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Hammond, Indiana
Economical Smokeless Powder Co.
Explosion
May 21 1898
Hammond,
Ind., May 21. --Three thousand pounds of
powder at the plant of the Economical Smokeless
Powder company blew up this afternoon, killing
one man, injuring three others and demolishing
the building in which was located the mixing
room.
The
dead:
Arthur L. Booth, Chicago
Seriously injured:
John
S. Piper
Frank
Halse
Carl
Porter
The plant had been running only three days
and was about to begin work on a government
order for 35,000,000 cartridges. Officers
of the company are unable to determine the cause
of the explosion.
The Daily Review, Decatur, IL 22 May 1898
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