Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1920 — TWO KILLED BY BLAST [ARTICLE]

TWO KILLED BY BLAST

SPRINGFIELD (ILL.) CARTRIDGE PLANT IS WRECKED. Bodies Taken From Ruins Following Fire Caused by Explosion— Four Injured. .„ Springfield, 111., June 25. —Wreckage of the Western Cartridge company plant near here, partially destroyed by fire following a powder explosion, has yielded the bodies of two men, William Dillard, 19, and William Ingram, 24. Four other workmen are in St. Johns hospital seriously and probably fatally burned. Thirty employees, including seventeen women, were in the plant when fifty pounds of powder exploded. All except the two men who perished escaped from the building, carrying the four injured, just before a second explosion came. Immediately afterward the second strainer press and four more finishing presses were blown up. Night work started at the plant last Thursday in an effort of the company to fill a contract for several million shells placed by the' antl-bojshevlk agents in this country.