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Show TEN MEN BLOWN TO PIECES. Accident Occurs in Powder House at Michigan Mine. Marquette, Mich. In one of the most disastrous explosions ever recorded re-corded in upper Michigan, ten men met instant death at the plant of the Pluto Powder company on the outskirts out-skirts of Ishpeming last Monday afternoon. af-ternoon. The explosion took place in the gelatine gel-atine powder house. Fvery man in this builddng was killed. What caused the explosion will never be known. Gelatine powder is largely composed of mitro-glyeerine, and it is supposed that the mixture was being stirred in the big crucible when the stuff let go. |