Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-07-23
Morning kilograms.
Passengers GO,UE Svu,n.

Passengers GOsUg SWusn.
MoJAvE, July 22.-H Alsue, s
B Wright, f Kidder, r. F White,
N Nelson, e France, q w Wood.
Miss s Wetch, M r Vernon, G w
Horne, Fl Lake, w Smith, b Hall.
Terrible Explosion AS s"craHasnt".
SACRAMENTO, July 20.-At 1880
to-day the whole city was shaken
as by an earthquake, followed by a
terrific report, as of whole pack
of heavy artillery. Instantly, from
the centre of the mass of buildings
comprising the Central Pacific
Railroad shops, arose vast cloud
of smoke and steam, filled with
timhers, bricks, broken iron, etc.
Thousands of people fiocked to the
works, and found that the two most
easterly of the system OF six huge
boilers, which furnish steam for the
great engine of the works, had ex-
plohed, utterly demolishing the
brick boiler house, scarcely leaving
one brick on another.
ONE OF THE BOILERS
Parted in the middle and the fire.
box end shot upward and northerly,
aud passing over a lofty pile of
wood, fell downward and through
the heavy biick wall of the Car
shop, landing In the middle of the
shop. The other end parted in two
pieces-ope large section shooting
south through the heavy brick wall
of the machine shop and falling in
the centre of it. Another piece
went easterly aud passed through
the heavy brick wall of the black
smith shop. The other boiler was
torn, but did not move far. A der
rick mast eighteen inches square,
heavily ironed, was snapped of
short at the base, as II pipe stem.
Nearly every window in all the
brick buildings forming the square,
In the center of which the boiler
house stood, was broken. Window
frames were torn out, doors smash
ed, and whole sections of several
.oofs were torn off. Some of the
pieces of iron and the wall, fell OIL
fine machinery, damaging it. All
the machinery In the west ends OF
the machine and car shops were
f. v plastered with mud formed
b. Ae thrown-up earth, softened
by steam.
Fo. pNATELY, BUT FEW MEN
Were ,out the shops, it being
Sunday, aud little work going on.
steam had been ordered for one
O'Clock for work in the boiler shops
and fire had been started under
the boilers that exploded some
fifteen minutes. Both boilers were
new, and had been but shorl
time in place, and were made OF
the best mate rial.
The Fire Department of the city
turned out instantly, and came tt
the scene of the disaster. Hun
dreds of willing hands were in
few moments at work, clearint
away the ueDris to find supposed
missing men, as 1t was thought fou
men were buried in the ruins
However, these were soon hear,
from.
One man, name not had, was Gu
badly on the face with splinters
Benjamin Burdge, a fireman, ha,
his leg broken, and j. Plant, tn
engineer, was slightly cut on tn
hand. This left but one man miss
ing.
J. NJ. KEYEs,
A freman. Presently, eighty fee
from the boiler-rOom, wedged be
tween PIKE of wood and a frelgh
car, hls eH"y "As found, torn ant
musnste' aus'.ar The IN hess hias most horrlbl
cred from the body. nhe heart
lungs and intestines were ali ,ar,
out, .,ud and the %oe ''fesi ioot broken an
the carphop, eighty ne ,ee' hoJv wa
where the rest Oh w." wife an
,hrea children, who live across w
- in the town of Washington
E.ur meu were standing IN iroi
.etha boilers when they expioue'
vet Keyes was the oh'y one A'.e
rup CAUSE OF THE ACoIpENT
uoa not vet been determined. III
ha;Iers may have blown up eith
80, the accumulation OF too mu'
a..,,.r, 49, or from lack Of water al
ste sns sudden forcing OF quaint
W. nunon hot metal. 1t may DC VI
n,,ortunate fireman heyes to' n
menced feeding the boilers wne e
on being notified that steam W "
oning to be needed, he founu .n
were short of water; Stea" "
"o, % in the other four boilers.
n"V ,rha 10 loss by the accident is
vet known, but Is So estimated
from $4,000 to $4,000.
ue..r,ea Danxer fro" sitt'"x "'
WASHINGTON, July 2l.-A
TOR has heen received from m
tary officer of high rank III
West, expressing the belist belief :, ,
there is danger of an attack u
the army by 1900 Of Sitting q b, ;,
hostile Indians. Sitting bu,, u
self is reported to be peacefully,
lined, but is urged on to hostla' y
Wv his chiefs. The immediate g 9
= III, ns. il said to be tne re
-ess, atoms made by We.
Mics to patrol the ooraei
bughlE.