Awful

August 28, 1888, Watertown Republican

Over the course of this blog, we've talked about the Whiting Mill, especially in the Menasha book, but we've not gone in depth about the tragic explosion in 1888 which took so many lives.  It was such a big event, newspapers covered it nationwide.  I present the Watertown version of the story, albeit a week after the event.  I apologize in advance for the lurid prose presented therein, but that was the style of the day, to pull few punches when it came to describing such things.