Show TWO HUNDRED mE DIE mEIN IN WRECKED PLANT BUILDINGS BL BLOWN WN TO ATOMS TRAPPED WORKMEN MEETING HORRIBLE DEATH OJ s Rush Made for tor Safety When Warning is Given B But t Many Are Ca Caught by Deadly Gas and Flames or Meet End in Flaming Debris Pittsburg At At least men were killed May 18 when an explosion o of T. T N. N T. T demol demolished shed the the plant of tIl the Aetna Chemical company at Oakdale on the Panhandle division of the Penn lenn Jenni sylvania railroad sixteen miles mlles from fromI here I Five hundred workmen were startled at noon by a report not much louder loude than the crack of a pistol It camE came from the soda house but but they knew Its Its' Its it deadly import and as one man the they rushed for the nearest exit Before they they- could gain the open the very air all seemed to burst Into flame fiame the earth heaved and rocked and with a roar that was heard for miles the long fa fac factory faq faq- tory buildings were hurled high I into the air carrying with them ponderous equipment and scores of men A great d cloud ud of dust and tand sm smoke ke settled over the s scene ne and nd through its deadly dead fumes torn and mangled forms dropped I to earth many dead but others to meet their end in the flaming debris I The number of dead has not been determined and It Is ts possible that ItI It I may not be known for days if Indeed indeed in In- deed it ever ever will wll be be known State State and county authorities es agreed agreed that it would reach f S I Many of the Injured some of whom were found half halt a mile from the remnants remnants remnants rem rem- nants of the factory were brought to to Pittsburg hospitals by special trains trains' and In ambulances all of them so badly hurt that in only a comparatively comparative comparative- ly y few y Instances were physicians able able to hold out any hope for their re re-i covery The property loss loss' loss was estimated estimated esti estl mated at |