Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1895 — BLOWN TO ATOMS. [ARTICLE]

BLOWN TO ATOMS.

severi'Hooiri red QaitHe eF KtfrtvGTyearla* Rxplode. Seven hundred and twenty quarts oi nitro-glycerine exploded, Friday morning, while being hauled across the river at Powell’s ford, two miles east of Bluffton. Wj ll U 1 mer, the driver, wagon and team, were blown to atoms. Only fragments ©: the entire outfit could be found. A holt sixty feet across and fifteen deep wai made in the bank of the river. Four large oak trees which overhung the site of th« disaster were broken like straws, one being hurled a distance of 100 yards Windows were brokeir in all the housei within a radius of two miles, while Muncie, Marlon and cities thirty and forty miles distant felt the shock distinctly. Between six and eight thousand peopls were on the scene during the day. Ulmer, JJhe unfortunate driver of the wagon, had been time arid again implored by his parents to givo up his hazardous work. Ail the remains of Ulmer were a piece ot the lungs, a bit of the knee-cap and small particles of clothing, and these were gives a respectable burial Sunday morning. Unrecognizable pieces of harness; horst flesh an|l : wagon were found hanging in trees a hundred yards distant. The explosive was being hatiled to the fields sot the Ohio and Indiana Torpedo Company, Whose works were ‘ d«nroy'ed 'at Mma Ohio, Wednesday, by an explosion, and this loss, together with that of tfie Lima plant, wiR seriously rripW dll operation* r for a fe.w. days. Ten thousand people visited the scene of the explosion "SuffiTSy.