Explosions in Powder Mills. Soma Narrow Escapes—Why One Man Left the Business. A writer in the New York Tribune, who began life as an employe in a pow der mill, says: Oue who has never looked upon the scene after a heavy mill has exploded cannot imagine the destruction involv ed in the immense force exerted by a ton or two of first-class powder. The firet explosion after my connection with the works occurred in the packing house where the powder was being put in kegs for delivery to the government. - It took place about 7 o'clock on a short December morning, just as I was eat ing my breakfast. A pane of glass ffrcm the winoow six feet away sudden ly slapped the side of my head, and at toe same time I heard and felt a tre mendous report and heavy jar which made me think the world was coming to an end. Running out of doors 1 saw a heavy column of smoke shooting np in the air; all the tree tops in the vicinity of the building were full of burning powder bags which gave the soene a strangely weird look in the twilight of a dismal winter's morning. The only occupant of the mill was blown into a thousand pieces, the larg est bit found being his left arm. These relics of poor humanity were scattered around in the woods for fully half a mile from the mill. At night when the coroner arrived to hold an inquest ho asked for the corpse. Some one silent ly pointed to a peach basket placed on the stone wall; it was full of small piec es of flesh and bones, all that was left of a stalwart man. The victim's wife and daughter were in the house he had occupied not oyer 200 feet from the mill; the house was racked to pieces, but neither received a scratch, and the horse in the stable beside the house was found roaming around the yard un harmed. The next explosion that I witnessed took place at noon of a July day. The hay in the yard about the mills had been cat and eight or ten men had been working around the corner mill all the forenoon drawing the hay away to the barn. At noon they went to dinner, and while they were eating the mill ex ploded, killing only its regular attend ant. If it had occurred either an hour earlier or later eight or ten lives would have been lost. The mill stood on the bank of a pond about two acres in ex tent. The explosion forced the water completely out of the pond and over the dam, leaving nothing.but the creek rnnning through the centre. Where the building had stood a pit was dug large enough to hold a two-story house. At one time a man was discharged from the works for neglect of duty. A fortnight after he met oue of the em ployes in the village near and question ed him as to whether the men who worked at night were changed at the same hour as formerly. He was an swered in the affirmative. That night about 11 o'clock I was awakened by a violent pounding on the door and a voice proclaiming that' tbe office was on tire.' This building stood on a rather steep hill near. It was a combination of office and carpenter shop, and was used on occasion as a storage house for powder when other places were full. On hearing the cry of fire I pulled on my clothes —in my excitement getting on two vests—and started out ot the bouse, picking up a pail of water on my way. At the gate I met the foreman,a tall lank Yankee. 'That's right,' said be, 'hurry.up and follow me.!' He threw himself against the door and burst it open. There was the fire flam mg in one corner of the carpenter shop. A pile of shavings had been raked up and !set on fire apparently with a slow match. As we entered the fire began to gather headway and burned up brightly. At that moment I hap pened to think that there were about two hundred kegs of powder stored in the room directly over the carpenter Bhop and that the floor between consist ed only of loose boards laid down on the beams I My courage came near leaving me and I shouted to the fore man, who was before me : 'For God's sake, come back I There's powder o verhead !' % I know that,' said he cool ly, 'but we must put out the fire. 'Tak ing off his coat, he threw it oyer the shavings and Jhrew himself full length on top of it. At the same time he call ed out to me: 'Now throw on the wa ter!'and I did it, thoroughly drench ing him and checking the flames mater ially. By the time the other workmen came running up the fire was out. Turning and grasping me by the hand the brave Yankee exclaimed : 'I would not have entered this building in the face of such danger as threatened us for all the company is worth if I hadn't thought it was my duty.' Examination showed that the office had been robbed of seyeral costly rifles and other things, and then the fire was started to h ; de the erime. Several days after the em ploye who had met the discharged work man on the day of the fire happened to remember about his interview with;him and reported it. Two or three other auspicious circumstances were recalled, he was arrested,and all the stolen goods found in his room. He had robbed tbe office and set fire to the building in ie venge for his dismissal, little thinking and perhaps little caring how many liyes might have been lost in conse quence. If the fire had not been dis covered at its start and had communi cated with the powder,the result would have been terrible to the whole settle ment. Tbe criminal was sent to State prison for seven yeais. The last explosion I witnessed, and the one which finally led me to leave tbe bills, has a little ghost story con nected with it which makes the incre dulous laugh, but which nevertheless occurred just as I tell it. One evening in June I started for homo about 10 o'- clock. It was a bright moonlight night and a warm one, and my road lay along a narrow causeway and oyer a bridgo between two large ponds. The water looked inviting, and T concluded to take a swim all by myself; so 1 undress ed'aud plunged in. I bad fihished my bath and was dressing to go home when I happened to look in the direction of one of the mills, only a part of the roof of which was visible from where I stood. As I 'ooked at the mill I saw resting on the peak of the roof ami far ing directly toward me something that looked exactly like a human skull that had been coated with phosphorus and was all atlume. The empty eye sockets and the grinning jaws gave it a decid edly "hair raising" appearance, and I felt my heart going down toward my shoes in a decidedly lively manner. I stood and looked at it for fully ten mn utes, not knowing whether to run or to stand my ground ; I dared not go into the yard if I had felt inclined, as it was against the rules for those not 011 duty to enter. I finally went home, leaving the hideous object still glaring at me in the bright moonlight,and need less to say in a very unsettled state of mind. The next morning just as 1 sat down to breakfast there came a fearful explosion which shook the plaster off the walls of the room and jammed one of the window sashes behind me over my head, breaking the glass all out of the sash and nearly stunning me. 1 jumped to my feet and started toward the door when there came another shock from another mill which had caught fire from the first The mill where I had seen my "ghost" and to which I was going as soon as I had fin ished my breakfast had exploded and ignited the second mill. The occupant of the first mill was torn limb from limb. I had been working with him the day before in another part of the yard and had said to him: 'I wouldn't work in your mill for all the company is worth.' 'Oh, pshaw !' he answered, 'I would rather work there than any where else*' That was the last I saw of him until I found his disfigured re mains the next morning. As for my "ghost" I have no explanation to offer. I haye never seen one since. Although a firm disbeliever is supernatural appa ritions in general I have always looked upon it as a warning of impending dan ger on that occasion. ADVICE TO nOTIIEBN, Arc you disturbed at night and broken of your rest by a sick child suffering and crying with pain of cutting teeth ? If so, send at once and get a bottle of MRS. WINSLQW'S SOOTHING SYKCP FOR CHILDREN TKETUING. Its valno is incalculable. It will relieve the poor little suf ferer immediately. Depend upon it, mothers, there is no mistake about it. It cures dysentery and diarrhoea, regulates the stomach and bowels, cures wind colic, softens the gums, re duces inflammation, and gives tone and energy to the whole system. M its WINSLOW'S SOOTH ING STRI P FOR CHILDREN TEETIII NG is pleasant HO the taste, and is the prescription of or.e of the oldest and best female nurses and physici tns iu the United States, and is for sale In all druggists throughout the world. 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The broad road to fortune o pens before the workers, absolutely sure. At once address, TKUB & Co., Augusta, Maine. GUNS! GUNS, B HE EC II LOADERS, from SI.OO for a single shot gm., up to SIO.OO. DOUBLE B. L. SHOT GUNS, from sla.oot for a good serviceable gun. to $.15.00 for something extra. REVOLYERS, from #I.OO up to SIO.OO. WINCHESTER KIELES, Model '7.1, Central Fire $17.00 '7O, •• •• twenty eight inch barrel SIS.OO Muzzle hading shot < tins from $2.50 for a single gun,s.*>.so for ;t double ; im, l^sinNtrrAOKi.K! SETXETS, T Heaps, S Hoops $2.25. THROW XFTS, .H.j feet Fl .V R J A PA .Y ESE HAM TOO VOLES, for 2i> els. each. JOIXTED HODS. 25 et*. A tine nsortment of LIXKS ftxnn 1 cent to sl. Also an immense assortment'of HOOKS, loose and s..riled. Fine Hot is, Eishinij J las fee Is, Lenders, Flics, Arf ij/cial Baii Ferrules. llccls, <\V., >m 5 cts. for good ordinary K, to 15 cts. for tine Silk K. lianjo Strings. best, 10 cts. each. J lass Vial and Cello Strings. AW My line of string a cannot be excelled iu this State, for Price and Duality. Orders by mail receive prompt atten tion. Ajsßepairlug of fine Guns a specialty. THEODORE DESHNEB, Prop. Great Central Gun Works, Bellefonte, Pa. Aj-Seiul for Price List and illustrated cata logue, containing Game Laws of Pennsylvania free. 'iteSi3sSO vAI <*•:*! *2 .'J i i.'j t:i rJl*J 2. i)i ! - • •* V . b (Wig -V- .) :u ii *■< .. • ** % . L A •V - f \V - f -[ **~* -I *•* Ptrr] TZte, F• - { A • " * \ < tiUit o I Os . V -.. v F *r T : ♦* a n i 'i r !' • (jxiiid: L.l ixrLi: Lir:ai, liLiii/iiiitil, tiO. I v -D'-r rr-o k -ni a 9 jiT A. vi iJ 'Ln; t j i l ! AT gPCk JJRO3' i a&T mLLEKY / FAMILY GROUPES AND CHILDREN —TAKEN BY THE— INSTANTANEOUS PROCESS! Satisfactory Work Done bv RAIN OR SKINS! 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