Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-05-15 | Page 1 | Ten Men Killed in Explosion

TEN MEN KILLED I IN EXPLOSION Skilled Mechanics at Detroit, Mexican Rubber Factory Lose Lives. GASOLINE IS CAUSE One Body Blown Through Building Others Burned Beyond Recognition Plant Destroyed. I Detroit May 15. Ten men were kl ' d . nd three injured in an explo sion ttiffej forenoon, which blew tli plant oi the Mexican Crude Rubber company to pieces. There wore nbout 25 employes In the plant. Eleven survHors have been accounted for. Gasoline is believed to have caused the explosion Mu:'. of the victims were skll'e'l mechanics. One body was blown through tlv building. Three oUioi1 bodies were burned beyond recugni tion. Tnree men were removed to a hospital and phsicians said they did not expect any of the men would survivi I r. 7 r. , s of windows in buiid-IngS buiid-IngS near the rubber company's plant w'ere .-shattered. No Official Report. There were several reports as to the cause of the explosion but survivors sur-vivors raid a vat containing a largo quantity of molten rubber exploded Officials of the company declined to issue a -tatement until they conducted conduct-ed an investigation The plant, a one-story concrete building in West Detroit, was almost obliterated Flying eaunW of sub-stance sub-stance riddled adjoining buildings and heavy concrete bhjChe wet -found more than two blocks fMBUthe scene of the cxplonioti The i:u tur uf the Commerce Mo tor Car company, itboirl 100 feet-from I the rubber concern, wa-( -badly damaged.