Fragments of human remains were found scattered in many places. In the auction room of Cobb and Sinton, on the east side of Montgomery Street, a human brain, almost intact, and other fragments of the body near it, were found. A piece of human vertebrae was blown over the buildings on the east side of Montgomery Street, where it was picked up in front of Squarza's, on Leidsdorff street. A piece of skull was lying on California Street, east of Leidsdorff, with other fragments of human remains, and a human arm struck the third story window of the building across the street. This newspaper story continues for many more paragraphs, describing the dead, the living and the names of the victims.
Public safety demands it.
Three weeks later, Wells, Fargo and Co. printed a notice that it would no longer carry nitroglycerine in its coaches. One of the early concerns was that the Vulcan Powder Co. had been formed with the expectation of buying the California rights to the patent. After the headings of these tunnels were through, it was used on the bottoms. All side hill blasting followed the instructions of Charles Crocker, however, as black powder was used solely for all side hill explosions. Collis P. Huntington was advised by E. B. Crocker that the man who owned the patent rights in the U.S. had concluded to sell the rights west of the Rockies to an unnamed party, and after it had been determined that the Central Pacific was manufacturing nitroglycerine without any legal right to do so, this sale fell apart as patents were not being enforced.