The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-09
 AT U. M. 6.
 KILLS MAN
Fate of Predecessor Tn Full ninate Loading House Overtakes Frank Bell, Who Is Instantly Killed In Inexplicable Blow-up
Victim Recently Quit Car pentry to Earn Big Wages Paid Because of Hazard
 ous Mature of His Employ ment Tn Mhnition Plant,

ouS Nature of His Employ
 ment Tn Mhnition Plant.
 Another mysterious explo- sion, so violent as to obliterate all clues to it's cause, took toll of one human life at the plant of the Union Metallic Cartridge Co this morning.
 Frank Bell, aged 80, married, of I4 Beards1eV lane, a former Carpenter, is the victim He was killed insfantly. His char red body was blown clear of the shed in which he was at work mixing illuminate, and the building itself was blown into a myriad pieces.
 The explosion occurred at s:25. Ernest Rohde, chief mixer. had been talking with Bell three minutes be- fore. Because of the danger in this occupation, thee Nompany has adopt ed a system of segresating the work men, so that, in event of an explosion, there will be only one worker in xo1ved. Bell was alone. when the explosion came. The loading house is surrounded by a high earthen ern- bankment
 Fellow workers heard the explo- sion, saw a puff of smokes and at once became panic stricken Flushing, 60fne towards the scene, others to- ward the exits from the grounds. they were soon treasured and calmed by Rohde who led the way to the scene of the tragedy. Bells body, charred and frightfuIly mang1ed, was thrown apparent that life was extinct. the body was hurried to the factory has pfta1 wheres the company physician pronounced Bell dead.
 The exeplosion is almost an exact paraIIeT to stYIat l n " Iz5cn Bel 5 pre- deceeaor. Charles Schretber. met his death last January. Schreiber's s home. was almost across the street from Bells residence Bell, car penter. gave up carpentry, to earn $1 day in the more dangerous task or mixing fllminate.
 Bell leaves a widow, a son Of five wears daughter of four years, his parents, MT. and Mrs. John F. Bell Of f45 Newfield avenue. and a sister. Miss Jessie Bell employed with the Warner Bros Co-
 Bell was well known throughout the city, having learned the trade of carpe4ter with his father, builder. He had first worked on the buildings at the U. M. c. in that capacity, but the money to be gained in the short hours Of Eliminate mixing appealed to him.
 Last. night. he had said to compan- ions in the F. R. ToothiI drug store on NewaeId avenue: "I have job for Iifegs His father also had made similar happy remarks, being under ing in the primer house rather than in the pits where the raw material is so gingerly handled
 ssI make $1O a day and it will moi be long before can put away money enough to retire for hfe,'' Bell had said to another friend yesterday. II Is dangerous work. but your sefety all restsSiP the way you handle the mix ture.''
 pitifuI sight was enacted when word of the death was gently broken to his mother. Mrs John F. Bell 145 Newfeld avenue. Becoming hystericaI the mother ran into the street and was restrained by neighbors with diff hculty.
 Bells father, a well known building contractor, was summoned from work nearby He did what was possible to assauge the grief of the stricken
 Pitifui, indeed, was the grief dis played by the young mans widow several blocks distant, who with light heart, had left to purchase groceries on Stratford avenue, returning to cook .re chiIdren's dinner when informed
 the sad termination of her seven years of married nfe-i
 Ernest Rolde, who was delegated to breaks the news to the young widow, is chief of the mixers
 Rohde, who was the. last man tc see Bell. said that when he talked with him, Bell was happy. He was ap- parent1y well versed in the work he had undertaken. Three minutes later as he stood talking to others about 300 feet distant from the scene, the house seemed to rise gently into the air, followed by shower of sp1inters puff of smoke as the frame split into myriad fragments and then de. tonation that called all those nearby to d sudden halt in Ape work
 Bell had formerly lived in the Ho1 lister Heights district of Stratford wHere he made many friends.
 The work upon which Bell was en gagged at the time of his death f termed illuminate mixing. With supply of the liquid in a long shal1ov paper dish the mixer takes it into tn small house. There on a. small marbI t6pped table he carefully pours i upon combination of ground glas and other ingredients He mixes tn whole contents of the small tureel into a paste. The art of so doing un til a arge quantity has been mad into q batter is said to rest in keepini the whole quantity wet
 Should any particle become dry when struck 1t would de4onate, carry ing the rest of the unmixed expIosiv with It Likewise the spi1Iing Of an quantity of the liquid upon the foo
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