Veteran 'Nitro' Worker Is
        Victim of Terrific Blast 

Well Shooter. Blown to Bits by Explosion At Sapulpa; Large Area Shaken

SAPULPA. Oct. 12 (AP) Blown to bits by the explosion of approximately 600 quarts of nitroglycerin. The body of Oscar Bond, 45 years old, owner of the Bond Torpedo Co., lay scattered over a barren hillside Wednesday morning was the location of his company magazine six miles west of here.

Only town bits of clothing and other more gruesome fragments were found as evidence that Bond, here of an attempted newspaper bombing here 17 years ago, was caught in the blast that swept away the explosive warehouse.

Nearby trees 12 inches think were snapped, Bond's automobile was scattered piecemeal for half a miles and shrubbery over an area of three acres was leveled by the explosion.

A mile away two men were thrown from their wagon. Plate glass windows in Sapulpa were shattered and all windows in the Sapulpa County club, a quarter mile distant, were broken.

It was feared at one time Bond had helpers with him, but none proved missing.

Mrs. Bond, his only survivor, collapsed at their home when she heard the blast, convinced her husband had been killed. He had just had time to reach the magazine.

His death recalled that in 1915, when vandals threatened to destroy the play of the Sapulpa Herald because of editorials attacking civic conditions. Bond entered the darkened building and carefully carried out a 35- foot length of rubber hose which has been filled with nitroglycerin and wrapped around the printing press. A faulty fuse and cap prevented is explosion while hundreds of persons were gathering in the street nearby.

The cause of the blast that killed Bond probably will never be known, county officers said. It was thought possible Bond may have dropped a container while loading his automobile.

[I do not have access to the Sapulpa Herald - I found nothing in the Oklahoman about his funeral]