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Show ELEVEN MEN KILLED IN PLANT EXPLOSION POMPTOtf LAKES, N .J., Dec. 5. Eleven men were killed and twenty-three Injured here late today by four explosions j which destroyed the detonator assembling building of the DuPont cap works and shoo the countrjside for miles around. Fire which followed the explosions was confined to the one unit and the properly loss wnsTsaid to be slight. Officials of the company said tonight they believed an employee at work assembling as-sembling French fuse detonators, which are- filled with fulminate of mercury, had dropped one of them. Exploding, this had set off the stock in the building which, officials claimed, contained only twenty-five twenty-five or thirty pounds of fulminate and said a few others also employed there had escaped. The company employs In all 4000 persons per-sons at its Pomp ton bakes plant. |