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About 100 workers were in the Los Angeles Times building at 1:07 a.m. Oct. 1, 1910. Then 16 sticks of dynamite exploded at the anti-union newspaper, and people began dying.
Their load exploded at 9:45am on September 4, 1885 on the 6th Line (road) at Douro, Ontario, [2] noted as being a corduroy road and rough to travel in poor weather. [3] Both men were killed in the blast and the only parts of the men that were found were "a finger, two tiny sections of a skull, a tiny piece of cheek identified by the whiskers, and what appeared to be a man's shoulder that was ...
At approximately 10:22 a.m., an anonymous man phoned the 16th Street Baptist Church. The call was answered by the acting Sunday School secretary, a 15-year-old girl named Carolyn Maull. [21] The anonymous caller simply said the words, "Three minutes" [22]: 10 to Maull before terminating the call. Less than one minute later, the bomb exploded.
Twenty short tons (18,000 kg) of the island's dynamite exploded in 1906 after two men "had been shooting with a revolver" near it; while there were no deaths (and only minor injuries to the two men), windows were shattered 3 mi (4.8 km) away and the explosion was clearly audible from 85 mi (137 km) away.
Part of the track where the explosion took place at Braamfontein on 19 February 1896 The crater created by the dynamite explosion (looking west) at Braamfontein on 19 February 1896. On 16 February 1896, a freight train with eight trucks of dynamite – 2300 cases of 60lb each, or about 60 tonnes – was put in a siding at Braamfontein railway ...
1885 Dynamite explosion – A wagon load of dynamite exploded during transport. 3 May 1887 Canada: Nanaimo, British Columbia: 150 Unknown 1887 Nanaimo mine explosion – A coal mine exploded in an explosives accident and killed 150 miners, including 53 Chinese Canadian laborers. 15 July 1890 United States: Kings Mills, Ohio: 11 About 100
It was September 15th, 1959, when an ex-convict, 49-year-old Paul Orgeron showed up on the campus of Edgar Allen Poe Elementary with his seven year old son and a suitcase packed with dynamite.
Therefore, while the risk of an explosion without the use of a blasting cap is minimal for fresh dynamite, old dynamite is dangerous. [citation needed] Modern packaging helps eliminate this by placing the dynamite into sealed plastic bags and using wax-coated cardboard. Dynamite is moderately sensitive to shock.