Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1914-10-09 | Page 6 | Four Killed and Many Injured |

Type	issue
Date	1914-10-09
Paper	Mt. Pleasant Pyramid
Language	eng
City	Mount Pleasant
County	Sanpete
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title	Four Killed and Many Injured
Type	article
Date	1914-10-09
Paper	Mt. Pleasant Pyramid
Language	eng
City	Mount Pleasant
County	Sanpete
Page	6
OCR Text	Show Four Killed and Many Injured. Jersey City. Four men were killed and forty injured Saturday by an explosion ex-plosion of the powder magazine on the fireworks manufacturing plant o( Detwiller & Street company on the Hackensack meadows just outside the city. Windows were broken a mile away. Of the 150 men usually employed em-ployed at the plant, approximately half were on duty Saturday. The plant consisted of a dozen or more small buildings scattered over several sev-eral acres of ground at distances of forty feet or more apart. The explosion ex-plosion occurred in the drying room. Twenty-one persons were taken, to hospitals within an hour, some of them believed to be mortally injured. John Andrews, superintendent of the plant, was placed under arrest.
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