Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1918 — STATE NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hoosierdom Reported by Wire. MAN KILLED BY NITRO BLAST ——M Six Hundred Quarts of Explosive and Fifty Pounds of Dynamite Explode on Farm Near Greensburg —Shock Felt in Many Cities. Greensburg, Dec. 20. —Herbert Storms, twenty-three • years old, of Bradner, 0., of the American Glycerin company, was blown to pieces when 600 quarts of glycerin and 50 pounds of dynamite exploded on the farm of Nnqh Deshields, two miles and a half north of here. The blast rocked the country for a radius of 40 miles, shattering windows in homes for a distance of a mile from the scene of the explosion, and was felt in Newcastle, Rushville, Columbus and surrounding cities. The local telephone plant was swamped with calls regarding the explosion. Storms had just arrived at the farm from Ohio with 300 quarts of nitroglycerin which he Intended to put in the magazine. He had brought thF explosive on an automobile truck. It is believed that he dropped some of the nitroglycerin, which caused the explosion. All the houses within a radius of one mile were broken and nearly all the windows were broken. Windows in Greensburg also were broken.