Explosion at China fireworks factory kills 26 people

Findlay, O., May 23.—As result of an explosion in the two drying rooms of the Lake Shore Novelty company's plant seven persons are known to be dead, five are so seriously hurt that recovery is believed to be impossible and twelve or fifteen are injured badly. From reports of the physicians ten of the most seriously injured may die as result of blood poisoning from the potash that was driven into their bodies. The dead are: Joseph Sherwood, aged twenty-one; Jay Sherwood, twenty-four; Edith Dillon, seventeen; Dean Shaw, eighteen; Mary Snider, twenty-five; Estella Decker, fifteen; Frank Grant, twenty-one. The exact cause of the explosion is not known. Railroad torpedoes and Fourth of July explosives were manufactured at this large plant that covered nearly ten acres of ground. Not a wall is left standing. The loss is $100,000. Bodies were picked up 300 feet from the scene of the explosion.