People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1893 — FOUR MEN KILLED. [ARTICLE]

FOUR MEN KILLED.

Terrible Result of the Explosion of a Powder-Mill at Pittsburg, 111. St. Louis, Aug. 9.—At 1 o’clock Tuesday afternoon two small buildings belonging to the Phoenix Powder company plant at Pittsburg, 111., 9 miles north of "here blew up. The list of deaths is as follows: Luther Erde, John Elliott, B. Hickman and Charles Malley. The disaster was caused by the breaking of a shaft in the stamp mill, which produced sufficient friction to ignite the powder. The loss is not accurately known, but will be mamly on machinery worth about $3,000.