The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-22

OGCu OUIQGO from the OOuy duu luC
members severed. 1t is known that
the man met instant death.
The two men who had been taken
to the home of DR.. Lowe, were given
every possible care and as DR.. Lowe
was absent from the village hurried
call for doctors was sent to Kenosha
and Doctors Ripley, Kimball Robinson
and9 Pugh were hurried to the scene
of the explosion in automobiles. The
injured men we're swathed in band
ages of linseed oil and lime water and
made as comfortable as possible.
Both of the men were cious when
they were removed from the burning
mill, but they suffered almost un-
bearab1e pain while they were waiting
for thes coming of the doctors and
nurses.
Coroner Andre went to the scene of
the explosion and called jury to view
the remains of Phillips, after which
they were brought to the Krichbaum
morgue in this city and prepared for
burial.
The explosion caused the greatest
excitement among the men employed
at the plant, as all the men burned
had been employed with the various
companies of the trust for some time
and they were popular with the men.
Harris had been in charge of the
corning mill since the explosion of
last January which resulted in the
killing OF seven men while the other
two men had been brought to Pleas
ant Prairie from Southern plants to
take the places of the men who had
been killed. All of them we're ex-
perienced powder makers aud had
long been accustomed to the dangers
of the business in which they were
employed. Phillips who met death in
the mill had been employed at the big
plant at Nemours for several years.
His wife and son were left at Nemours
when he came to Kenosha with other
men who had been employed at the
plant.
Only five men were working in the
corning mill since it had been rebuilt
on account of the fact that the officials
of the Company found it difficult to
get men to take the places in this
portion of the plant.
In some ways the explosion was a
remarkable one for while the building
in which the powder exploded was
completely wrecked the force of the
explosion was not felt hundred feet
from the building. Other buildings
in the immediate proxlmity5were left
unscathed. Many of the workmen of
the Company were within few
hundred feet of the building and all
of them declare that they did rot feel
the force of the explosion.
Harris and Nowlandss bandaged in
cotton and appearing to suffer great
pain we're seen at the home of DIR.
Lowe, but they could not give any
reason for the explosion. These men
who work in powder mills are men of
iron nerve and even in the very
shadow of death Nowlands looked up
and smiled through the bandages and
declared that he was feelinguin pretty
good shape. The physicians who
were working at the bedside of
the men could not forecast the
result of their injuries. The
men were burned in all parts of the
body and their faces were so charred
that they we're almost burned away.
Harris seemed to suffer greater pain
than Nowlands. To one of his friends
Harris stated that it was possible that
the explosion was caused by clinker
in some of the powder that had been
brought in for grinding. He declared
that there was not large amount of
powder in the mill, as the mill had
been completely cleaned out last night
and the powder that exploded was the
powder that had just been brought to
the mill. Had there been a larger
amount of powder or had the accident
occurred later in the day the results
would have been even more disas-
trous.
The mill in which the explosion oc-
CURED was the same mill which was
destroyed in January and it had been
completed only short time ago. The