Terrific Explosion

Plttsburg, Jan. 13.- The magazine of the Pennsylvania Torpedo company, limited, at Shamopin, Pa., eighteen miles from here, blew up Tuesday. The explosión occurred about 10 o'clock and completely demolished the building and tore a large hole in the ground. Two men and two women were killed and one man injured. The names of the killed were: L. D. Stickney, superintendent; James McCloskey, workman; two girls, names not known. The injured man was Walter Crane. He will likely recover. The explosión was at the plant of the Columbia Dynamite company, a branch of the Pennsylvania Torpedo company, limited. The building, which is a twostory frame structure, was blown to atoms and the report was heard thirty miles away. At Shousetown the public school building was partly demolished and a panic among the pupils ensued, but fortunately no one was hurt. Economy, Coraopolis and other towns say the shock was so heavy that Windows were broken. The cause of the explosión is not known and particulars are very meager.