Show EXPLOSION DEALS DEATH AND RUIN Lincoln Ind md Powder Mills Blown Up From Unknown Cause FOUR LIVES SNUFFED OUT Terrible Suffering Among Injured In Injured Injured In- In Until Rescuers Come Cometo to Relief Lincoln In Ind md March 17 Four 17 Four men were vere killed and from 15 to to 20 were seriously injured today when the plant of tho the United States Powder company four tour miles from here herc was vas wrecked by byan byan byan an explosion slon The dead George Graby Peter Sim Simmons mons mong Willian Myers unidentified man The Tho tragedy trag came without an In Instants Instant's Instants Instant's instants instant's In- In stants stant's warning just after the day shift shirt had gone to work Concussion Com w lon Was WW M Heavy With a a. concussion that shook the earth for miles and which broke every window in the neighborhood one of or the thu ten tori wheel houses went up In the theair theair theair air and came down a mass of twisted t tIron iron and splinters From the tho ruins came caine the groans of ot the tho Injured who were pinned down under the debris Scores of workmen from other parts of or the plant Immediately Immediately Immedi Immedi- began the tho work nork of oC rescue re cuc The dead cad were soon known Tho The task of extricating the injured was more moro difficult Some of the In Injured Injured injured In- In men were pinioned under heavy debris and Jack screws V were re necessary to relieve relle them from the tho ht pressed their crushed bodies Injured May In Die In the meantime the sound of thee the tho explosion e brought blought aid from the surrounding surrounding surrounding sur sur- rounding neighborhood The Injured were ma made e as ns comfortable as possible and physicians were vero summoned from neighboring towns It is thought that several s-everal of the Injured will die No one was hurt In the remaining remaining- buildings and so far tar nothing definite I is known as to the cause of ot tho the ex explosion ex- ex t S |