A TOWN BLOWN UP.
I POWDER MILLS DISASTER. FORTY KILLED AND.OOO INJURED, [TWELVE HUNDRED RENDERED HOMELESS. SCHOOL BUILDINGS COLLAPSE. Received Oct. 16, 9.50 p.m. New York, October 1(1.
An explosion at the Dupont blasting powder mills ot Fontanet, Indiana, followed by two explosions in ne : gliboring mills, wrecked every building in the town, and killed and injured many workmen.
Ninety minutes later, the heat of the burning mills caused the explosion of 10,000 kegs stored in a magazine situated in a hollow several hundred v.irds nway, injuring many more. A freight train, on a si.ting near the magazme, caught fire. The heat rendering it inipir-sibln to carry out rescue work, many were buried in the debris of the magazine. It is feared -10 have been killed and t-00 injured.
Iwi he hundred have been rendered Homeless.
Two Churches and several school buddings were destroyed. A school at Fontanet collapsed, injuring a() out of 200 children. Another school, two miles away fc'l burying the teacher and ninety pupils.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 17 October 1907, Page 3
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167A TOWN BLOWN UP. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 17 October 1907, Page 3
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