Show THREE MILLS BLOW UP > AWFUL CASUALTY AT SOUTH ACW i TOX MASS 1 1 < Five Persons at Least Are Killed and the Property Damage Will Be Heavy South Action Mass May 3Three mills of the American Powder company here blew up this morning one after the other in fifteen minutes Five persons are believed to have been killed The weeds close by the mills were set on fire i and burned fiercely threatening the big blS gest store house of the company containing contain-ing 20010 pounds of powder and preventing prevent-ing the saving of property Fifty men j were employed in tho mills After tho first explosion the employees in the corn ing mill about forty in number rushed frori the building and escaped before the r flames spread to the mill There were ten mills separated and inclosed by high board fences The explosion of the first mill set fire to the surrounding fence and the flames spread to the second and third j mills The list of the dead is a follows Charles ONeill jr Maynard Mass unmarried un-married Nelson Morris Action leaves R AcJon widow and several children Frederick Winslow South Action married ABates A-Bates South Action leaves a widow and six children I chIdren 2 |