Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1916 — TWO KILLED BY BLAST [ARTICLE]

TWO KILLED BY BLAST

OTHERS MISSIJMG AFTER EXPLOSIONS IN HOTEL. Guests Flee From Hostelry at Mount Holly, N. J.—Btwlding Destroyed by Flames. Mount Holly, N. .7., Dec. 29. —Two persons were killed, two are missing •and a score injured, several seriously, in a tire and explosion which demolished the Madison hotel. The fire resulted from the explosion of two acetylene gas tanks in the* basement. The building was blown to pieces and the ruins took lire immediately, imprisoning the victims amt hindering tin* rescuers. Twenty-seven persons are believed to have been in the hotel at the time of tiie explosion. The first two bodies recovered were those of Robert Snyder, son of Mrs. Robert Snyder, proprietress, and Charles Gray, bartender. Firemen are still searching in the ruins for the bodies of two negroes, believed to have been in the barroom at the time of the explosion.