Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1911 — THEIR HOME WIPED OUT. [ARTICLE]

THEIR HOME WIPED OUT.

W. F. Reynolds a Sufferer From Wisconsin Powder Mill Explosion. James Gilmore received a brief letter from his sister, Mrs. W. F. Reynolds of Pleasant Prairie, Wis., a few days ago, stating that their home had been completely wiped out by the big powder mill explosion there last Thursday evening, and that she would arrive in Rensselaer on the mtilk train last night. The Reynolds’ lived only £4 of a mile from the powder mills, and what happened to them can be imagined when it is remembered that the shock of the explosion was felt as far east as Cleveland, Ohio. All their neighbors, she said, were in the same fix as they, and she will remain here for a while at least, presumably until Mr. Reynolds gets things straightened out there. Dispatches from Pleasant Prairie state that the powder company will rebuild the town and settle all damages sustained by the explosion.