End of the world, Pleasant Prairie March 9th, 1911

[hunter63]

Attended this year's Kenosha County Archaeology Society/Pleasant Prairie Historical Society summer picnic.

Was held very close to the sight of the biggest explosion in the midwest.at the time.....Leveling all the 40 building of the plant and for miles around. ......damage to windows from Madison WI down past Chicago was reported...and heard in Cleveland.

I had heard of it in the past...but had been kinda lost........

http://www.gendisasters.com/wisconsi...osion-mar-1911

Few of the old time residents had postcards, and accounts from their grandparents.

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POWDER BLAST DESTROYS TOWN.

PROPERTY LOSS OF MILLION AND HALF AND ONE FATALITY.

(By Associated Press)
Pleasant Prairie, Wis., March 9. -- The powder magazines of the Dupont-Nemours Powder company containing 180 tons of finished black powder and dynamite exploded at the plant of the company, one mile northwest of here tonight. One man E. S. THOMPSON, a foreman is known to be dead. MISS ALICE PINCH of Elgin, Ills., dropped dead of heart disease caused by fright. 350 people were injured; several hundred houses in this place were blown completely down or were so badly damaged as to be uninhabitable and buildings ten miles away were badly wrecked.
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Also not listed was 5 railroad cars filled with dynamite also went up.

Was held a Rec Center for the subdivision....just south of the location.
This area just had the flooding recede, so hiking the site couldn't be done.

Interesting.

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

180 tons of BP AND dynamite…. and only one fatality? That's remarkable! Maybe that stuff is not as dangerous as I thought.

Alan

[rebel]

BOOM! Whodah thunk it

[hunter63]

People thought it was the end of the world.....were told to run down tom Lake Michigan and jump in?
Some think this was because of the Peshtigo Fire 1871...many jumped in the water to get away from the flames.

http://www.gendisasters.com/wisconsi...-fire-oct-1871

Sounds like they would just die....wet and cold?

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