| Show I P NII TI TOWN WRE KD K EL ELI Y PODER I Fontanet Fontan t Ind md Wiped Out of Two Score core Persons Killed a an Hun Hundreds Hundreds HunI Injured J r I I Appalling A at the Mills of the Dup nt Company Which I Blew Up in Quick Succession sion sionI Fontanet In Oct 15 By the ex ot of the Dupont powder works today t duy dllY between i and fifty tIfty persons were kV led injured d and Fontanet a city of 1000 people p plc d dout out Where boo soo s oo I 1 a and busy town this morn mori mo rg g tonight there thero is Isun Isn Tun un n and scatter II wreckage The dead nd more ly ty y injured have been away F ve ye hundred Inhabit ints ts all more or ness ess wounded remain so o 0 gather scatter id d household goods nd sleep under guarded by sol solIers so of the state Seven Mills Blew Up Without the powder mills seven peen in hi number blew lew un up at this morning They m loyed OO men and amI of these thEs t were at work when w hen the first explosion occurred in inthe the tho press mill In quick succession the glazing mill two corning mills and the Gowder magazine blew up followed by Ie 10 cap ap mill In the magazine situated ed v 4 several f veral hundred yards ards from the flie t e rant mill were stored storell kegs of powder t The concussion when it was It miles away V II Every House in Town Destroyed Fer Fery house in this town ton was de IC troyed Farm Jarm houses two miles away nd school houses equally distant distanti i ere torn to pieces and their occupants pants Jants injured Indianapolis and even Cincinnati felt the shock A er ei l train on the Big Four railroad four fourilles tilEs dies away had every coach window and several passengers were by flying glass Following Is list of the identified dead and a par lal list of the most seriously injured Identified Dead V t B Monahan general superintend nt Mrs A B Monahan Mrs Monahans sister George Georg Justice John Bobo J JWilliam William r TV z Henry Harrington Sylvester Sylester Dial DialA V VA A D P Webster Sammy Samm Nevins c Yates Will ilI Dalton George Hodge John Gray Gra Frank Dial Don Dial John DIbbs v Fred Kress John Nevins Edwa Nevins Samuel Ingalls Ingalis Frank Ingalls Ingails Miss Susie Bishop Willie Hodge aged 7 years e rs T T Kellup Wilmington Del DoJ DelThe DelThe The following died In the 5 Terre Haute H nr nry handler Chandler W lv ft E Griff Gruff Karl Wood J J Carroll Unidentified man Partial List of Injured Albert Webster leg broken Miss Grace Brannon eye put out and anel andi i alp taip Injured Elmer EhnEr Bright limbs crushed George Hodges Hod es wheelwright in mill mm General G Walker alker arm burned and in injured L 1 55 I Carroll CarrolI flesh cooked Mrs Thomas Parr scalp wounds Mrs Irs Martha Webster ebster cut on head illiam w Hodges badly burned Pittman internal injuries H M 31 r Edwards cut about head an ant ody j Mrs Rachael Montgomery Montgomer cu bout OUt head cannot recover V P McCoy scalp wounds W M 1 Sharrod hand band and feet and andody andody andody ody crushed harles Charles Nash cannot recover Willard Carroll cut about head Elmer Bright cut about face arid ad n d dody ody 1 Professor J R of E Fn n met inet t schools serious body Injuries i George Goorge Stewart seriously hurt j Miss SUs s Susan an san Bishop teacher of deal eal Mrs Irs fatally fatalI injured red Jehn Gray powder mill Alex ex Biddle Idle HarEY handier Chandler kha 10 Edwards Fred Cross ross f iward dward Cross roSa Harvey Kelso Keko L J Harris Carl arl Mr all William Walker alker James Thompson son Mrs Mis BIras RI ls Brannon Mary Iary Brannon The mills went up with three dis flU ne explosions followed ninety mm utes later fry y a fourth een cUl more se serious serious serious rious than itie others when thE maga magazines magazines sines w went UP Immediately following the explosions ons the tile wreckage took fire firc and the inhabitants h habitants of the town who rushed to the rescue of tho the mill em m fo nd themselves powerless to aid those Turning In the ruins They The worked f constant dan danger danger danger ger from 7 succeeding explosions explosions um on ot of f their ruined homes I Dead an am dying were picked up and collected I Eighteen bodies horribly burned an I mangled were carted to a protected pot to await identification while the fadly adly injured numbering up upward upward upward ward of fifty were put on a special train and an taken to Terre Haute for fOl hospital Scar ely One Escaped Injury Scared one of the 1000 inhabitants of f the to wn but carried blood on hands and face i from his own wounds or those thie of clo po had required aid The mills m in us lIs were located one mile south of town With the first explosion the employer I ran for safety but hut most of them were w ere killed or wounded py y the quick filHo fi f ing explosions in the other mills When Then the tho heat from the burn burning burnIng ing lug m ml Is exploded the giant maga Ie Ic ninety minutes later de the tile town by the concussion many If f those engaged in rescue work were adly injured and several Monahan of the tile plant was as filled while In his office and his wife wIre ud nd were killed killel in their f home some sonic distance away awa Many Barely Escaped Th t the death list is not far greater is dtp d e C to the fact that the people of ot the tow towi I I had left their houses lOuses at the first J exp slon sion and were not in them when the tho explosion of the kegs of pow powder powder powder der J ir In the magazine hurled their lion etI to pieces and scattered house holt hoh goods in heaps of or debris Among totally to J I were the Methodist and clutches chI ches two school buildings the fhe tt t all business blocks including ga galar a alar lare lar e block just completed a large largo warehouse Wil a ehouse and homes In many of th U the fronts were blown away wille WI lie in others the roofs were hurled in jo 0 space the sides blown out or they WI v Jre re left a confused mass nass of ot collapsed w lv f A Big Four railroad freight tr ti tin on the switch leading heading to the mills wiS w V 19 practically destroyed by the e ex exp ep p os Ion and the wreckage caught tire lire tireE Engineer F E Charles Wells Veils was wa badly b and received a fracture of the ther r gut leg School Buildings Destroyed Three school buildings were dc Ic def IcI I f troyed troy d at Fontanet and Coal Bluff wo miles away All were filled with chool children and every everyone one of ot them themas vas as more or les less s injured by the col apse of the buildings A school building was torn to pieces and not one of ot the children escaped un unhurt unhurt unhurt hurt though none was fatally hurt A school building at Coal Bluff was turned over and collapsed The teacher and ninety pupils were moro more or orless orless orless less injured The force of the th explosion explosion sion lion destroyed all an telephone with outside towns and it was with great difficulty that aid was wa sum summoned summoned Terre Haute and Brazil sent physicians and nurses with supplies in fl I carriages and automobiles special pe pc cial trains were made up and run on Qu the Big Four railroad for the care of the injured L Governor Hanley ordered the Terre Torre Haute company of Indiana national guards to patrol the ruined district ind md to protect life Ufe and property The gov governor gO governor arrived this evening He brought wIth him tents and cois c is fr the care of ot the homeless Company B Indiana national guard comprising forty men immediately imme on or reaching here today toda reported to Sheriff Sh rH Hors Horsle ley who placed them around the tho most damaged sections of ot 0 the city The soldiers will m act under orders from the sheriff unless Governor Gove nor Hanley y sees s s fit fil to declare martial Jaw Haw in which case cate a state military officer will he be placed in control School Building Collapsed The country school near Fontanet with an attendance of fifty country children had just been called to when the explosion occurred The walls of the building and roof col collapsed collapsed collapsed lapsed but none of ot the children was dangerously injured The teacher teach r Miss lIss Susan Bishop of Terre Terrt Haute Haut was struck by y a falling beam and seriously Injured Immediately after the explosion the four walls fell feIl outward and the t e roof reel crashed down on the crowded room Continued on Page 2 i m m m mm mm r mm BY EXPLOSION Continued From om Page Fage 1 j jI Those who had not been injure by bythe bythe bythe I the explosion rushed toward the thi pow poV powder der mill Everyone was n nAt At first no one gave heed to the wild wil exclamations excl of the little fellows who sought to attract attention to the wrecked school building Finally a few Cew hastened to the wrecked building The cries of the little ones odes could scarcely be heard above the contusion confusion caused causel by the explosion Strong arms were soon lifting timbers off the imprisoned bodies and carrying the injured away Five Died in Hospital Hospit l Terre Haute Ind md Oct 15 Of the fifty victims of the disaster cared for tor forat forat at St Anthonys hospital today four fourteen fourteen fourteen teen were in a critical condition when brought here Five them died and little hope is entertained for the recovery recovery ery ry of nine others The remainder are expected to survive One of or the se seriously seriously injured is Miss Susan Bishop a school teacher who was caught In the th collapse of the school house She sus SUI sustained tamed a fractured skull and at first it was as thought she could not recover Attendants at the hospital sail said sai she appeared to be improving Super Superintendent Superintendent Superintendent Charles Nasli Nali of the powder company is at his home hom He Is badly burned but probably will recover |
