New Britain herald., 1915-12-01
ANOTHER EXPLOSION
 AT DU POINT PLANT
No One Hurt and Property Dam-
 age Was Slight
THIRTY KILLED YESTERDAY

Disaster-Detectives Running Down
 Reports.
 Wilmington, Del, Dec. 1.-There was a small explosion of smokeless powder early today at the Du Pont Powder plant at Carney's Point. N. J., across the Delaware river from this city. No one was hurt and the prop erty damage was slight, company off, cials say. The officials said the eX- plos1on was what is called a flare up' in blending mill These it was explained, are of frequent occurrence and could be ascribed to different causes.
 There have been no more deaths among the five injured in the Hagley explosion of yesterday. It is feared, however, that several of them will die. Louis Booker, who died in a hospital last night, making the death list thirty, left wife and eight children.
 No Statement From Company.
 No statement was forthcoming from the company today as to the possible cause of yesterdays disaster.
 
 charge of such parts of the bodies of the victims as could be gathered. La ter he will summon jury and a for mai inquest will be held.
 Difficult to Get Names.
 Difficulty was experienced in mak- ing an authentic list of the dead, be- cause many of the men were known by number only and some had como to Wilmington to work only recently The list of names given out by the Company was taken from the pay rolls.
 Every employe who was near the building that was destroyed was put through a thorough examination but without throwing any light on the mystery. Not one of the twenty-six men who were in the pellet packing house escaped and there is now only big hole in the ground where the building stood.
 The investigators admit that there is but little possibility of the responsi- bility ever being placed and company officials, while declaring that nothing would be left undone to determine the cause of the explosion, stated that they were without a thread on which to base their hopes that it's origin ever will be ascertained.
 Plant We'll Protected.
 Charles B. Landis, an official of the Du POnt company. gave out state ment today in which he said that every precaution had been taken to protect the Du Pont plants and that these precautions had been redoubled with the receipt of war orders. "Our szs. der the direction of Major Richard w. Sylvester, former chief of police of Washington, and he is in charge of the company's secret service.
 The whole thing is an absolute mystery. Not @ man Is living who was in or even near the packing house when the accident. occurred and we seem to be without the means of even starting an investigation"
 Running Down Every Clue.
 Reports that notices had been found nailed to trees and fences leading to the Du Pont plants at Upper Hagley and at Carney's Point warning en- ployes of Teutonic origin that they would imperil their lives by contin- uing to work at either place were re- ceiving the attention of the big force of detectives working on the case to . day. These reports were discredited by the investigators and officials of the company alike but in order to leave no stone unturned it was decid- ed to run down every possible clue. After the reports had gained consid- erable circulation several days ago the company made a thorough invcs- tigation but declared they had found absolutely nothing to substantiatc them.
 Men accustomed to travel the roads in the vicinity of the plants were said to have seen the notices upon several occasions but stated they had remained in position for only a few hours at 8 time. The notices &C., cording to one of these men, read as follows: Americans lost their lives with the sinking of the Lusitania did so after due warning. All men of Teutonic origin are hereby warned that If they continue in the employ ment of the Du Pont Powder con- pany they will do so at their peril and will be taking their lives inthe1r hands"
 Widely Credited Theory.
 The theory that is most widely cred ited is that the explosion was caused by a spark from a horseshoe striking a stone or piece of metal or from spark caused by small car run- ming over some powder that had been spilled in the yard. But slight hope Is held our for the recovery of the six injured men who were taken to hospitals.