AMERICAN DISASTERS
EXPLOSION IN POWDER WORKS. GRAIN ELEVATOR DESTROYED. Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, September 10. (Received September 11, at 8.29 a.m,) There were two explosions at the Rand Powder Works, Unionstown, Pennsyl-
vania, on Saturday. So far twelve bodies have been recoverd, but _ thirty-five others are missing. There are scores of injured. Ten buildings were reduced to matchwood, and buildings were wrecked for an area of a mile. Windows were broken seven miles away. A grain elevator at Chicago, containing a million and a-half bushels of wheat, was destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at a miffion dollars.
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Evening Star, Issue 12606, 11 September 1905, Page 6
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