Show A PREMATURE BLAST antal accident and explosion at brinton pennsylvania pittsburg april 7 twenty tons ot rock and dirt hurled into abo air by a premature ore mature blast of powder at brinton pa today buried and killed three men severely wounding four others and braised and cut ten the dead are all austrian laborers and are nick mike antonion bossar the injured are owen dugan foreman of brinton married abdull fractured face severely cut and eye injured david livingtone cut about the face ahou and legs big mike an austrian eyes badly injured and face burned an unknown austrian leg and arni broken and face bruised the accident happened in the face of tho hill close by the new westinghouse works at brinton the contractors gwinner co of allegheny were blantine bla stine the earth end there for filline the foundations of the new build inns owen dugan the injured foreman was in charge ot a gang of six laborers working on the hillside he bad charge of the blasting A charge of power with a little dynamite had been put in the charges were all set off by an electric battery the men began digging to put in a fresh of powder on top while dugan and three assistants were working at the top of the bank the went off ten feet below the gang was working and the explosion sent the rocks and dirt loosened by the charge down on them the men were banic stricken and could do nothing the americans about the works came hurrying up and directed operations digging under foreman malone was begun and in half an hour three dead men had been taken out bruised and suffocated beneath alie boulders foreman had all the debris turned over seeking for other dead but none were found |