Geneva, Illinois
Glucose Factory Explosion
May 18, 1893
SIX LIVES LOST.
Terrific and Mysterious Explosion at Geneva,
Illinois.
GENEVA, Ills., May 18.-C.
I. POPE's glucose factory was the
scene of a most disastrous explosion by which
six persons lost their lives and one man was
fatally scalded.
The killed are:
VICTOR ANDERSON.
LOUIS SCHULTZ.
FRED STORM.
E. LUND.
ALFRED ANDERSON.
J. DANIELSON.
Fatally injured:
J. KALBERG.
Seriously hurt:
WILLIAM PRATT.
The factory was a large 4-story structure and
there were 80 employes in the building at the
time, most of whom escaped with only slight
injuries.
The explosion occurred in a generator and
scattered things right and left. The shock was a
terrific one and was felt throughout a radius of
three miles. That more lives were not lost
borders on the miraculous.
The scene presented the usual one of devastation
and the suffering of the scalded ones was indeed
pitiful. People in the vicinity immediately ran
to the rescue and the work of assistance was
soon begun. Physicians were summoned, but the
six unfortunates named were not in need of their
services, and the doctors turned their attention
to the injured. The cause of the disaster is not
yet known. An investigation is being made.
The Marion Daily Star, Marion, OH 17 May
1893
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