Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1890 — MET A FEARFUL DEATH [ARTICLE]

MET A FEARFUL DEATH

BY A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION OP POWDER. Dluittr Near Cincinnati—Half a Score of Men Dead and Many More Injured—Factories Wrecked and Burned —The Accident Due to Careleaa Railroad Men. Cincinnati, (Ohio,) special; A terrible oxplosion occurred late yesterday at King’s powder mills on the Little Miami railroad, twenty-nine miles east of this citv. At least ten persons were killed and thirty or forty inlured. Two empty freight-cars wero being rolled on to a side-track, where a car containing 500 kegs of gunpowdor was standing. As tho cats struck there was an oxplosion and immediately afterward another car containing 800 kegs of gunpowder exploded, making 1,300 kegs altogether. William Frauly, a brakeman in the service of tho Little Miami, was standing on one of the ompty cars when the explosion occurred. His body must havo been blown to atoms, although no trace of it has yet boon found. Nino other persons, supposed to be employes of the p**rder company, were killed. There wor a number of cottages occupied by workmen in the powder factory I situated close to the track. These were shattered by tho oxplosion and their inmates injured. About thirty girls at work iu the cartridge factory were crippled by tho explosion. Tho railway station and tho freight house belonging I to the Llttlo Miami railroad, together with ail tho adjacent buildings, were set on firo and totally consumed.

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