Mt.
Union, Pennsylvania
Aetna Explosives Company Plant Explosion
September 20, 1916
FIVE KILLED IN BIG EXPLOSION
Aetna Explosives Company Plant at Mt. Union,
Pa., and the Scene of Terrible Catastrophe at
Early Hour Today.
NO CAUSE IS GIVEN
International News Service
HUNTINGDON, PA. Sept. 20. ----Five men were
killed and another sustained probably fatal
injuries when a terrific explosion wrecked the
Air dry building of the Aetna Explosives Co.,
east of Mt. Union, early this morning. The dead
and injured were all employed in the Air Dry
building and pieces of bodies were hurled in all
directions.
The Dead
Clayton Clark,
Shirleysville, Pa.;
George Scayer, William Pyles, Chas. Bard,
all of Orbisonia and
Steve Olsch,
Lancaster, Pa.
The Injured
William Leman,
Portage, Pa., taken to Huntingdon hospital on
special train. Condition critical.
The cause of the explosion has not yet been
determined and probably never will be, in as
much as Leman,
the only survivor, is fatally hurt. The blast
rocked houses for many miles around and brought
persons out of their homes with a rush. The Air
dry plant was completely wrecked. Sections of it
being hurled for several hundred feet.
Indiana Evening Gazette, Indiana, PA 20
Sept 1916
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