| Show DYNAMITE WRECKS V A TOWN I Hundreds of People Injured and Many Many Homes Wrecked When Five Powder Magazines Explode Pleasant Prairie Wis Five Vis Five powder powder powder pow pow- der magazines of the Nemours Dupont-Nemours Powder company containing kegs of giant powder finished kegs of or giant powder unfinished tons finished dynamite and tons of dynamite in process of manufacture exploded at the plant of the company one mile northwest of or here Thursday night One man E. E S. S Thompson a foreman loreman fore lore man is known to be dead Miss liss Alice Finch of Elgin Ill dropped dead of ot heart disease caused by fright people were Injured several hundred houses in this place were blown down and were so badly damaged as to be uninhabitable and buildings ten miles away were wrecked wreck The force of the explosion was felt more than miles from here In this town almost every house was ruined All AU night long the country roads leading to Ken Kenosha osha from this place and from the town ot or Bristol were filled with carriages and farm wagons carrying people whose homes had been destroyed The plant fortunately had been lately lately lately late late- ly closed down and only eighteen men were at work All of these escaped with minor injuries except except Engineer Joseph Flynn who was blown through a window to the roof of a powder magazine adjoining Of the people living in tn Pleasant Prairie it is believed that fully one- one half were Injured by f. f Oiling walls waIls orby or orby orby by particles of flying glass or stone It H is estimated that the damage to the plant itself and in this town alone will amount to fully I |
