Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-03-06 | Page 9 | Two Turn to Pieces by Explosion of Dynamite

TWO TORN TO PsEGES BY EXFLOSSOM OF DYNAMITE Attompt to Thaw Dynamite Sticks In Boiling Water on an Oregon Ranch Attonded With Terrible Rosults, House Being Wrecked and Ground Torn Up, BODIES OF MEN HUELED A DISTANCE DIS-TANCE OF MORE THAN 150 FEET, AND DISMEMBERED BY THE FORCE OF THE EXPLOSION EXPLO-SION TWO MEN WORKING NEAR BY ESCAPED UNINJURED. UN-INJURED. I INDEPENDENCE. Or., March 5. Two young men, Curtis Baker and Gilbert Gil-bert McCabe, were blown to pieces in the hop yard of a man named Burton, a milo and a half east of here, this- morning morn-ing from an explosion of dynamite, which was being thawed in a pall of hot water. Burton, a man named "Woods, and Baker Ba-ker were gTUbblng stumps and McCabe was a friend of Baker's, who had gone to the farm to visit. Ono hundred pounds of dynamite had .been taken along to blast the stumps with, and a portion. of this had been put in a pall of hot water. This portion suddenly exploded, and the concussion discharged the balance of tho 100 pounds. McCabe and Baker were hurled a distance of more than 150 foftL Their limbs wera torn from their bodies, which were disemboweled, and their faces were blackened and mangled beyond recognition. Burton and Woodsi who were at work a short distance away, wero unhurt, A house Blandlng several hundred yards away was almost demolished and the earth where the accident occurred Is torn up for a depth of four feet and a diameter from thirty to forty foot. Both McCabe and Baker lived In Independence In-dependence and were well thought of. LATROBE, Pa., March 5. As the result re-sult of an explosion of powder and dynamite dy-namite at the magazine of the H. S. Kerbaugh company at Heads Hill, near here, one man, Patrick Quin, was killed and twenty-one others were Injured. Jacob Squlbbs, who was In his home half a mile from the scene of the explosion, ex-plosion, was fatally Injured. Houses within a radius of a mile were toppled from their foundations and window ulass In houses twenty miles distant were broken.