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Show TORN TO PIECES BfJYNllTE Eleven Men Killed and Five Fearfully Injured as Result of an Explosion. Pennsylvania Dynamite Plant Is Destroyed, De-stroyed, the Shock Being Plainly Felt Fifteen Miles Away Frag, ments of Bodies Found Hundreds Hun-dreds of Yards Away. Lancaster, Pn. Eleven men wero blown to pieces and flvo others wero seriously Injured by tho explosion ot n dynamite plant on Saturdny near Poquea, along tho Susquehanna river. Tho accident wns ono of tho most hor-rlblo hor-rlblo In tho history of Lancaster county. coun-ty. Tho victims wero literally torn to pieces, hnrdly enough remaining ot tho bodies to make Identification possible. pos-sible. Tho cause of tho explosion Is not known. Two of tho unidentified victims vic-tims had just started to drlvo from tho place with a load of dynamite Thoy had gono scarcely fifty feet when the plant blew up with n detonation that was plnlnly heard fifteen miles away. A great cloud of Binoko covcrod tho slto of tho factory, and when II clonred away th'cro was not a vestige of the horses, wagon or men. Frag ments of human bodies wero found hanging to trees a hundred yard away. Persons living near Hio factorj began tho work of rescue, but there wero few In the plnco who had not been blown to atoms. Tho remains ol the dead were gathered up and placed In soap boxes, identification being Impossible. |