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The Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
October 15, 1952


           Eight Feared Dead After Du Pont Blast.
           
           BARKSDALE, WIS., (INS) - A DuPont dynamite plant
         exploded at Barksdale Wednesday and eight persons
         were believed killed.
           The blast shattered windows for a four-mile radius
         and towering chemical flames roared through the area
         two hours, setting off a second explosion in a fuel
         tank.
           The racing flames fell short of a near-by powder
         magazine, averting further disaster.
           The Du Pont plant stands in Bayfield County on
         the west bank of Chequamegon Bay, an inlet of Lake
         Superior, about five miles south of Washburn. Win-
         dows of Main Street shops were shattered in Ashland,
         Wis., four miles eastward across the bay.
           The original blast occurred in a nitro-mixing
         plant, a two-story frame building. Six chemical
         workers were believed trapped inside. And two crew-
         men, operating rail cars to haul material from the
         structure, also were reported missing.
           Sheriff J. A. DeMars at Washburn said fire fighters
         of the DuPont private department blocked off the area
         and had controled the blaze. No reports on rescue
         work nor the cause of the explosion were made.
           The factory comprises three buildings within a
         ravine with the powder storage bin on a near-by
         hill. Some 300 persons are employed, mostly from
         Washburn and Ashland. The community of Barksdale
         consists of less than a dozen families.
         
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