Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1898 — Caused Three Deaths. [ARTICLE]

Caused Three Deaths.

Fairmont, W. Va., April 14. —An explosion of nitro-glycerin at Mannington Wednesday resulted in the death of three men. The teamsters were loading their wagons and one of them slipped, dropping a portion of the nitro-glycerin, with the above results. The four horses hitched to the wagon were blown into fragments, together with their drivers. Vincent was a pumper, 200 yards distant, and was killed by the pumphouse falling in.