The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-01-11
THREE MEN WERE KILLED BY
THE EXPLOSION WHILE A
NUMBER OF OTHERS ARE
REPORTED INJURED.
EXPLOSION A BAD ONE
Officers State That Men Killed
Had No Right to Be in Plant
and That 1t Was Their Own
FauIt-lnquiry Started.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 10.-Three
workmen were killed and a number
severely burned early. today in ter.
rllic explosion of two tons ii smoke
less powder at Carneys Point plant
OF the DUPONT Powder company. The
force of the explosion was so great
that it lifted a ferryboat. which was
! just leaving the dock at Carncy's
Point, partly out of the water, break
ing all the windows and smashing
aprt of its cabin None of the passen.
gers were injured The report of the
explosion was distinctly heard in this
city, 25 miles distant.
! According to an employe who wit.
messed tn accident, the explosion
occurred In No. 2 wet house and No
J. , blending tower OF plant No. 2
jfholtly after midnight He declares
1t was caused by outside influence,
and II was reported that two men
with dynamite and nitroglycerine in
J their possession had been arrested.
This report, however, could not be
confirmed. Wire communication
with Carney's Point was severed by
the explosion and officials OF the com
pany in Wilmington declared they
had absolutely no advices except the
fec, that there has been an explo-
sion 1t is known, however, that re-
Gently the force of secret service
agents about the plant had been
largely increased
The plant is divided into three di-
visions numbers /, and 3. APPROX
mately 5000 workmen are em-
Dloyed and the plant was running "a
hours day. Only smokeess pow
der and picric acid, the latter an in
gredicnt of lyddite, used I'm making
shrapnel, are manufactured at these
works. Most of the structures are
one story in height, Of scantling and
covered with sheet iron
The blending tower four stories
high In which the power is sorted,
are the talle3t buildings The towers
resemble grain elevators For pr<
poses of safety, chutes extend from
each floor, down which the workmen
slide to safety in case of accident.
The wet house is where the powder
is taken after It Is mixed Here It is
dried hours and then goes In turn to
the drying house and the blending
tower
There have been several fires at
the Carney's Point plant. but this is
the first time an explosion has oc-
cured. Thirty persons lost their
lives in an explosion in the Hagley
yards Of the DUPONT Company, at
Wilminfton, on Nov. 80 last
The dead are John Walsh, Nyack,
n. Y; Richard j. Larney, Philadel-
phia; and T. Clyde Winn, address not
known
The superintendent of the plant
said the victims were employees. but
that they had no business in that
part of the works where the eXplo-
sion occurred Wire communication
with the plant was cut off by the
shock with the result that the widest
rumors prevailed for a time. The
property loss is small
One OF the reports in circulation
was that two men carrying bombs
and fuses had been arrested. H. b.
Lands. a representative of the com
pany, branded all these reports as
false. Nothing ever occurs at the
powder works of the DUPONT com
pany but that some one loads one or
two men up with bombs and dyna-
mite and puts them under arrest"
said Mr.. Lanis There is nothing to
the plot theory"