The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-10-16
A HUNDRED ARE INJURED
Heat of the Burning Mill Sets Off the
Magazine, and a Second Explosion
Injuries Physicians Working Among
the Unfortunates.- Shock Was Felt
All Over Southern Indiana.

Terre Haute, Ind, Oct 15-Oelay-
ed The Latin & Rand powder mills
at Fontanet, eighteen miles northeast
of this city, exploded at 9:15 this NOR
ming, practically wiping out the little
mining town of eight hundred in
habitants and killing twenty men and
seriously injuri1g one hundred more.
The mills are burning ana the bodies
of the killed cannot be recovered. Ev-
| cry building in the town within a ra-
dius of half mile was wrecked. The
| Big Four ran a special train to the
scene of the accident with physicians.
and the injured are being brought to
the hospitals of this city. Superi1ten-
| dent Monahan of the powder mill is
| missing and is supposed to be in the
| debris. A state of panic prevails am
ong the residents of the surrounding
country Telegraph and telephone
wires are down. The explosion was
heard and felt over a wide area. 1t
was heard in Indianapolis and at
Charlottesville thfrty-ffve miles from
Fontanet. it cracked brick walls ald
sank the thing in floors. Many win
dows were broken at Brazil. Cincin-
natl reports feeling the shock. 1t was
there thought to be an earthquake |
Southern Indiana and Hamilton, Ohio, |
report feeling the shock.
More Definite Report.
Brazil, Ind, Oct. 15.-From twenty |
five to thirty persons are dead and dy- |
ing. one hundred injured and every |
house in Fontanet destroyed, as the |
result of an explosion of the powder |
mills of the Dupont Powder Co. near
Fontanet today The first explosion |
occurred in the glazing mill at 9:15, |
followed later by the explosion of the !
magazine. There We're three distinct |
conclusions at intervals of a few min
utes In the mills at the time of the |
explosion there were Is or so men at
work. When the glazing mill went up
the men ran for their lives from the
other mills and many escaped death, |
but received severe injuries.
At the first explosion the inhabit-
ants of the town ran from the build
ings, and thus saved themselves. No
one was killed in the town, although
there was not a building left standing.
At 10:45, ninety minutes after the
first explosion, the heat Of the burn
ing mill exploded the great powder
magazine situated in a hollow several
hundred yards from the mills. 1t con
tanned many thousand kegs of pow
der and the concussion was greater
than from the explosion of the mills.
Among those injured from the maga-
zine explosion were several pnysi
clans who We're at work among the
injured employees. The heat was 50
great that it was impossible to re-
move many bodies from the wreck
age Eighteen bodies were taken to
the morgue The injured were found
scattered everywhere. and the debris
was searched as rapidly as possible.
Fontanet is a mining town of 500
inhabitants, IS miles from Terre
Haute and u miles from Brazil
The Latest Report.
Fontanet, Ind. Oct. 16.-The loss
to the powder company in property
damage is estimated at $3.50. 900. in
Gliding 655 kegs of powder stored in
the magazine which exploded. The
property loss in the town viii exceed |
$50 900
DR. w F. Williams, of Terre Haute. |
chief surgeon of the Fontanet mills. |
today compiled an official list of the |
known dead and seriously injured. a |
copy of which was forwarded TO the |
company at Wilmington. Del. The list |
contains the names of thirty-one dead |
and twenty in serious condition.
News Kept from Bride and Groom.
New York. Oct 16.-The marriage
of Fred I. Dupont, vice president of |
the Dupont Powder Company of Della
ware. and Miss Alice Maddox. his sec
ond cousin, took place at the Plaza |
Hotel yesterday Neither Fred Dupont /
nor his brother Morris. who is acting
president of the powder company, was
allowed to hear of the explosion at |
Fontaaet, Ind. until today. Their /
friends believed both would insist on |
postponement of the wedding in order |