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Show i ' POWDER EXPLOSION KILLS A SCORE OF WORKMEN Shock of Explosion Was Felt Twenty Miles Away, Buildings Being Rocked on Their Foundations. - Connclfsvlllo, Pa. Tho Band pow aor mills, at Falrchance, six mlloB south of Unlontown, were entirely wiped out by an explosion Saturday. Of tho thirty-two men who went to work In tho mills, nineteen aro known to be dead. Of thoso, thirteen havo been Identlflod. Besides nlno of tho factory forco who wero seriously Injured, scores of people In Uto town of Falrchance, within half a mile of tho powder mills, wero more or loss painfully Injured. Tho shock of tho oxplpston was distinctly dis-tinctly felt In Connollsvlljo, twenty miles away, buildings being rocked on their foundations. At Unlontown, hundreds of , panes of glass wero broken. In tho town of Falrchanco there Ib scarcely a houso that did not suffer dnmago. Hay stacks wcro top-plod top-plod over In tho fields, nnd livestock wero stunned. Tho rails of tho Baltimore Bal-timore & Ohio railroad and tho West. Pennsylvania Traction company wcro rooted from tho roadbed and traffic wan delayed six hours. Train No. C2 on tho Baltlmoro & Ohio had n narrow nar-row escapo from annihilation. It had lust passed tho Band mills when" tho mplnslon occurred. Tho wlndowB In tho conches wcro shattered and pas-mongers pas-mongers thrown Into n panic. |