Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-04-13
The Explosion at Salt Lake.

The appearance of the city after the
explosion bore strong testimony to the
power OF forty-fve tons Of powder,
there being scarcely house not more or
less damaged by the shocks. The win
dows of the Emporium Building are all
more or less shattered. The Exchange
Building, Deseret National Bank, Colder
& Careless, Dryers. W. +. Raybould's,
Wassatch Drug Store and the Corpora
tive Store each lost from one to three
large lights OF plate.glass by the shocks,
while wheelbarrow-loads Of broken glass
could be shovelled up anywhere along
the main street. The city presented
worse appearance than 1t would If it had
been shelled by veterans of the war.
fredericksburg, after being bombarded
for month did not show SO many signs
of wreck as Salt Lake did from the eff
fects OF the great blow-up. The loss Of
the powder buildings is estimated at
$26, 900, while the damage done the
buildings in the city cannot be calculated.
Five lives are known to have been lost,
and possibly more. Two boys were
blown to pieces-Mrs. Vanetta's little
boy Radon, and babe. Several citi-
zens were standing on the corner op-
posite the theatre when can of powder
came down on the Theatre corner ex-
ploding and throwing rock and dirt all
around them. Joseph H. Radon, aged
five or six years. q son Of James Radon,
of the Goth Ward. was sitting in his
fathers back yard playing when stone
weighing four or five pounds struck him,
passing through his chest and cutting
out his heart and lungs. killing him
instantly. A boulder weighing fifty
pounds struck the roof Of Mayor Titles
new house and passed through three
floors. A rock went flying through the
roof Of Geo. Saville's house, in the
Goth Ward and knocked th.
chimney down Matthiesson Il John
sons wagon depot ON First East street,
near the theatre, was visited by q ten.
pound rock, which went crashing
through the roof. A woman in the Ninth
Ward, name unknown, died of fright. A
boulder came near killing lady by th,
name OF Bird. residing three doors south
of the Townsend House. The rocl
weighed eighteen pounds. and passed
through the adobe walls like cannon
ball. Mary Jane Vanatta, residing il
the Nineteenth Ward, was at tho pumy
getting water, when she was struck by ,
boulder and instantly killed. A rocl
weighing fifteen pounds struck the roo
OF the residence Of J. p. Page, on Nortl
Temple street, and passing through tn,
root landed in bedroom just vacated
by Mrs. Page. In one of the uppe
wards baby was killed in its mother
arms by falling rock. Twenty-six win
dow. sashes in the residence Of Assistan
Postmaster Parsons were completed,
wrecked, glass and all. In Camp Doug
lass, four miles distant from the explo
sion, the buildings were terribly shaken
No damage done. Pieces Of human
flesh resembling linked sponge wer
brought to the Tribune office last even
ing. Shingleton's saloon, opposite tn
theatre, was struch with huge boulde
weighing ll5 pounds. which passe
through the root and floor into the cellar
burying itself twenty inches in th
ground. In its descent 1t came With
two feet of striking two men who wer
sitting at table. One OF Brigham
Youn0's daughters were sitting near
bay window at the time OF the concus
sion. The glass was shattered and
piece fell on her head, INJECTING a sever
scalp wound. Heber P. Kimball's hous,
Main street, above City Creek, had
close call from hundred.pound bould,
which passed through the roof and fiot
into the cellar. Most of these are over
mile from the exploded magazines.