Show PEOPLE fLED WilD ALARM Explosion on of at Annen Germany Immediately j Followed by Panic NUMBER NUN SER DEAD UNKNOWN I I SEVERAL KILLED IN SECOND EX EXPLOSION EXPLOSION Dortmund Germany G r Nov No 29 So far fart farM t M dan c n be ascertained this morning persons were killed ninety Sl st ir w fre dangerously wound and sev several se severa eral erU era hundred were slightly Injured as a are result re U t of or the explosion last night of ot the factory near Annen AnnenA At A t the time of the explosion boxes were stored In iii the factory The each containing eighty eight pounds of ot ro I great gre force orco of ot the explosion was felt Celt as fau Iaz fa Dortmund as ten miles from the thes s of the disaster where a large number of or windows were broken On the main road to Annen all the houses were razed to the ground the bodies of ot the killed being terribly mutilated c Wild Panic Prevailed Surviving parents dragged their sleep sleeping sleepIng sleepIng ing children from their beds collected possessions and fled from the collapsing houses housos A second ex explosion occurred at 6 this morn morning mornIng mornIng ing Among the killed were the burgo burgomaster burgomaster master m and police pollee Inspector of ot the town of WItten in the vicinity of the factory The TIie manager of ot the factory was waR wounded but was able to direct the work of oC rescue which was only possible possible ble bleat at long range as two hundred hundredweight weight elgot of ot dynamite was stored In the powder rooms Caused by Fire An eyewitness of ot the disaster says that fire broke out In the fac factory factory I tory at 30 last night and that when the Krupps fire brigade from the neighboring town of ot Annen arrived at atthe atthe atthe the scene at S p m the firemen had to retire as other explosions threatened GJ W the one which occurred short shortly ly b lifter after the th flames broke out The ring Krupp rupp works were slightly damaged by b the first explosion Experts Expert declare that considering the great precautions with which the ex explosives explosives plosives were stored the disaster could only have resulted from some IOme outrage Emperor William has directed Gen General General eral cral von yon Scholl to visit Annen and Wit Witten Witten Witten I ten and has subscribed for the theof relf f of the sufferers |