The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
One Dead and Five h.
 jured. OCCURRED DURING
 FIRE IN DWELLING Costly Plate Strewn About the
 City. Dynamite stored at Hammond Mines Was Fired When Spectators Watched Department at work on a Blazing
 Building.

 man is dead. one is dying and four are injured as a result of a dynamite explosion at the Hammond Mines sev- en blocks from the business section of the city shortly before 9 o'clock to. night.
 So terrific was the explosion that al- most every plate glass front in Gads- den is broken and fragments of cost ly windows strew the pavement, Twen- ty-four miners. houses m the vicinity of the place where the explosion oc- cured are leveled to the ground and others in the vicinity are damaged.
 The dead: Henry Keil, Rome. Ga., employed by the A. and J. Mfg. Co.
 Fatally injured: Jake Loman. mem- Der Gadsden Fire Department. leg broken, internal injuries.
 Others injured more or less serious ly: Mack Terrell. member of Fire De- pertinent. Gus woodliff Chief of Fire Department. scalp wound missing. Ar- thur Hood.
 Shortly before o'clock tonight fire broke out in a dwelling located near the mine magazine. The mines are on Tuscaloosa Street, several blocks from the business section of the city An alarm was turned in to the depart ment. and the entire equipment was taken out. including about forty fre- men.
 Crowd Had Gathered.
 Arriving at the scene of tho fire, preparations were made to throw wa- ter on the blaze. While the fremen and hundreds of spectators crowded around the burning building, gazing upon the spectacular scene. there was a bliuding flash of fire which pierced the heavens. Then came terrific shock which hurled everyone from their feet to rhs ground. Debris, hurled high in the air, fell to the earth and amid the wild confusion came the cries of men, women and children. For fully a minute after the explosion pieces of rock continued to fall from those who were now hurrying from the scene of the disaster Members of the fire company stand- ing within fifty feet of where the ex- pIosion occurred, were hurled for dist ances ranging from twenty-five to more than 100 feet.
 Miners had been drawing from the store house during the day and 1t is not definitely known how much dys namite was in the ouliolhB at lhe tAhe of the disaster.
 After the explosion terror reigned in the city. Women cried and screamed on the streets. Glass was shattered ana thrown to the sidewalks, while In some houses plastering. was looseneo from the walls. Many believed that an earthquake had poured and 1t was some time before many of the people could be quieted.
 A. W. woodliff. Chief of the Gads- den Fire Department, when seen aI'er the explosion. said:
 q was preparing to get another me A. bose 10 the fire and was looking di- ractIv into the burning buildings. Sud- danTv there was e flash and Ieit my self carried from my rect ana throMn "a tba groundI did not reatize "nSt had happened and did not know TOT several minutes that was lnJ as eu. .
 ..Tt Is miraculous that dozena Of peo- ole were not killed. for they were crowded about the fire So closely e tnat S,,s could scarcely pass through Wltn the line of hose Several men nao thair clothing torn from ther OaShs. TeiI who was killed, was directly in front of the place where the dynas notta was stored. and stones passed throu1h his body, Several minutes sF,er inc explosion, when assistance arrived. he was picked up in dylns oanSition. Arthur Hood, aged about 10 years. was standing near keil. ana be cannot be found tonight u ls feared that he was blown entirely away. ,u r,,,,ae oF tba Fire pepartment. was forty or nifty .,1,,ee rect 9rnnn the place where the dynamite was stored; and was struck on the heao bv a niece of debris. but was not se- riously injured. His clothing was rended to shreds. ,, o,d
 Several persons, men. women ano children. who were spectators were tninred more or less But owing to tbs fact that they went or were car ried to the homes of friends near the scene of the disaster. the full extent of their injuries cannot be learned ana tbair names cannot be secured at thls time. - ,ro oDA sno non1Es of dynamite stored in the mag