, 1876-04-22
Terrible EXPLOSION.

! The most horrible calamity that We have
read Of in many day took place in Salt Lake
City abont 4:3o O'Clock On tbe5,h inst. The
Salt Lake 1y.Ja''s gives fun particulars Of the
! disaster, from which we condanss as follows
I The TyBl7s does not cay where the powder
magazines were located, but we take 1t they
were not TAR from the business portions of tire
city. There were three quick and successive
reports that shook every building in the city,
/ topping cbiIuneJs and breaking the glass
windows over The whole city, and otherwise
I iuiuring buildings inassila- and roek- flying
/ Ia every direction and falling through hoGses
ana killing peT-0us UasICvo- they happ, ned
20 strike ih.m- The immediate cause could
not 6e ascrrtained. and pIubaSly never will
be, but is supposed that some boys who were
prac.iciuS shooting ~ a mark with their
guns, shot bail through the door Of one If
the ma z .ziue-, and II struck IN a key or can
lister OF powder IN q heated condition, and the
explosion Of one package caused MI the rest
10 explode, and the eoncussion was - great
in the other magazine they too IN turn ex-
ploded. Nothing but four holes IN the
ground were 10 be seen where the four maga-
LiAlfc siOtN4r dLO Il ttAA'tt SGoNct VI Slbht1
and detcis had fallen for half y mile around
Some Of tho incidents are as follows:
A woman in he Twentieth ward, after the
frs' coneus,ioa, picked Le- child mp from IT'S
cradle and rushed out Of dOors. On return
ing, she found the cradle crushed and covered
with debris from the ceiling, Major GurlIu-
ski and several other ut z-ns were s'andIb-;
inx on tie cU-uer If First East and EITsi
South streets, opposite the theatsr, when a
can Of powder came down on the thester cor
uer, exploding and throwing rock and dirt
all around them and endangering their
lives Joseph Ii. Radon, aged Ave or SIX
Tvar-, -on OF JONES k1diun. uf The Twen-
ti-;;, ward. was sitting in his fathers yard
playing, when a st5ae weighing four or i've
pounds struck him, passing through his chest
aud eating out his heart and lungs, killing
him instantly. y boulder weighing fifty
pounds struck the root If Mayor Little new
house and passed through three hoors.
4 rock went lying through the roof Of
George SaviIr's hUuSe, in the Twentieth
ward, and knocked the chimney down Mat
thieSscn u Johnson : wagon depot, on First
Eas, street, near the lbea;er, was visited by
a ten pound rock ahich went crushing
through The IU1f 4 woman in the Ninth
wa-d, whose name we have been unable to
learn, died Of fright \ boulder came near
killing lady by the uamu OF Bird, residing
three doors south of the Townsend house.
The rock weighed eighteen pounds and
passed through tho adobe sails like a cannon
ball Mrs Mary Jane Nauat;a, residing IN
the Nineteenth ward, who WAS at II pump
getting water, was struck by boulder and
Instantly killed. 4 rock Neighing fifteen
D. u;Iu6- struck the roof OF the residence OF j.
p Page, on North Temple street, and pass
ing through the roof handed n bed room
lust vacated by Mrs Page. J,La II. Jones.
II tinsmith living IN the NIn=iyenlh ward,
three blocks e-t and s0nth q! the powder
hoase, being at home at the time of the
p.o-ion, helped his wife and two children ont
Of the bouss and vas severely njured ia the
hand with a splinter The falling stove pipe
struck bis infant in the head az 1t lay inits
mn'L,r's arms. The Lou-- J. 80 completely
ridtIe1 with falling missi q a. To b. un,sH-
Gntable- In one o: the upp=r wards, baby
WAS killed ID IIs mothers arms by a falling
rock. Twenry-siT window sIshes in the res-
idrnce Of assistant postmaster Parsons were
completely wrecked, glass and all ~ Camp
Douglas, four miles distant from the exp!O-
Sion, the buildings e-e terribly shaken, bat
no damage was done. Pieces Of human
fr-h resembling an mixed sponge were
brought 10 the 2Ti}ums Office after the explo-
sion. ShingletOn's saloon, opposite the thea
eter, Was struck with a huge boulder weigh
ing 1l5 pounds, which pissed through the
r,of ,.,l A,,,r IN tbs. Collar buTyIQU itself
twenty inches in rhe ground In ITS descent
il came within tw3 feet Of striking two men
sitting at a table. Heber 2. kImbali's
hors., on Main street, above City Creek, had
rlrse caiI from i hundred pound boulder.
which passed. through The root aH4 il90r into
the CELLAR.