Show EXPLOSION AT POWDER MILLS MIL S Score of ot Workmen to Have lost Their Lives SEVERAL OTHERS INJURED LOSS HALF A ALION MIL MILLION 4 LION DOLLARS i Pa Sept Sopt 9 CONNELLSVILLE C Th The R Band nd powder POder mills at Fair Fairchance chance chaise six miles south of o Union Uniontown town towi were entirely wiped out by an explosion today Of the men who went to work wok in the mule mills nine nineteen teen teon toe are ue known knorn to be dead Of these thee the e thirteen have been Identified Dead and Missing M of ot dead and minin follows Fred Pred VAt jr McIntyre died at Albert Woods O 0 M lt t Humphries George Ger Llewellyn Harry Underwood dl l at Elmer Hughes Hughea Clyde Clyd Woods Wooda t James Jamee JaB Br on it i George Mai Martin tin Charles Barclay Gilbert Mitchell MitchellA A Gribble Fred Pred r rCharles sr at r Char Charles Charlo 1 OB Fritz Pritz William Llewellyn oi Isaac rac Metca f fOmer Omer Orner Swaney Scores Injured nine of oC o the factory force who were seriously injured scores of people cople 1 copleIn in the town ton of within half halt halfa a Jl mile mU of the toe powder mills were more or lees le li painfully Injured The shock sh ck of the explosion was dis distinctly is felt in Connellsville 20 O miles mUes away aay buildings being locked rocked on en their foundations At Uniontown hundreds of panes ot of glass were broken In the theton town ton of there Is h a ahouse ahou ahouse hou house that did not suffer damage e Hay Haystacks Haystacks stacks were copied t over in the fields and livestock wet were a stunned The rails of or the Baltimore Ohio railroad and the West Pennsylvania Penn lania Traction com corn l pany Wn ny w were ere rooted from the roadbed and traffic was wu delayed dela ed six hours Train No 53 55 on the Baltimore Ohio had a nar narrow narrow row 10 escape from annihilation It had just passed the Rand mills when the explosion occurred The windows in h the Miches raches were shattered and passengers pas engers I thrown into a panic A street car on the West Vest Pennsylvania Penn railway had also I passed a few ie seconds before the explosion ion and ald was fAt far enough away to es escape escape escape cape damage though it was vas derailed Were Seven Explosions There were seven seen explosions in all Every Everyone one of the ten buildings was to totally tally taUy demolished The debris that was wa DiY over ovi tu th screw acres of or ground Around where the ilant was located took t ok fire soon after aner the explosion and added its terrors to the disaster The Th first tiNt three plo pl were not as sri s as the four Then the packing house pressing pr Yb room and sil cl blow bl up Ul followed by two to eirk cyk of d mlle Many of the survivors had thrilling ex cx 1 Orrville Swaner was WitS work wort nor noring Ing in in the glazing room anti and had gone out for a drink k of Water wate ate He was just outside when the mixing mill went ent up The rhe explosion threw him high hi h in the theair theair air ail but hut he landed on his feet teet in a net netWork network Work of fallen wires Dodging fledging these he Sped ped around the hill hili end was fifty feet I Ia way away a when the second explosion threw I him on his hili face He lay there stunned 1 and knew nothing of the terrific blast that came when the storage magazine went ent up A half halt hour after the explosion ion be he was picked un U and carried to a II place of or safety fety AH AU da de d at short inter intervale intervale vale searchers would bring in bits of bodies or 01 clothing Some of these were Mere ere I I earned carried in dish dl h pans or damaged pow pon ponder po powder der cans Most of the Victims Single SingleA A majority of the dead men wore were ere single although h several of them leave families When the bodies were ele recovered the i work of identification was very ery diAl cult The hole where the magazine ma exploded I ed is about fifteen feet dee deer and fifty yards square quare I Conservative estimates place the loss lo a ato I to the Rand at several hun hundred hundred hundred dred thousand dollars collars Thee There are ate also extensive exten losses to private houses and buildings in all AU surrounding s o towns I |