Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1911 — EXPLOSION SPOILS WATER [ARTICLE]

EXPLOSION SPOILS WATER

Bodies of Boat Victims May Come Up as Result of Big Blast. ™. , Ludington, Mich., March 17.—Water Id Lake Michigan has been dirty and unfit for driokihg since the explosion of the powder mills at Pleasant. Prairie, Wis., last week. /; Marine men are of the opinion that the violence of the vibrations may have been sufficient to bring to the surface the bodies of the men who went down with Pere Marquette car ferry No. 18 off the Wiscdnsin shore last falL A sharp lookout for bodies is kept all along: the beech here. ■ b An armful of old papers for a nickel at the Democrat office.