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Ka-boom! The day Pleasant Prairie was blown off the map in 1911 By Sandra Landen Machaj CORRESPONDENT
In the early 1900s, Pleasant Prairie was a small community just south of Kenosha. With just 700 residents it would seem to be a quiet safe place to raise a family ‌ and for a long time it was. But danger was lurking in the community. The largest employer in Pleasant Prairie at the time was the DuPont de Nemours Company, which produced blasting powder. The plant was spread out over 190 acres with supplies contained in 40 buildings. Accidents at the plant were commonplace causing the people who lived in Kenosha County to consider the plant to be a danger to the community. In 1909 the residents of Kenosha County brought suit against the DuPont Company citing the plant as a public menace. In spite of the poor safety record of the company, the court ruled in favor of DuPont, allowing the company to continue its operation at this site. It was only a matter of time until disaster struck. On March 9, 1911, a major explosion occurred at DuPont when five magazines, which were holding 280 tons of dynamite, and 105,000 kegs of black powder exploded, destroying most of the town. A series of explosions began as, one by one, the buildings on site exploded. The blast was far worse than any of the town’s citizens expect-
ed. The explosions were loud and the force of the explosion was felt as far as 100 miles away. The first building to explode was believed to be the glaze house, a building used to dry the powder. At the time more than 1,100 kegs of powder were in the house and being dried in nine 12-foot steel cylinders. Each of the cylinders held 125 kegs of powder, which were brought to high heat by having steam forced through the powder. The power of the explosion was devastating. Houses within a five mile radius of the plant were destroyed with some leveled and others damaged enough to make them uninhabitable. The explosion caused a 100-foot-deep crater under the former dynamite house. The blast was felt more than 100 miles away and the explosion was reported being heard as far away as Ohio and Iowa. Despite of the magnitude of the blast, only one person was reported killed, a plant employee named E.S. Thompson. His body was recovered one mile away. Hundreds of others were injured, some severely. One of the steel cylinders was blown into the air and came down through the roof of the H.A. King and E.A. King general store, leaving a hole five feet in diameter. The keg fell through the second story roof down to the first floor and then came to rest in the ground under the build-
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