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EXPLOSION SHOOKEARTH FOR MILES^ Magazine Near BratoilleBlw ap Rill* iag a Man mi WreeHag Buildings. SHOOK WAS DiSTINCTLI FELT HEREMany Persons Thought Natural Gas Had Rrploded While Others Were of the Opinion That an JEarthf/nahe Was Responsible,With an explosion that shook the earth for thirty miles around, th© powder and dynamite magazine of the H. S. Kerbactgh Company near Bradenville was blown np on Saturday afternoon at 6 o’clock. The magazine was located on a hill near where the Pennsylvania railroad is having a heavy cut made between Derry and Latrobe.On© man was killed, being literally blown to atoms, and a score of others were injured. 1,700 cans of powder and a car load of dynamite blew np.In the town of Bradenville, a mile Irom the scene of the explosion, nearly every pane of glass was broken and not a few houses were wrecked. The store of the Derry Coal Coke com-pauy, one of the largest in Westmoreland county, suffered a loss in , stock: of about. 12.7,000. Miners homes in th© close proximity of the magazine were overturned and most of those injured were caught while at their home preparing for the evening meal.Patrick Quinlan, the only person killed, was watchman at the magazine. Together with a walking boss* lie had been engaged in thawing out. some dynamite which was frozen. At •1:45 the walking boss was called away and 15 minutes later the explosion occurred. Nothing lias since been seen of Quinlan and the supposition is that his body was blown to atoms.At Latrobe the people were panio stricken, many believing the world was coming to an end. Nearly all the plate glass in the show windows of the stores was broken. On Sunday most of those people who were rendered homeless by the destruction of their homes, were eared for by the people of Latrobe.
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Indiana County Gazette
Indiana, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Mar 09, 1904
Page 5
Full Page
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