Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1908 — NINE BLOWN TO ETERNITY [ARTICLE]

NINE BLOWN TO ETERNITY

Two Victim* of a Powder Magazine Blast Are a Mother and Her Babe. Cleelum, Wash., July. 17.—An explosion in the powder magazine of the Northwestern Improvement company, near here, killed nine persons and seriously injured a number of others. The killed are: George Mead, manager of the Northwestern Improvement company store; Gilfqrd McDonells and Andry Grill, clerks; Mrs. Perry Moffatt, wife of a brickmaker; infant child of Mrs. Moffatt; Joe Rossi, and Joe Pogrlappi, miners; two miners, names unknown. Shortly before 5 p. m. Manager Mead and the clerks from the store went to the powder house to assist in unloading a carload of powder. llow the accident happened is not known. Mrs. Peter Moffatt, wife of a brickmaker, was living in a tent near the magazine with her two children. The tent was blown to pieces and Mrs. Moffatt’s body hag not yet been found. Fragments of bodies were scattered for half a mile from the magazine.