Show SIX WERE KILLED KI an explosion at a gun dun factory SHELL LOADER WENT OFF in the dooni were verc about a hundred fifty employ es itlane injured N uw EW HAVES conn july appalling accident occurred this morning ing in the shell loading department of the winchester Rev repeating eating fire arms aries companas comp anys shops without an instants warning ox eis human beings lest their lives by an explosion and another victim died soon afterward at the hospital pital A score of others were more or less lesa veri seriously bously injured but bat no further fati lUies are anticipated more than men and women are ara employed in the loading department and that more fatalities did not occur from the explosion seems miraculous the hundreds of people who gathered about the gates immediately after the explosion witnessed a gruesome six dead bodies blackened with powder and frightfully mangled almost beyond recognition were lying on the floor nearby near by two injured men were writhing in agony and all about were men running with their faces and arms bleeding from shot wounds unmindful of their injuries but trying to assist the injured and quell the conflagration fla owing to the number of girla girl who were carried out in a faint irig con condition ditson it was believed that many cf them were seriously injured and there was a great feeling of relief when it was found ua a ll ii i i cassa cases they were unbar aiza dead are william F baumer mrs mary baumeister mies josie joie brennan miss ida brown illian vV Vi Ilian hill mies mica tracy conroy fatally in injure jurea george Barde find and edward Barde the explosion occurred in tho the load ing room employed in this room wore were hands two thirds of them girls girla and women nearly all of the female hands are employed on the loading mae machined bines the fall complement of hands bands was at work in the room ithen the explosion took chica forty feet of the side of the building was blown biown brownout out and fragments of human bodies were scattered in every direction all available physicians the fire department the police the ambulance and hospital corps were speedily summoned harrowing scenes were enacted as the vast throng congregated about the place the victims who were alive were made as comfortable as possible and conveyed with all pcs possible sible speed to their homes two of the bodies had been decapitated eibers had bad been partially torn asunder and still others had been dismembered the winchester company aided the relief in every way john baumeister was but recently married at the time of the explosion lie he was at work but a few feet from his wife who was killed killea tile ane cause canse of the explosion has not been determined irmay it may have been due to a cartridge improperly placed in the loading machine edward Barde died after being taken to the hospital ida brown one of those killed came from detroit mich T Q G bennett president of the company pany said we have been running automatic loading machines for more than twenty years and this Is ia the first time any one has been injured in their use since bince the adoption of the machines we wa have had no accident ident in the use of black guri gunpowder mr bennett expressed the belief that through the carelessness of the operator or powder orp bo boy bov v the machine that exploded had been overcharged over charged |