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Show Dynamite Plant Blows Up, With Fatal 4 1 Results at Louisiana, Mo. Loulslann, Mo. Threo men wore! jjj .killed nnd twonty girls Injured by nn I .explosion at tho Hercules powder ' plant, eighteen miles north of here, Snturday. Tho throe men killed, employes em-ployes of tho plant, wero named Booth., Wright nnd Nord, and nil lived In Hnn-J Inlbnl, Mo. Tho explosion occurred In the punchliiB-houso, which Is equipped, iwlth machinery, and, the debris from, this structure demolished the old! punc'hlng-hou'so, whore a number of" women and hoys wero at work punching punch-ing dynamite Into moUls which form dynamite sticks. All at tho women wcro slightly In-Jurod, In-Jurod, but fortunately tho building they woro In did not blow up. That tho punching of dynamlto In tho houso In which tho explosion oc-( curred Is done by machinery account for the fnct that, thero wero but three., porson s In tho building at the time. Tho Hercules plant Is ono of tho, largest dynamite manufactories in th country. It produced one-fourth of tint' butput of tho United States Inst year. The plant Is worth half n million doN Inrs and employs 200 persons. |