Thorntown Old Sett Explosion - 2 die - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Thorntown, Ind., Aug. 15—A panic was started in a crowd of 3,000 people here on account of an explosion of fireworks that were being given in honor of the tri-county old settlers’ reunion held here. Nearly a score of people were injured by the flying rockets, their clothing set on fire, or badly trampled in the mad rush to escape from the scene of the explosion. Mrs. G. H. Hamilton, wife of the editor of the Thorntown Argus, and Benjamin Mullen, of Frankfort, were perhaps fatally hurt, but aside from these, the others were not seriously hurt.—thanks to “S” for the typing