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The Ludington Record
Thursday, April 23, 1896
Volume XXIX

        FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT A FIREWORKS FACTORY.
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        Dead and Injured Are Nearly All Young Girls.
        
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                 Death in a Powder Mill
        With an explosion that shook the country
     for miles around one of the buildings of the
     Chicago Fireworks Company at Grosse Point blew
     up at 8 o'clock Wednesday morning, killing two
     persons, fatally wounding two and terribly in-
     juring six others.  The employes, most of whom
     were girls under age, had scarcely been at work
     an hour when the accident occurred.  What caused
     the explosion is not and probably never will be
     known.  The girls were working briskly and mer-
     rily chatting with one another, when suddenly
     a terrible roar was heard, and the walls of the
     building, which is one of twelve similar ones,
     fell outward, while the roof came careening down,
     crushing the poor victims to the floor. A minute
     later another explosion followed, which merci-
     fully raised the roof from the dying and fainting,
     and with feeble limbs and agonizing cries the
     wounded crawled out, some of them, forgetful of
     their own awful plight, dragging the more help-
     less ones with them.  The work for the season at
     the establishment began but a few weeks ago, and
     only two of the twelve buildings were in use.
     
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