brought here by order tanding
guard. Systematic efforts are the
made to repair the houses OF n a
town and it is thought that within be
short time, most of them can
made fit for occupancy. -t..- ~.
1t is understood that the state au-,
thorities win Immediately begin an [
investigation of the cause of the dis !
aster. st.-.
No additional deaths were report
ed this morning. A systematic search I
today. The total number of the v
killed probably will never be known. d
----.---T The Explosion. .---------I c
The mills were located one mile =
south of the town. With the first :
explosion the employees ran for safe !
ty, but most of them We're killed or
wounded by the quick Following ex-
plosions in the other mills. When
the heat from the burning mills ex- y
ploded the giant powder magazine, :
ninety minutes later destroying the !,
town by the concussion, many of =
those engaged in rescue work were y
badly injured and several killed.
SUPERINTENDENT Killed =
Superintendent Monahan, of the [
plant, was killed while in his office, l.
and his wife and sister-in-lawt were
killed in their home some distance
greater is due to the fact that the n
people of the town had left their r
houses at the first explosion and t
were notin them when the explosion S
of the 1000 kegs of powder in the t
magazine hurled their homes to a
pieces and scattered household goods
in heaps of debris. Among the
buildings totally destroyed in thehe
town We're the Methodist and Chris W
tian churches. two school buildings, F
Guiding large block just completed, s
a large warehouse and 500 homes. h
In many of them the fronts were d
blown away, while in others the !,
sides blown out or they We're left a a
confused mass of collapsed wreck a
age. a H
School Children Hurt. &
Big Four railroad freight train
on the switch leading to the mills
was practically destroyed by the ex-
plosion and the wreckage caught /
fire. Engineer Charles Wells was
badly burned and received a frac-
ture of the right leg. Three school
buildings were destroyed at Fontanet
and Coal Bluff, two miles away, in
10 |
school children, and every one OF
them were more or less injured byI
the collapse of the buildings AL
four-room school building was torn
hundred children escaped unhurt, al
though none was fatally hurt.
tWO-room school building at Coal
Bluff was turned over and collapsed.
more or less injured. The force OF
the explosion destroyed the telephone
communication with outside towns
and It was with great difficulty that
aid vas summoned. Terre Haute and i
Brazil sent physician and nurses c
with supplies In carriages and suto7 d
mobiles, while special trains were :,
run on the Bic Four railroad for u
the care of the injured. cl
The losses. III
The loss to the powder company in n n
property damage is estimated at n
$3.50, 900, including $4,000 kegs of a.
powder stored in the magazine which a.
exploded. The property loss in the "
town viii exceed 100000. n,
Or. w. F. Williams, Of Terre c,
Haute, chief surgeon of the Fonta- =,
net mills, today compiled an official -
list of the known dead and seriously
injured, a copy of which he forward l..
ed to the company at Wilmington. ~
Del. The list contains the names Of ~
81 dead and 20 in a serious condi- IL
tion. -