The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, October 19, 1907, Page 3, Image 3
Explosion of Powder Plant
Wrecks Town and Kills
Many Persons?Several
Hundred Injured.
Fontanel, Ind.,Oct. 16.?Fontanet
was prac?ioftlly destroyed
today by the explosion of the
p'atit ot the Dupout Powder
company. The dead number
from 25 to 50. Mote than 600
persons were injured and every
building in the town was wholly,
or partially leveled to the grouncV
Where stood a thriving and
busy town of 1,000 people this
'morning, tonight there i9 ruin
and scattered wreckage. The
dead and more seriously injured
have been taken away. Five
hundred inhabitants, all more or
less wounded, remain to gather
their scattered household goods
and 6leep tinder tents and on
cots, guarded by soldiers of the
State.
Without warning the powder
mills, seven in number, blew up
at 9:15 this morning. They employed
200 men and ol these 75
were at work v.hen the first ex
plosion occurred in the press
mill. In quick succession the
glazing mill, the two coiniug
mills and the powder magazine
blow up, followed by the cap
mill. In the mag: z ne, situated
several hundred"yards Irom the
mills, were stored 40,000 kegs of
powder. When it blew up the
conc?J8?iou was felt reirly 200
miles away.
Farm bouses two miles away
and school houses equally distant
were torn to pieces and
their OCCapuiiia ii'ijuiou. A p??
seuger train on the Big Four
railroad four miles away had
every car window broken and
and several passengers were injuied
by flying glass.
Killed His Father and Wounded
Another Man.
Abbeville special in the CoU
umb'a State: While engaged
in a drunken brawl at Mount
C?rmel, Tom Frith killed his
father, William Frith, and seriously
wounded Alonxo Lowton.
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Frith used a pocket knife. He
came to Abbeville and surrendered
to tbe BberilT.
It seems that the old man
Frith and his son had a quarrel
about a cow Saturday morning
in which young Frith was whip
pod by his father. Saturday
night young Frith went to his
father's house and forced his
way in with the above remits.
Lowton is expected to die. The
affair occurred in a rem -te section
of the county Saturday!
night.
Tramp in Trouble.
Rock Hill Herald : A one
arm tramp who gave his name as
7 u* /1 1:
X. X'. V?UH txjui j ui i^unn vai u'l"
na, was before Magistrate Beckham
Saturday on charge of Healing
$25 Irom a negro cabin on
the F. jley place last Thursday
night and ou account of not being
able to give a $500 bond wan
sent to jail to awaitthe approaching
term of court.
lo most cases consumption results from
a neglected or improperly treated <0 d
Fol -y'a Honey and Tar enrea tbe moat ob tinateonngh*
and prevent* serious resnlte
It costs yon no more than the on known
preparations and yon abonld insist upon
DAving the gennlne in tbe yellow paokage.
undurbnrk Pharmacy
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Federal Court Takes a Hanc
in 'Winding up Old Stat<
Dispensary.
Columbia special in Ch&rlolh
Oh<?pvor' WufJaK.il
...... i 1101 III u mine 1. riliCIl
ard, of North Carolina, hat
granted a temporary injunct'ot
aga'nst i lie State dispensarj
commission appointed hy th?
last Legislature to wind up the
affairs of the S^ale dispensary
! restraining it from disposing o
any funds now in its possession
amounting to about fcJOO.OOO,
from the sale ot stock to county
dispensary boards, until the
claim of Garrett & Co, of Wei
don, N. C , for $7,425.97 can be
finally adjudicated in the courts.
This ties up about $600,000
worth of claims due to whiskey
houses in various parts of the
| country for supplier sold the
old board of dispensary direc|
tors.
Stevens Lumber Co. to Establish
Plant in Camden.
Kershaw Era: The StevenLumber
Co. haye do-ed a d^al
with the Southern Railway Co.,
leasing their property, the
old South Carolina depot
at Camden, which they
will fit up j.s a planing mill.
Thev wilt mnvA tK.<>r
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hero but not discontinue their
planing mill at this place. Mr.
Leroy S. D mdson will be in
charge of the Camden office,
which will necesr-itate his re
mov.tl from here as soon as they
get ready for business. VVe will
reeret very much to lose Mr.
Davidson and his family as
ci'izens of Kershaw.
Negro Kills Another on
Southern Train.
Charlotte Observer: Following
heated words between Walter
McDonald, colored, third
cook in the dining car of South
em Railway train No. 34, and
Charlie W. Wethers, also colored,
a fotmer employe of the ser
vice. Wethers drew ft.juiife and
stabbed McDonald in the heart,
killing him instantly. The affair
t'^oK piaoe just oeyona the south
C trolii a line yesterday after
noon a few mi; u'es before 6
o'clock. After the killin : Weth*
era lied lo the ' baggage car and
when hard pressed by pursuers
leaped through the open side
door to the ground just as tlie
train was slowing up for Pine
ville. Thus he made good his escape,
though officers are on his
ti ail.
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