People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1893 — RUIN AND DEATH. [ARTICLE]

RUIN AND DEATH.

An Explosion of Na pt ba Demolishes a Brooklyn Factory and Kills Four Men. New York, July 21.—Late Thursday afternoon a can of naptha exploded in. the sweat-band factory of J. D. Campbell, No. 211 Walworth street, Brooklyn, killing four persons. They are’ J. D, Campbell and son Samuel, John Weiss and Jacob Weiss. Matthew Dering was badly injured. The building, a two-story frame structure is a complete wreck. There were twelve persons employed in the factory All excepting the five named were in tue basement and escaped without iniury.