The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-05-18
Cause of Wreck Of the Canton
Tin Plate Mill Will be
Sought
VICTIMS Of EXPLOSION WERE
MUT|LATEO BEYOND RECOGNITION
Fragments Of Bodies Have Been Pick.
ed Up on Porches, on House Roofs
and in Tree Tops-One Man BesRed
to Be Killed When Found.

Canton. Ohio, May 18.-The state
officials arrived from Columbus today
and began an investigation into the
explosion of the seven boilers at the
plant Of the American Sheet and Tin
Plate company yesterday afternoon
which resulted in the death of four
teen men and injury to score or
more.
Although it is believed that no more
bodies will be found, careful search
of the ruins is in progress. At the
hospitals the physicians say that sew
eral of the seriously injured may die
The property loss on the wrecked
plant has not been estimated but IL
will be large.
The cause of the explosion Is al
present unknown. The fireman and
engineer who we're both In the boiles
room are dead.
No one else about the plant who
survived the accident can give an ex-
PLANTATION. One workman says he
heard three distinct explosions in
quick succession. They came 80 close
however, that it was all over in q
minute. The force of the conclusion
was terrific. The big plant is in such
state of ruin as to be practically q
total loss. A mere steel of the build
ing is left. Identification Of the men
was difficult because so many of them
were SO mutilated that even their
most intimate friends could not recog.
nize their features.
Heads were blown from several
bodies. Arms and legs were torn
from trunks. Fragments Of bodies
were blown several squares from the
scene and bits Of human flesh have
been picked up on porches and roofs
of houses and in trees.
There were 100 men at labor In the
plant at the time of the accident. But
dozen or so escaped. These and
others who rushed to the plant AZ soon
as the disaster was known worked
heroically to rescue the injured from
the ruins. which soon took fire. but
the fire department extinguished the
flames.
The superintendent Of the plant i'm
mediately put his foremen at work
trying to make list of the dead. in
jured and missing.
Members of bereaved families rush
ed frantically to the plant and thence
to hospitals and residences near the
ruined shops in an effort to find a
trace of their loved ones. 1t was
thought at 8 o'clock last night that
all the dead had been removed from
the debris. 1t was then stated that so
far as known the dead numbered
twenty, but this did not include any
who had died at their homes after re-
moval from the ruins.
The body Of one man. unknown, was
blown through house, over 700 feet
from the plant. The body entered the
house from the east side and continued
in straight line through bed room
and out the other side of the house.
The torso Of another man was found
in the garden of yard about 500 feet
west of the scene. Arms. legs and
parts of bodies were strewn about the
neighborhood.
The bodies of seven men, mutilated
beyond recognition were found in the
north end Of the mill.
For Gods sake hit me on the head
and kill me-" cried one workman to
q man who found him. The injured
man had an arm torn of and a great
hole in his side.