Hocking Mine Explosion,
Hocking, Iowa
January 1908
The town of Hocking was destroyed and five men hurt when 500 pounds of
dynamite  exploded during a fire. The property loss is $60,000. The
shock of the explosion was felt for five miles around, and at Albia, two miles
distant, windows were broken. The fire started from an unknown cause in the
store of the Hocking Supply Company, a frame building containing a stock of
worth $40,000. On a side track near by was a string of box cars, one of them
containing 500 pounds of dynamite. The flames jumped to the cars and when the
dynamite was reached it exploded with a deafening roar. Miners fought the
flames even when they knew the dynamite was in the car next to the fire and that
it was likely to explode at any time.
The Iowa Recorder, Greene, IA, 5 Feb 1908
 OSKALOOSA, Iowa, Jan 25. --A car of dynamite exploded at the Hocking
mines this morning, wrecking the company store and several adjoining buildings.
The loss is $100,000. No one was hurt, but the shock was felt for a radius
of ten miles.
The
Sandusky Star Journal, Sandusky, OH, 25 Jan 1908
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