Show Invest Inquest st Op f Opens p n f fInto Into Blast at Powder r Plant Fant I d tp i r J f Regular Foreman or m n N Not t on on onty Duty ty at Time of Explosion Ex Ex- Witness Wit Wit- r ness S 'S Says y r 4 1 1 A f. f J F N that the regular i- i r fore tI the Her Hercules ro Powder Poder d c company corn com m- m pany mixing house at Bacchus was not working last last- Friday when tb the thc nitroglycerine gl c mix exploded killing kUlIns- three th ee men was was' brought out early arl In tn th the inquest which 1 convened on at Magna at nt 2 p.- p. p.m. pm m. m Monday afternoon acting m n however ivel Q S at r. r who v. v was one rie o ot of the death Victims had hod been working at the pl plant nt for the past put seven years and was wu a thoroughly experienced workman v According to th the mon mony mon i 4 Th The t inquest is being conducted b by Justice of ot the Peace P ac G. G Edward Gran Grai Grant rl th it ney office The principal witness dur dur- lug the first hour of the hearing was X N G G. Hawthorne superintendent superintendent auperin- auperin of the plant S Several ver l other workmen testified regarding the duties duties' and md the experience of ot the three threes death victims in handling high explosives d' d r 1 Eugene Ek bro Brought ro r was was was' wasa a. a new man man In the mix house but but thad I l 11 b been n d at the tho pl plant t for Cor considerable time Willard Jenkins the third victim was as not working in the thc mix Ix house but butT butas was as employed tf td truck the dr dry dope from Crom the dope dope- house to the mix house 9 e II a I |