Show dynamite plant blows up W th fatal results at lou s ana mo louisiana mo three men were killed and twenty girls injured by an explosion at the hercules powder plant eighteen miles north of here saturday the three men killed em aloyes of the plant were named booth and nord and all lived in hani ahibal aibal mo the explosion occurred in ahe punching house which is equipped with machinery and the debris from this structure demolished the old punching house where a number of women and boys were at work punch lag dynamite into molds which form dynamite sticks n all of the women were slightly in aured but fortunately the building they were in did not blow up that the punching of dynamite in the house in which the explosion oci burred Is done by machinery accounts tor the fact that there were but ahrea persons in the building at the time the hercules plant Is one pt the largest dynamite manufactories in the country it produced one fourth of the output of the united states last year the plant is worth halt a million dol lars and employs persons q |