Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-10-15
TOWN WAS ALMOST WIPED OUT
Were Three Separate and Dis
tinCt Conclusions at Intervals
Of a Few Minutes.
People Panic Stricken--At Indiauap-
oils and CrawfordNillc shock Was
Felt. and al Cincinnati.

Brazil. lad. oct lj.--Fr0m 30 TO
80 persons dead or dying. zoo per-
sons injured. and every house iu F1u-
tanet destroyed. rendering several
hundred people housele-s. ls the rc-
suit OF AN explosion Of powder iu the
mills of the Dupont Powder company,
near Foptanet. at 9:15 O'Clock today.
The first explosion occurred iu the
glazing mill of the plant at 9;l5.
Quickly following the other mills blew
Up, there being three distinct concus-
sions at intervals Of a few minutes.
In the mills az the time 40 % so men
were al 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
TOWN DESTROYED
Terre Hautc. oct 15.-Tho Lamu g.
Rand Powder Mills. at FOntauet, is
miles northeast OF the city, exploded
at 9:l5 this morning, practically Wip-
ing out the little mining town and
killing 20 men and seriously niuriug
100 more The mills are burning and
the bodies Of the killed cannot be re-
covered. Every building in the
town and within radius of half "a
mile. including the schoolhouse e.
wrecked. The Big -Four railroad ran
special train TO the scene or the acci-
dent with physicians. and the injured
are being brought to the hospitals In
this city. Supt MonRhan, az the pow
der mill Is missing and IS supposed to
De m he debris. a state NJ panic pre-
walls among the residents 1f the sur
rounding country. the telegraph and
telephone wires are down. Many auto
mobiles already have left this city
with physicians and medical supplies.
There We're three explosions shortly
after o'clock. and fourth at 10
o'clock I'm which a number of the ply
sicians were slightly injured, among
them Drs Willicn and Moore of this
city
The mills destroyed were the prop
erty Of the Dupont Powder company.
EFFECT IN INDIANAPOLIs.
indianapolis. Ind, oct. 15.--The shock
from the explosion al Fontanet. Ind,
was heard 90 this city. At CrawfOrds-
vile, So miles from Fontanet, the shock
cracked a brick wall and sank thing
m "a MNDl an mon. All NfIfInhIlt tNN~
nectiou with Mont8net is lost and par
ties have left Terre Haute and Brazil
in automobiles 10 learn the details. It
Is reported. but not confirmed that %
people were killed. The explosion un-
doubtedly was caused by the blowing
up Of the plant OF the Dupont Powder
company. situated one mile south Of
Fontanct II employs about 100 mon
and has been running full capacity II
Is believed a full force was at work
at the mill.
FELT ~ CINCINNATI
Cincinnati. oct IA slight shock.
! similar TO that OF an earthquake was
naticed here al $3.50 this morning. Prof
Porter. Of the University of Cincinnati
reporting II very slight, but distinctly
noticeable. In southern Indiana points
reported a shock ln somewhat more
severe form and it was also reported
from Hamilton Ohio.