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picked up by relic hunters during the \ afternoon. The explosion had torn o!V seme or the iron shoes, extracting the i nails as neatly as a blacksmith could have done it.Fort lived in Knights town where the factory of the glycerine company is located. He was ahont 45 years old and married. He had been hauling glycerine for the company for six years. He left the factory Saturday night., with nearly S00 quarts of the explosive in his wagon and reached the magazine about 11 o’clock yesterday morning. Forty minutes later the explosion occurred. Its force was felt for miles around Summitsville. El wood. Marion, Jonesboro. Gas City and Kokojno were shaken. The home of Alva Paine had all its windows broken, and members of the family thought an earthquake had occurred, and ran from the house. In the city, a meeting of union labor delegates was being held in a hall. The concusion rocked the building and the delegates thought it would tumbledown on them. A number of plate glass windows were broken in this city.A mile from the Empire magazine is located the magazine of the Indiana Nitroglycerine and Torpedo company. Kteve Clark, a shooter of torpedoes, had Just left, the Indiana magazine when the explosion occurred, and he was thrown to the ground. It is surprising that the concussion did not touch oft' the explosive or the Indiana . store house.Hundreds of people flocked to the scene during the day and searched for pieces of Fort’s clothing. One found a portion of one of his gums, in which : the teeth still clung. Three quail were found near the place. The bodies ' of the birds had been stripped of '
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Logansport Journal
Logansport, Indiana, US
Tue, Feb 05, 1901
Page 1
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