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Show CAUSE OF EXPLOSION AT EDDYSIQNE MUNITIONS PLANT Head of Company Unable to Account for Disaster in Any Other Way Than Act of Some Malicious Person or Persons. CHESTER, Pa., April 11. That the explosion at the Eddystone Ammunition plant yesterday which cost 1 1 6 lives was the result "of a diabolical plot conceived in the degenerate mind of a demon in human guise" was the assertion of a high official of the corporation today. This official said that an investigation, concluded this afternoon, had shown that a bomb manufactured from a shell in the plant by one of the employes had caused the disaster. CHESTER, Pa., April 11. With 122 dead and between 125 and 150 injurod, the majority girls and young women, tho authorities today turned their efforts ef-forts toward placing tho blamo for tho explosion yesterday at tho plant of the Eddystone Ammunition corporation. Alba B. Johnson, president of tho Baldwin Locomotive works, which owns the Eddystone works, asserted the disaster probably was duo to an accident or carelessness. Explosion Not Accident. Opposed to this was the signed statement state-ment of S. M. Vauclain, head of tie munition company. In which he said: "Wo aro unable to account for tho explosion in any way other than the act of somo maliciously Inclined person per-son or persons." Police Refuse to Talk. While the police refused to discuss tho caso of two suspects nrrested horo late laBt night after an Investigation, It was Intimated that valuable Information Informa-tion was secured from papers found on ono of tho prisoners. Tho men under arrost, father and son, the latter giv ing a Philadelphia address, aro Bald to be aliens. Although police and company offl- clals worked through tho night attempting at-tempting to establish identities of tho, dead, thoy wero hampered by tho condition con-dition of tho bodies. Somo of tho victims, vic-tims, company officials believe, wore blown Into tho Delaware rlvor, so that an exact calculation of tho death list may never bo possible. President JohnBon Changes Mind. President Alba B. Johnson of the Baldwin Locomotivo works, changed his theory that tho explosion was duo to an accident after a visit to tho plant. Ho now agrees with Samuel M. Vauclain, prosident of tho Eddystone Ammunition corporation, that plotters caused tho explosion. "Although we have only circumstantial circumstan-tial ovldenco," Mr. Johnson said, "it lookB as if somo ono touched off a bomb or a time clock with an explosive explo-sive attached. I am convinced! after a talk with tho Eddystono officials, that tho catastrophe could not have occurod through an accident" Tho Chester police have released two suspects, father and son, named Cohen, arrosted last night Tho Chester Ches-ter police say that If the explosion was the work of plotters, whoever cnused it must have died with the rest. |