People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1894 — EXPLOSION OF POWDER. [ARTICLE]

EXPLOSION OF POWDER.

One Man KUled and Two Others Injured at Wilkflgharre. Wilkesbakre, Pa., March 6.—An explosion occurred in the barrel house of the Mooiuc powder works. Thomas Weir was killed. Archie Diamond and Dewitt Stanton were seriously injured. The fo-ce of the explosion was terrific, nearly every pane of glass in the Moosic works was broken. Tke entire end of the building was blown to pieces, and there is danger of the remaining pail of the structure collapsing.