Show TOWN IS WIPED OUT OF EXISTENCE c Appalling Accident in Indiana Two Score Persons Being Killed and Hundreds Injured 1 Dupont Powder Works Blown Up and a Town of 1000 People Wiped Offl t the MapFarm Houses Miles jp 1 Away Wrecked by the fL Explosion 4 = 1 Fontanel Ind Hy the explosion of he Dupont powder works on Tuesdn between twentyfive and fifty persons were killed GOO Injured and Fontanct I n city of 1000 people wiped out Tho dead and more seriously Injured have been taken away rive bundled Inhabitants In-habitants all more or less wounded remain to gather scattered household goods and sleep under tents guarded by soldiers of the state r Without warning the powder mllls seven in number blow up ut 91G oil Tuesday morning They employed 200 men and of these seventyfive were at work when the first explosion occurred In the press mill In quick succession the glazing mill two corning mills and the powder magazine = maga-zine blew up followed by the cap mill In the magazine situated several hundred hun-dred yards from the mill were stored 4000 kegs of powder The concusw < slon when It blew up was felt 200 miles away Eery lmse in this town was destroyed de-stroyed Farm houses two miles away and school houses equally distant dis-tant were torn to pieces and their occupants oc-cupants Injured Indianapolis and even Cincinnati felt the shock Al passenger train on the Big Four rally road four miles away had every coach window bioken and several passengers were Injured by llyhijS glass The mills were located one mile south of town With the first explosion explo-sion the emplo > cs ran for safety but most of them were killed or wounded by the quick following explosions in the other mills When the heat from the burning mills exploded the giant powder magazine ninety minutes later destroying the town by the concussion con-cussion many of those engaged in rescue woik were badly Injured and I several killed Supeilntendont Mona ban of the plant was killed while In his olllce and his wife and slstcrln law were killed In their home some distance away That the death list Is not far greater great-er Is due to the fact that the people of the town had left their houses at the first explosion and were not In them when the explosion of the 4000 I kegs of powder In the magazine hurled their homes to pieces and scattered household goods In heaps of debris Among the buildings totally destroyed In the town were the Methodist and Christian churches two school buildings build-ings the depot all business blocks Including o large block Just completed com-pleted u large warehouse and COO homes Governor Hanley ordered tho Terre Haute company of Indiana national guards to patrol the mined district and to protect life and property The governor arrived Tuesday evening He brought with him 700 tents and cots for the care of the homeless Three school buildings were destroyed de-stroyed nt Fontanct and Coal Bluff two miles away All were filled with school children and every one of them was more or less injured by tho collapse col-lapse of tho buildings A fourroom school building was torn to pieces and not one of the 200 children escaped es-caped unhurt though none was fatally injured A tworoom school butldlnr at Coal Bluff was turned over am collapsed The teacher and ninety pn ells were more or lens Injured Th force of the explosion destroyed III telephone communication with outside out-side towns and it was with great dlf flculty that aid was summoned Terre lion and Brazil sent physicians an nurses with supplies In carriages UM automobiles while special trains writ made up and run on the Big FoUl railroad for the CIIIO of the injured |