Show passenger tram passing at the time escapes without loss of life number of workmen killed is unknown connellsville pa sept 9 the rand powder works six guiles from pa blew up about 9 15 morning there were about fifty men employed at the borka and it is cared many have been killed all the telephone and telegraph wires have been blown down and communication is interrupted relief parties from connellsville and union town have left for the works it Is stated in a telephone message to fair chance that tho dead would probably be between 35 and 40 the rand powder company had alve separate buildings and employed about 45 people the entire five buildings arc said to have been destroyed six bodies have been taken from the ruins already there were two explosions plo intense excitement prevails and it js impossible at this time to set details or names among the six bodies recovered was that of mr rand manager of the plant the rescue work is absing carried on oy hundreds of willing hands in hopes some would be taken the ruins alive it is said the explosion started in a car of powder and spread to all the buildings of tho plant one of the odd features of the affair is that passenger train no 52 on ahe baltimore ohio northbound north bound from morgan town to connellsville was passing the scene at the time the explosions occurred the train was jarred tremendously and every window was broken A number of the passengers were cut by the of glass which tell about them but nobody was killed on this train but it is said that were very seriously hurt the concussion was like an earth quake to the country roundabout round about and in the surrounding towns caused great excitement which was not lessened by the tact that communication on the trolley line was broken off several miles from here later it was that manager rand was not killed but was seriously hurt the farst thing he did after being removed was to insist on being carried 0 o a telephone 60 that he could talk ta his wife in because he knew she would hear the roar of the explosion and believed that nothing else would reassure her the search tyr bodies in the wreck slow and it will oe some time before anything like an estimate of the casualties can be made it is probable that the cause of the explosion of th car of powder never will be known all the men who wore working abou at ara believed to have been blown to from this car the explosion spread to the magazine which carried with it about everything there was to iho plant ANOTHER EXPLOSION EXPECTED pa sept 9 with a report that could bo heard for a radius of fifteen miles the rand powder works located at fair chance pa blew up this morning causing it la believed over thirty deaths and considerable sid erable financial damage so far twelve bodies have been taken from the huloa and it is bald there are many other bodies sw under the debris of people have volunteered for rescue work but progress la slow and it will be soma time before tho casualties are known the explosion occurred in a car of powder and was followed a few moments later by another and heavier one when the flames ignited the large magazine the concussion of alio second ion was so great that telephone tele graph and trolley wires were blown down cutting off all communication the zona of the catastrophe the bodies recovered were burned almost beyond recognition for a mile around fair chance buildings have been blown over and at union town pa soven miles from the explosion hundreds of windows havo broken A large skylight in the courthouse at was smashed and there was a panic among the occupants to escape from the building damage was done at mount pleasant and Scott dalo and in hundreds of homes the dishes fell from the cupboards and pictures were thrown from the walla scores of people in the town of fair chance have painful injuries yot a of the ten buildings that made up the big powder works remains standing the debris Is now 04 alre and two cars of that cannot be removed arom the vicinity of the bulna are momentarily expected to go up thousands of rushed to the beccne of the explosion halt an hour after it happened union town sent hundreds ot rigs and tho surrounding country turned out en masse now they are returning fearful of another explosion from the dynamite cars that may add further terror and swell tho drath list to greater proportions JAPANESE entertained thay talked on the internal affairs of their country new apt 9 baron komura and minister takahara lra were entertained att night at a private dinner given by fellow countrymen at a fifth avenue restaurant fourteen persons were present and consul general acted as host outside of the alters none but japanese were pros bif and the speeches which continued for three hours were entirely in the tongue 0 nippon it was stated that he internal troubles at homo formed tho chief topic of discussion VALUABLE PATTERNS DESTROYED chicago 9 hundreds of valuable foundry patterns of the hanscel company were last night by firo which seriously damaged tho firms plant bauer street ind archer avenue tho machinery of tho foundry was ruined the loas is 60 with insurance |