Evening journal., 1915-12-03
Crave Receives
some Victims OF
POWDER BLOWUP
Continued from First Page.

Church and interment in Riverview
Cemetery
The funeral OF Elmer Spruance Fox
will be held from the residence OF his
parents. Mr. and Mrs. John w. Fox,
No. 1903 Chestnut street. on Sunday
afternoon at 2.30 o'clock Interment
will be in Riverview Cemetery.
The bodies of the unidentified.
which include Margi Bricotti. Harry
Elliott, Norman Fisher, James Gem
mil. Edward Gross. James Malloy.
Elijah Springfield. Gimi Silvestri, Paul
Smack and John Smack will all be
held at the undertaker's establish
ment until Tuesday afternoon when
the funeral at Hagley House will be
held
Letters OF administration on the es-
tates OF two men who were killed I'm
the explosion have been issued by
Register Of Wills Isaac r. Brown.
The two victims are Elmer y. Mace.
OF Henry Clay and Harry Haber, OF
No. 217 W. Second street. Letters OF
administration on the estate of Mace
have been issued to his widow. Sarah
b. Mace, and letters of administration
on the estate of Haber have been
issued to his brother. Edward Haber.
In behalf OF the DUPONT Powder
Company. Charles B. Lands, official
spokesman for the company, has is
sued the following statement deny
ing many sensational rumors that
have appeared in newspapers outside
Of Wilmington:
"In view OF the many sensational
and utterly groundless reports sent
out from Wilmington relative to the
recent explosion in one OF the packing
houses of the Brandywine plant. du-
Pont Company. ! am authodized by
the company to say that no fire. nor
explosion has occurred in any one Of
our factories in any part OF the coun-
try since the European war began
affording ground for charging or be-
iieying that the same was the result
of outside planning or interference.
"The report that placards we're
posted warning certain employees OF
an impending explosion aud inform
ng them that if they remained at
work they did so at their peril, is en-
tirely false. This report was so start
ing that Immediately after it was
started the companys guards hurried
IN automobiles along all the roads
within a wide radius of the plant.
where these notices were alleged to
have been pasted. examining every
rec and telegraph pole, fairly comb
ne the country They not only did
not find such placards but they we're
unable to discover anyone who had
seen any such placards.
"The report that a man with sixty
svo feet Of fuse wound around his per-
ron had been arrested at our largest
srnokeless powder plants at Carney's
Point and was being detained. was
,ure invention. None of our guards
" employees ever heard OF any such
rnr
So warnings Received.
s1r,c report that Great Britain had
warned the company OF the presence
n German and Austrian spies In our
liant and that our secret service was
reepipg under surveillance certain al
leged German and Austrian reserYlsts
's absolutely untrue.
"The statement that the street car
rack leading to one OF our plants
vas dvnamited yesterday near one OF
he company's gates and a street car
oaded with people kept from dashing
Town a bank solely by the presence
~ mind OF the motorman, is without
,be shadow OF truth The street car
romnanv reports that it has never
aad an intimation Of any such Incl
lent. ,,,,,,.
our DIants have been tripled and OF
ders given to shoot anyone who should
attempt to force his way through; tha1
ali roads leading to the company s
plants had been shut off one and one
,alf miles from the gates; that 81 ,OOO,-
100 reward had been offered for plot
nroof Of the explosion; that our en-
GLOVES we're being stampeded and their
wages advanced 300 per cent to hold
them: that the government was honey
combing our plants with Secret Ser
vice men: that an electric wire had
been discovered leading across the
Brandywine from the opposite side
of the stream and connecting with the
plant that had been destroyed; that
we had reason to believe that one oi
the men who had been killed had
sacrificed his life in order to destroy
the plant and thus render service tC
the fatherland-all these statements
and reports constitute a mixture o.
speculation and invention calculated
to arouse the interest of the casua
reader. but utterly and absolutely
without foundation in fact. and tn,
DUPONT Company feels such stories
should not be repeatedly printed aftel
we have time and again given EN-
phatic assurance of their falsity.
Precautions Taken.
ut is true that the dupont Com
, pany has taken every precautiOI
against outside interference with an,
of the operations associated with tn,
manufacture Of explosives. There i,
nothing unusual about this.
"The company has guards abou
its plants always in time OF peace
not only to protect its plants but I,
protect outsiders from strolling int,
the zone Of danger. Il is to be ex
pected that this protection should b.
emphasized in the present crisis
During the war Of rebellion and th
Spanish-American war the govern
ment detailed soldiers to protect on
plants. ] would say that when w
consider the unprecedented expansion
necessary TO meet recent demand
from abroad, the necessity OF work
ing under forced pressure day an
night great numbers OF men, a larg
percentage of whom came to US a
raw recruits and we're inexperience
in all operations related to the manu-
facture of explosives; when we thin
Of the high sensitiveness and ex
ceeding infammability of the element