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Show EXPLOSIH Kill THREE AT BAGCliL ' ''' 1 ' : y With a din and a flash thattixmU be heard and seen for miles, the picas' mill in the black powder line 6f the Hercules Powder company at Bacchur blew up shortly before 6 o'clock" Sat- v. urday afternoon and snuffed out the lives of three powder makers. , Tlie dead,: Jamea Hanson, Fountain ' Green, Sanpete county Frank Ellin, recently of Hercules. Cat; Elmer It Hunter, who is survived by a wifeaBd , three little children near Bacchus. 7 I Hanson" an(J Ellfs ' were killed In- " Etantly, Hunter died while on his way to a local hospital. .: : -i; V,,'-, t.' Evidence ueitroyed. v When the great blast demolished- ), the press mill it destroyed, slmultan- ' !. ' ; eously, all evidence as to the cause of ; , ' ! the explosion. Hunter was picked up K ; unconscious and died .without making' 1 , a statement. Only those killed were ,near the press mill wheti it was blown 'up. - ''' ; ;', t I Property loss in the-destruction of ; i , " . the press mill will not exceed $2000, according to F. J. iMcGanney, general - sales agent for the powder company. .To guard against serious consequences r . (coming from' an explosion the entire- j ' plant at Bacchus, costing more than . .. $1,000,000, is built in lines, with Una . ; units at safe intervals. Not more than three or four men work at each unit, , ,' ' |