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Show 20 KILLED AND 100 INJURED IN IOWA EXPLOSION m PLANT meho; ei a dar Rapids Factory icene o. Frightful Dis-- Dis-- - jler as Night Shift RALLv Reports for ' Duty. ir:- . f r illy Hospitals Quickly li- Filled With Living Victims of Blast; Begin Search for the Dead. fclj.; lDAR RAPIDS, Iovra, Maj; 22. A j. . : of persons were killed and nearly Yf:;'.. ", atei were injured tonight by an on:ii.: ion and fire which wrecked the !.;ias starch worka and consumed IIMD rains. Tho loss was $3,000,000 to ONORE Douglas plant, in addition to dam- : caused to other property over a j 5 ; i of more than a mile. "itre were 106 employees in the fac-.('-v '. ; when (i,e explosion occurred at 'o'clock, only a few minutes after r5 ' lar force of 400 had left for home Wi " ",? "'Bt shift had reported. The l J-, istkra was heard for thirtv miles, : .;' . so severe was the concussion that "swwere jarred from their chairs c-..: " : 'j Uoeks away. it explosion is thought to have 3 due to mill dust, although the j Oft -inter of the plant believed that his fTI(l '"' exploded, hurling him from 'u' factory. , ,N; 'Hose in the building at the time, n: unidentified bodies were found ait i:. to morgues; fifteen w-ere be- 'f to be buried in the burning iisf ''"Pi forty severely injured were f :'! ln hospitals; twenty-six ware re-fil re-fil ' ."' ""d twenty were unaccount- :" Dut believed to have escaped. ;.; ADDS TO PERIL; 1 illLIANS AID FIREMEN. a k manager of the plant tonight i,Jf " ;i"lal "o one knew how many were i 'mns, but estimated the number ANS In addition to the eni- JPOVA at the plant, more than ' "tizeus were injured by flying tl'. j"11 fal"ig bricks in their homes ' . rising through the streets, cf'w , Jm broke out so soon after the T" "lat it was impossible for 1 ''""on and volunteer rescuers to , -'the demolished plant thorough! v. ? .X were caught under fall-fr fall-fr 7 mi timbers, and some of a,V .""extricated by firemen and 5, '"S,assistc,i by returned soldiers. 'ui;- ; sl'Wk was felt all over Cedar !.. j tad for milc3 around the coun. "c broke out and consumed the EARl JOSION ROCKS CITY; ; KAGE OVER GROUND. C'l extritated dead and wound-W wound-W : , ; ' 'he debris hastily to avoid in-ri in-ri uilnn Tii '') ln.iured were rushed ' a,ul homes as rapidly as 'if I automobiles could be ,'n So scver "'as the explosion i' :f ,'M'e thrown from chairs as-'- T,,! cause of the acci-Je acci-Je :;t il be determined, but is avo beeu due to either a ;t "0I'er or spontaneous com- j : in 0f UlC lmnJrc(ls of employees tlle fncar tho factory buildings c";;, s J':isl oovered the ground for !';V" 1 wreckage. Somo tvere ,,, l,e shattered buildings, while 'hi, V,1- b)' fyinS remnants. ,;', . "''If an hour twenty-five 'V irouei ,, V ln veritable show-, show-, ,., "w streets near the plant, f 4 63 aild ,lan of inanv ' , y,ne" the factory. .-!!!bjin large windows eToTT HUGE PUNT WRECKED? FLAMES ADD 11 (Continued from Page Ona.) many blocks from the Douglas plant and persons -within office building? j also suffered from the shattered glasa OVERSEAS SOLDIERS AID IN RESCUE: With the fire raging, cries were heard coming from the drying room of the plant, but firemen weru unable to cut their way in. Several discharged overseas soldiers aided iu the rescue work. Additional explosions from the oil rooms scattered the burning wreckage and firemen were hard pressed to prevent pre-vent the spreading of the flames to nearby industries. ' Men covered with starch were taken from the ruins by their comrades, and many thrilling rescues were made. Some of tho victims were stark mad and did not know what had happened. Ono workman, his head covered with his own blood, insisted that he was not hurt and that his rescuers should allow him to go Uick into the firi where it was warm. WatcJ mains were cut by the force of the explosion, making the work of the firemen harder because of the lack of water. An engineer who was blown out of the building said he believed his boiler had exploded. The front of the city hall and -the Y. I. C. A. building were shattered. Ticket sellers in moving picture theaters the-aters ivere injured by falling glass. The Red Cross established first aid stations sta-tions rear the wrecked plant for the injured as they were brought from the wrecked plant. J. D. Boorman of Chicago was blown through the window of a hotel and suffered suf-fered cuts and bruises. Frank Sodoman was taken out of the plant alive. His legs were blown off. He begged the crowd to kill him. C. C. Craft, member of the fire department, de-partment, was seriously injured. |
