Show Casualties Havre 26A life boat rescuing a shipwrecked ship-wrecked crew in a gale capsized and the two crews nineteen persons were drowned Wilkesbarre Fa 26There were only three miners in Laurel Run mine at the time of the explosion They were found badly burned lying near a stream about a mile from the scene of the explosion ex-plosion one Wm Scoville will die London 27The coasting steamer Pdlan founded in Bristol Channel and eighteen persons were drowned San Francisco 27An explosion across the bay this morning occurred in he granulating house of the Vulcan Powder Company where the manufac turn of black blasting powder was in progress pro-gress A fire broke out in the room communicating almost instantly to the powder only a small quantity of which was in the building A blast of flame however rushed across the passage separating the granulating from the drying house In the latter about three tons of po wder was stored which at once exploded The concussion was not heavy and the windows of buildings 200 yards distant were not brogan The dry house was blown to pieces killing or wounding all the men at work there Following is a list of the killed George Stansfisld engineer H C Lamb carpenter car-penter L B Starr carpenter Thomas Mills carpenter Mr Stewart general assistant about the works and six China men Wounded Gottlieb Koch carpenter car-penter W B Dales foreman of the works Peter Schofer carpenter and Mr Ferris also a carpenter The result of he injuries of the wounded men is doubtful doubt-ful The loss of property will probably fall within 25009 |