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Show I TORN TO PIECES BY EXPLOSION OF POWDER 1 A7-.TON. 111.. Sept. 14. Fifteen thou-i thou-i sand pounds of powder exploded shortly ! before noon today at th Equitable Pow-! Pow-! dr work's, at East Alton, two miles from I here, killing Charles McCinnls and shock-i shock-i ing Charles McC'iSlser so that bis mind ! Is pone. The shock of the cxpolslon was i felt throughout Alton. Houses trembled. windows rattled and many people thought I there was :m earthquake. McGlnnls and his helper, worklnc In the glazing mill, was letting powder run from n drum into I a kg. McGMser was wheeling n truck I on hundred yards awa. Suddenly there ; was a flash and McGllser was blown Into the air and carried more thr.n one hundred hun-dred fet before alighted. When ho was picked up Modifier was unconscious, I and later it was found that his mind was . a blank. Parts of McGlnnlF's body were found near the mill. The cause of the ' explosion is a mystery. |