TERRIBLE EXPLOSIONS.
A TOWN WRECKED. FREIGHT TRAIN CATCHES FIRE. FORTY PEOPLE KILLED. SIX HUNDRED INJURED. TWELVE HUNDRED HOMELESS. Received October 16, 9.50 p.m. NEW YORK, October 16. An explosion occurred at the Dupont blasting-powder mills at Fontanel in Indiana, and was followed by two explosions in neighbouring mills. Every building in the town was wrecked. Many workmen were killed and injured. Ninety minutes later the heat of the burning mills caused the explosion of 10.000 kegs of powder stored in a magazine situated in a hollow several hundred yards away, injuring many more. A freight train on a siding near the magazine caught fire. The heat rendered impossible the rescue of many who were buried in the debris of the magazine. Eighteen mangled bodies ar-j in the morgue awaiting identification. It is feared that forty have been killed and six hundred injured. Twelve hundred people are homeless. Two churches and several school buildings were destroyed. The school at Fontanet collapsed, injuring fifty out of two hundred children. Another schoo!, two miles away, fell, burying the teacher and ninety pupils.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8558, 17 October 1907, Page 5
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179TERRIBLE EXPLOSIONS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8558, 17 October 1907, Page 5
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