OCR Text |
Show EXPLOSION HURTS FORTY PERSONS One Is Mortally Injured and Damage of $150,000 Done by Blow-Up of Dynamite Dy-namite in Pennsylvania. POTTSVILLE, Pa., March 5. By the explosion of 1000 pounds of dynamite in the storehouse of the Richards Colliery Col-liery of . the Susquehanna Coal company, com-pany, near Carmel today, forty persons were injured, one of them, Lewis Bowie, fatallv. The explosion caused damacre of $150,000. , 1 The dynamite house was 250 feet from the offices of the company. No one is known to have been in the houpo at the time and the cause of the explo-sion explo-sion is a mysterv. The office buifding in which the clerks were at work, the supplv house and the carpenter shops, all filled with workmen, work-men, were wrecked, most of the workmen work-men being injured by flying splinters and several sustained fractured arms or legs. The explosion made a hole in " the ground fifty feet in diameter and fifteen feet deep. Several hundred men and boys were thrown out of employment em-ployment temporarily. |