HARRISBURG BMKRS> TELEGRAPH T v XT. 01 Q BY CARRIERS fl CENTS A WEEK. LAAAV JNO. ZlO SINGLE COPIES 2 CENTS. CITY EAGER FOR # RISE OF CURTAIN j ON FASHION SHOW Thousands Await Chance To night to "Oh" and "Ah" on Brilliant Streets PRIZES FOR WINDOWS Judges Will Be Busy; Fantastic Parade and Great Dance in Square Friday "To-night's 'tne night'!" Word and deed to-day were surely obedient children to that big thought that was expressed in every business house and store in the city's commer cial section, central. Hill and West End. Proprietors and floorwalkers glanced more frequently at watches; the girls behind tho counters were an evening or two ahead in their thought; clerks ! were secretly thankful that the weeks j of preparation were all over to-day; j window decorators added the last, touches behind the curtained display j windows of scores of stores and went j home happy and hoping. It is "The Night" For to-night the big three-night cele- 1 bration of Harrisburg's first uniform | merchants' Fall opening begins—and | the curtain will rise at 7.30 o'clock on the "window dressing contest." j To-morrow night there will be infor- : mal "doings," the crowds will just stroll about the streets and look at the windows. The board of judges —window dressing experts from out of town —will be the busiest of busy men. \ They'll be judging windows to-night! and to-morrow night. Just a word to you. Mr. Merchant, if you haven't ob- i tained a display card from the Cham ber of Commerce. These cards, which announce the fact that the store in which the card is displayed is an en trant in the "dressing" competition, must be in the window, the judges will not consider a window which is j not so marked. On Other Evenings Briefly speaking, the program for the three evenings is this; At 7.25 o'clock to-night the city s "white wav" will be darkened, when the street lights will be turned off and tho electric signs and window lights will be turned down behind the deeply curtained windows. A few minutes later the clamor of the fire bells will give a city-wide notice of the fact that Harrisburg's merchants are about to show what they can display In the way ! of the very latest In Fall coats and | suits and stockings and hats and shoes , and other things. At 7.30 o'clock the lights will flash ; on again and the scores of curtains will rise on the big Fall fashion show. And the Crowds—Wlievv! Bv that time it is safe to say that Market Square, Market street and the other streets upon which the gaily lighted stores front will hardly be able to hold the crowds. In Market Square In the meantime there will be a hand concert. This has been arranged by David Kaufman in front of the Kauf man Underselling Stores. To-morrow night, 'tis true, will be more or less "show night." But then on Friday evening—oh! my, that s to be tho finale. , That whole southwest section of Market Square Is to be turned into a gigantic open-air dance floor where hundreds of gaily costumed dancers will frolic for hours In mad pre-Hal lowe'en capers to tlie music or the Municipal band. On With the Dance From 9 o'clock until midnight the dance will go on. A grand march will be the first number. To enter the march one must be costumed and masked The unmasking will follow the grand march, after which every body can slip Into the great roped-oft enclosure and dance. Handsome sil ver cups will be awarded to the wear ers of the most original and the most comicil feminine and masculine cos tumes. V. Grant Forrer. assistant park superintendent, is to be the chair man of the board of judges. Oostumcrb will be here from isew York on Friday to distribute costumes Pt a reasonable figure. They will make the Commonwealth their headquarters. Tlie Marshals Plenty of policemen, It Is true, will keep the crowds outside the ropes and in addition to the officers there will be the following gaily costumed mar- Sh A.*H. Kreidler, Otto W. Plack, Fred S. Lack, S. S. Eberts, Frank B. Bosch, Joseph Claster, Joseph Wallazz, John S Musser, F. F. Davenport, O. C. Blckel, Mercer B. Tate, W. S. Essick, J. M. Delaney, H. R. Long, John Grey, D. L. M. Raker, Ross R. Seaman, James P. McCullough, Ira Romberger and Stanley G. Jean. THE WEATHER For Harrlßbur* anil vlclnltyt Fnlr to-nlKht mill Ttaursdny; warmer to-nlKlit, with ioneit tempera ture ahout 50 deKrees. For Eastern Pennsylvania i Fair to-night and Thursday, warmer to-nlKht) moderate southweat wind*. River The Sunquelionna river nnd tta • trlbutnrlea will fnll slowly or re main nenrly ntationary. A atoKc of about 3.4 feet IN Indicated for Harrlshurg Thursday morning. General Condition* rreimure continues hitch over the Eastern part of the country, liut It ha* dlmlniHlied decidedly over a broad belt of country extendlim from the Went Gulf reslon north through the Mi**l*Nlppl Valley, the Plnln* State* and the Lake ' Region Into Canada. Fair weather han prevailed throughout the country, except along the north ern boundary from Michigan eastward to the Atlantic ocean and In Home localities In Florida and New Mexico, where light ohowcra have occurred. There tin* lieen a general rlne of 2 to 1# de gree* In temperature east of the Rocky Mountain* In the lam twenty-four bourn, except In the Atlantic State* from Virginia *o-ithwa-.l nnd In tlie Rn*t fiiilf Mutes, where It 1* Nomewhat cooler. Front* occurred this morning In Went Vlrginiu, the In terior Qf Virginia and In >ome lo calitie* In Xfw Vork nnd Penn sylvania. Tempernturei S a. m., 48, Sun: Kises, SsSfl n. m.| net*, aim p. m. Moon i IVew moon, September 37, 2:34 a, m. River Stagei 3.4 feet above low water mark. Curtain Rises To-Night on Great Fashion Show of Harrisburg's Stores ROTARY CLUB GETS BEHIND NEW HOTEL FOR HARRISBURG Pledges Moral and Financial Support to Big Pro position COMMITTEE AUTHORIZED Members Also Pass on Auto matic Phone and Boy Scout Movement Rotary Committee Named; Will Meet This Evening Howard C. Fry, president of the Harrisburg Rotary Club, this after noon named the following commit tee of the Rotary Club, in accord with a resolution passed last night, to co-operate with the Chamber of Commerce committee in raising funds for the new hotel for Har risburg: John S. Musser, chair man; Ralph W. Dowdell, Wm. S. Essick, A. E. Buchanan, Carl M. Kaltwasser, W. Grant Raucli, Sam uel P. Eby, Arthur H. Bailey, El mer E. Lawton, George E. Whit ney, Edward Frazer and Gus M. Steinmetz. The committee will meet this evening at 7:30 at Mr. Musser's place of business, the Dauphin Electrical Supplies Com pany, 434 Market street. The Harrisburg Rotary Club, meet ing at the exhibition rooms of the Cumberland Valley Telephone Com pany, last evening gave its hearty en dorsement to the new hotel plan, au thorized the appointment of a com mittee to assist in the sale of stock and pledged its moral and financial support to the great undertaking. In addition the club witnessed a working demonstration of the new automatic telephone to be installed in Harrisburg and passed resolutions en dorsing it from the standpoint of the telephone user. On recommendation of President Howard C. Fry the Rotarians guaran teed the expense of a campaign in Harrisburg to be undertaken next April by the Boy Scouts of America whereby money will be raised to finance a Boy Scout campaign in this city on a well organized working basis for the coming three years. Plans for this will be announced later. The resolution was introduced by William B. Bennett. Hotel Plan Endorsed The endorsement of the hotel pro- ■ position came after a series of ad- : dresses on the subject by J. William Bowman, president of the Chamber of j Commence, E. Z. Wallower, E. J. j Stackpole and Ed. S. Herman. The club took heartily to the idea. | For a number of years it has been urging the formation of a hotel com pany and the fact that the movement lias been undertaken by Harrisburg : people and is backed by local capital j was very pleasing to the Rotarians. All of the speakers were optimistic as (Continued on Page 18.) Longer and Less Flaring Skirts to Be Worn This Fall New York, Sept. 20. Long and! less flaring skirts are indicated by the j Fall fashions, says the semiannual re port of the Silk Association of Amer ica. They will be of ankle length, fre quently made of pleats, and requiring as much or more material than last season, is the prediction. Paris fash ions, it is asserted, have not favored the extremely short, almost freaky skirts which have been worn here this year. The wearing of these skirts unques tionably has increased the demand for silk hosiery, both fancy and plain, says the reports of the experts. American People Rank Last in Thriftiness St. Louis, Sept. 20. The Ameri can people rank last in thriftiness ac cording to J. Lioneberger Davis, vice president of the St. Louis Union Trust Company, who addressed the conven tion of the National Association of Life Underwriters here to-day. "It is significant," he said, "that In the United States where wages are no toriously high, 99 people out of each 1,000 have saving accounts, whereas in Australia there are 300, in Eng land 302; in Germany 317; in France 346: in Belgium 397 and in Switzer land 554. John G. Jones, of the Alex ander Hamilton Institute, said that the time is nearly passed when life in surance men are to be looked upon as nuisances. Son Here Gets $25 of Half Million Dollar Estate Howard I. Colton, 182 5 Whitehall street, son of he late George W. Col ton, Brooklyn, N. Y., was cut off with only $25 worth of furniture in his father's will, according to a dispatch from that city, while the remainder of the estate, amounting to $499,010.05, was given to his daughter, Harriette E., 1350 Pacific street, Brooklyn. Mr. Colton, who was 87 years old, was a noted civil engineer and a large amount of his estate is in securities. Expenses total $7,729.40. making the total inheritance for the daughter, who was named as executrix, $491,280.65. WIFE SAVES HUSBAND'S LIFE AFTER QUARREL York, Pa., Sept. 20. Norman C. Beard, 40 years old, after a quarrel with his wife at home last night went to the cellar, hanged himself with a window cord to the joists. His wife out him down. The police found life still remained and .revived Beard. Then he fought | like a tiger and was rushed to the lios | pital and put in a strait-Jacket. He 1 will recover. | i CURE FOLLOWS PKAYEIt Reading, Sept. 20. John L. Hart ! man, paralyzed for nine years since |an attack of typhoid fever in 1907, left | his invalid's chair after a fervent ! prayer for health, and walked up | street. I He says he walked fully four miles J and seems fully cured. HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1916. SOME OF THOSE WHO ARE HELPING I WILLIAM H. BENNETHUM, Jr. Chairman General Commtttee on Arrangements. GREAT BULK OF N. Y. PROGRESSIVES BACK WHITMAN Republican Leaders Declare His Victory Proves Rull Moose Have Returned RACON RUNNING CLOSE Incomplete Primary Returns Give Calder Majority of 4,661 Down State New York, Sept. 20. lncomplete returns from yesterday's primary elec tion in New York State fail to decide the fight for the Republican nomina tion for the United States Senate be tween Robert Bacon, former ambassa dor to France, and William M. Calder, of Brooklyn, a former member of Congress. The vote in 4,303 districts out of a total of 5,719, gave Calder to-day a majority of 4.6C1, but Bacon's campaign managers hoped that later returns from outside New York City would wipe out this lead. They based their expectations on the fact that Bacon made his best run up-State, where 2,999 districts thus for reporting out of a total of 3,640 gave him a majority of 24,645. This was more than offset by the heavy vote his opponent received in New York City. Returns from yesterday's primary [Continued on Page 13] COWDEN IS NOT AGAINST RIPRAP Cily Engineer Says He Didn't So Advise Park Commis- | sioner Gross Riprapping of the River Front I slopes above Hardscrabble was not, advised against by City Engineer M. B. Cowden, according to that of- , ficiai to-day. In an endeavor to explain his fail ure thus far to take hold of the future , washout problem along the water j front in the West End, City Commis- j sioner E. Z. Gross declared that he j had finally had his conference on the subject with City Solicitor D. S. Seitz | and that Mr. Seitz had referred him | to Mr. Cowden. Mr. Cowden, according to Mr. Gross, had advised against the riprapping. [Continued on Page 13] Camp Hill Presbyterians Will Organize New Church Camp Hill, Pa., Sept. 20.—People of j [Camp Hill will organize a Presby terian Church to-morrow evening. The Rev. C. B. Segelkin, pastor of the First; Presbyterian Church of Steelton, will preside and the Rev. Dr. George E. j Hawes, pastor of Market Square Presbyterian Church, Harrisburg, will i preach the sermon. The Rev. Dr. Lewis S. Mudge, pastor of Pine Street Presbyterian Church, Harrisburg, will conduct the service of ordination and installation of the elders of the new church. Trustees will be elected and they will be authorized to make ap plication to the Cumberland county court for a charter. A committee will be appointed to select a building site. The Rev. T. J. Ferguson, of Silver Spring Presbyterian Church, will make the invocation and Elder E. Z. Gross, of Harrisburg, will read the Scripture. Elder J. Henry Spicer, of Harrisburg, will offer prayer and the Rev. J. Leonard Hynson, of Lebanon, will pronounce the benediction. The service will begin at 7:30 o'clock. TELEGRAPH'S PRESS BREAKS; RED LINE OFF FOR FEW DAYS Due to the breaking of a part of the machinery on the color deck of the Telegraph newspaper press last evening this newspaper will appear for several days without the customary red line at the top of the iirst page. Delay in readjusting the press fol lowing the accident was responsible for the late distribution in some parts of the city last night. * V y •> DAVID KAUFMAN Chief Marshal, Fantastic Parade PIKE TO READING ORDERED REBUILT Great Victory For Motor Club; Order Seventeen Miles Macademized The hearing this morning before Commissioner Michael J. Ryan, of the Public Service Commission, on the complaint of the combined motor clubs of Harrisburg, Palmyra and Reading against the Dauphin and Berks County Turnpike Company for not keeping their pike in repair, re sulted in the order being made pub lic requiring the turnpike company to resurface and rebuild with macadam the entire length of highway extend ing for a distance of seventeen miles from the Dauphin county line to a point at the eastern end of Werners ville. It is stipulated that the work must be finished by July 1, 1917. Forty witnesses were called before the com mission by the attorneys representing the three motor clubs, who were Frank B. Wicker§t\jii, John Fox Weiss. Gabriel H. Moyer, of this city, and William M. Wolfe, of Reading. The witnesses were mainly motorists from Lebanon, Annville, Palmyra and Harrisburg. The turnpike company is likewise instructed in the order to rebuild a number of bridges that are in need of repair, put up guard rails where necessary, take a dangerous curve out of the road at Lebanon and effect such other changes as are designated. The decision of the Public Service Commission is regarded in the light of a victory for the Motor Club of Harrisburg, which was instrumental in bringing about the action against the turnpike company. SMALL CHANCE OF ! AVERTING STRIKE Labor Leaders Say 700,000 Workers Will Go Out With the Trolley Men New York, Sept. 20. Despite the j attempted intervention of a committee of businessmen, there seemed to be i little prospect to-day of averting a j general strike in sympathy with the ' street railway employes. Labor leaders aver that the proposed general walk out will involve about 700,000 work ers in all trades. A second conference of the business men with the Mayor and chairman of the Public Service Commission was I called to-day but It was the feeling of those most directly concerned that the situation had reached an absolute deadlock. Union leaders have promised to withhold their order for a sympathetic strike until after Thursday. Throughout the night elevated trains, together with subway trains at | points where they run on elevated (Continued on Page 18.) Transfer Privilege Is Granted Patrons of Valley Railways Co. As a result of the efforts of the West Shore Firemen's Union, additional transfer privileges were to-day grant ed by the Valley Railways Company. The concession followed a brief hear ing l.eld this morning before the Pub lic Service Commission. The new transfer order is effective November 1. It war, also announced that the present method of handling school tickets | would continue. The transfer will be issued from West Falr\iow Square to any other point on the West Shore south, including Lemoyne, White Hill, Camp Hill and New Cumberland. Persons from those four towns also will be able to transfer to cars taking them to the West Fair view Square. Attorney Arthur R. Rupley was present as. counsel for the West Shore Firemen's Union. J. E. B. Cunning ham was counsel for the Railways Company. During the hearing Presi dent Bishop and Superintendent Sense man, of th> Valley Railways Company, asked for a recess and conferred with their counsel. Subsequently they an nounced their willingness to grant the transfer privileges as requested. 22 REPORTED SHOT AS SPIES Amsterdam, Sept. 20.—According to a press dispatch from Maastricht sixty-two persons have been on trial at Hasselt, Belgium, on charges of espionage of whom twenty-two were condemned to death last Friday. It is rumored the advices state, that these persons, Including M. Golen vaux, Burgomaster of Namur, have al i , ready been shot V-Y < V J : .. '• J. WILLIAM BOWMAN President Chamber of Commerce NO SCHOOL TAX INCREASE WHEN BIG LOAN PASSES Advertisements of Special Vote to Re Placed Next Week PLAN WIDE PURLICITY One Junior High Likely to Re Placed on Allison Hill Advertisements of the special vote to be taken in the city November 7 on the proposed loan of a million and a quarter dollars for high school im provements will be placed in the news papers next week by school officials. Acoordlng to school it Is not believed that the proposed loan, approved yesterday afternoon by the School Board, will necessitate an increase in the tax rate should the voters appiove it. Much publicity of the Junior high school system and the use of the money In meeting high school needs in the city for at least ten years Is now being planned. Should the loan be approved, probably the first step to be taken will be the purchase of addi tional property adjoining Technical high school for the extension of that building so as to accommodate all boys for the senior high school. Although [Continued on Page 13] HUGHES ON WAY TO MILWAUKEE Calls Railroad Law a Force Bill; Says Administration Coerced Congress Chicago, Sept. 20. —The special train carrying Charles E. Hughes on his campaign trip through the Middle West passed through Chicago early to day enroute from Springfield, 111., where he spoke yesterday afternoon and last night, to Milwaukee, Wis. The day's program for the nominee calls for a speech at Oreenbay, Wis., wrteio his. cruin will stop for an hour and a half. Brier addresses from the rear platform of his car are to be made at Sheboygan, Manitowoc, Ap pleton, Oshkosh and Fond du Lac. Mr. Hughes will reach Milwaukee at 6 o'clock to-night and will make a speech there, departing early to-mor [Continued on Page 15] Number of Lives Lost in Rioting After German Losses in Somme Are Made Known London, Sept. 20.—Serious rioting, in which a number of lives were lost, took place at Chemnitz Saturday after, noon, according to a Central News dis patch from The Hague. The dispatch says the rioting started when the news arrived of the heavy losses of Chemnitz workmen in the Somme battle. Crowds assembled on the streets and sang "The Internation ale." They refused to disperse and wore charged by Hussars. Five Hus sars were killed and 300 armed with revolvers were arrested. Sweden, Often Scourged by Infantile Paralysis Has Not Found Cure Stockholm, Sweden, Sept. 20.—What can be done to cure and prevent in fantlie paralysis? The Associated Press correspondent has put this question to all of Sweden's leading authorities on poliomyelitis, as the disease is scientifically known, and their answer has been the same. "Wo don't know." Tills answer is the more discourag ing in view of the fact that Sweden, almost alone among European coun tries, has been repeatedly scourged by the epidemic, and, as a result, has a number of physicians and bacteri ologists who have devoted themselves for years almost exclusively to the study of the disease. Nowhere else ex cept in the Rockefeller Institute of New York have such exhaustive in vestigations een made, and the sum of them all Is the answer given above: /'We don't know." MONSTER BATTLE IS RAGING ALONG j EASTERN FRONT Teutons Concentrating Against Menacing Drives of Russians and Rumanians ROTH CLAIM ADVANTAGE Entente Winning in Macedo-; nia; Greece Reported to Have Sent Ultimatum Fighting on a huge scale Is in prog ress along the eastern war front, whence the center of interest has shift ed following the let-up in the heavy i allied atacks along the Somme in the west. Evidence is accumulating that the central powers are now devoting their main attention to the conditions In the east, concentrating large forces against Rumania, notably under Field Marshal Von Mackensen in Dobrudja, and putting all possible available men in the field to stop the Russian march on Lemberg byway of Halicz and the menacing drives of the Russians and I Rumanians in the Carpathians and I Transylvania. Both Sides Claim Advantage Both Berlin and Sofia report the de velopment of a great battle on the line .the Russians and Rumanians have i taken up in Dobrudja to defend the | railroad route into interior Rumania | from Constanza, on the Black Sea. The engagement, they declare, is turning lin favor of the force of the central j powers under Von Mackensen. Latest j reports from the fighting in Galicia | and Volhynia show the Teutonic forces I on the offensive and claiming decided advantages over the Russian armies under General Brussiloff. As-has frequently been the case when decisive developments were lacking, Petrograd to-day Is silent re garding the operations the Rus sian front, reporting merely that there I have been no important happenings. I Turkish troops which appear to j have played an ifnportant r>art in stif fening the lines of tho Teutonic al ] lies in the east, have been successful I in the recent fighting in Galicia, Con j stantinople announces to-day. A 48- hour battle wtih superior Russian [Continued on Page 15] .RUMORS CURRENT AT EL PASO THAT VILLA ' CAPTURED CHIHUAHUA IN SECOND ATTACK El Paso, Tex., Sept. 20.—Rumors were current here to-day ( ,that Chihuahua City was captured by Villa in a second at-i tack last night. General Francisco Gonzales, commandant at Juarez, and Consul Garcia declared the rumors were without foundation. According to the rumor the attack was preceded# 'by mutiny of a large part of the garrison. The bandits were said to occupy the municipal and federal palaces and two for tified hills. ( 'COMMISSIONERS CONSIDER MANY BORDER PLANS' New London, Conn., Sept. 20. Further consideration of the various plans suggested for the control of the border fig-f ures to-day in the conference of the Mexican-American joint commissioners. It was not expected any plan suggested would be added soon for recommendation to the two governments! land it appeared probably that notwithstanding the reluctance of the Mexican members to discuss the internal affairs of their country, such questions as the American commissioners ( consider related to the general situation would be taken up. 1 BREAKERS BOYS STONE MINERS Hazleton, Pa., Sept. 20.—Boys who struck at the Hazle-i I ton shaft colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company to day stoned miners on their way to work and forced suspen sion of the operations employing about 1500 men. The boys quit because they want to be on a regular schedule, claiming' that when there is nothing for them to do they are sent home' after making partial shifts. MASONS CONSIDER CHARITY PLANS Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 20.—The Supreme Council, Thirty- 1 third Degree Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Masons of 'the Northern Jurisdiction, in session here to-day considered the report of the committee appointed three years ago to in-j vestigate the feasibility of an organization within the Supreme (Council to administer bequests for charitable, benevolent and philanthropic purposes. The problem of creating such an or ganization was said to be attended with considerable diffi-' culty as the northern jurisdiction covers fifteen States with 1 different laws governing the disposition of such bequests. ' SENT THREATENING LETTERS TO WILSON 1 Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 20. Accused of sending threaten ing letters to President Wilson, Morris Diamond, of Bay City,B ' Mich., was being held by the police to-day to await examin ation by a physician as to his sanity. Diamond, who was known as James C. Wilson, was arrested by federal agents who de- ( ,cided after questioning him that he was of unsound mind. "SURRENDER TO FORCE" LEADS TO "CIVIL WAR" Green Bay, Wis., Sept. 20. The pathway of "surrender! (to force" Charles E. Hughes told an audience here to-day, in renewing his attack on the administration for the Adamson law, leads to but one end, "civil war." Mr. Hughes referred to the action of the administration as "unpardonable." ' FURLONG REFUSED PARDON Harrisburg. The State Board of Pardons to-day re fused pardon to George Furlong, convicted in the Dauphin' county court of having a wife here and wife and six children in Massachusetts. A letter was read from Judge McCarrell, saying that the man did not deserve clemency and the boardl I concluded the case shortly after the hearing began. MARRIAGE LICENSES , i Andrew I'nrkrt and Anna Kramer* Johnnon. city. Frank Miller Booth and Helen ohrliien < rouxe, Philadelphia. Frank Benjamin MeGIH, Mlddletown, and Ceeella Margaret Snter, ' I . Joseph and Annie Oattop, Middle town. [Vl"<i * yi" mVlr* w| 20 PAGES CITY EDITION SIX MEN KILLED BY EXPLOSION AT MOUNT UNION Cotton Dry House at Plant of Aetna Explosives Company Completely Destroyed MANY EMPLOYES INJURED Bodies of Killed Torn to Shreds; Wounded Taken to Huntingdon Hospital Mount Union, Pa., Sept. 20. Six men were killed and a number injured at 6 o'clock this morning when a ter rific explosion completely destroyed the cotton dry house at the plant of the Aetna Explosives Company here. The men were changing shifts at the j time, the night workers Just going j away from the building at the Ume. ' On account of this many of them es | raped injury. j Tho dry house stood away from the I other buildings about 400 yards and i was located along the river bank. The bodies of the men killed were blown into bits, which were scattered over the ground in the vicinity of the demolished building. Many of the in jured workmen were badly hurt and were immediately taken to the Hunt ingdon Hospital. The bodies of the dead arc at the plant. The workmen killed were: George Stair, Orbisonia; Elmer Pyle, Orbi sonia; Clayton Clark, Marietta; Elmer Bair, Orbisonia; William Lehman, Portage, and Charles Ulsch, Orbisonia. Twenty-one men were employed in the building.. Of those hurt it is thought that only three have received serious injuries. The explosion occurred in C dry house and that building was blown to atoms, parts of it being found more than half a mile away. Dry house A, standing a short distance away, was somewhat damaged and at one time was on fire. It is stated that 100,000 pounds of powder exploded. There have been rumors for several days that the contracts held by the company had been filled and that the plant would shut down in a short time. Many of the men employed in other parts of the works will not resume work, it is said, to-day and will leave t own.
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