Igloo 5185 Q (Jeffersonville, Indiana) | arsenal / weapon and ammunition storage, explosion site, bunker, bomb/explosion crater

 arsenal / weapon and ammunition storage, explosion site, bunker, igloo, historical layer / disappeared object, bomb/explosion crater

 Upload a photo

Daily Republic, Mitchell, South Dakota - 27 APR 1966
"A thunderous explosion destroyed the reinforced concrete magazine loaded with mortar propellant
at the Indiana ammunition plant today and left three workers missing and presumed dead.
The three were working in the immediate area of the blast at the southeast corner of this 10,000-acre
installation about 13 miles north of Louisville, Ky.
Forty-one persons were injured but all except two were released after receiving first-aid treatment
at a hospital in Jeffersonville. Most of them were working at least a mile away from the blast.
The explosion broke out windows and cracked plaster in buildings at Charlestown, five miles away,
and caused damage in other areas including buildings near Prospect, Ky., across the Ohio River.
Maj. William G. Lawhead, commander of the installation, said the blast also knocked out doors and
windows in some of the 1,600 buildings on the property.
The injured were struck by debris and flying glass, he said.
Lawhead said the remainder of the property was safe from any threat of a secondary explosion.
He did not identify the three missing workers but said they were working in the area and it was conceivable they could have been inside the 40 x 80 foot bunker when the blast came."

Logansport Pharos Tribune, Indiana - 28 APR 1966
"Witnesses said no trace of the bunker, which was constructed of thick concrete walls
and buried in earth, was left. They said nothing remained but a giant crater in the earth.
Searchers found fragments of the pickup truck in which the men were riding in the area
around the bunker, but they found no trace of the bodies."

eerie-indiana.blogspot.com/2013/09/powder-plant-igloo-e...