New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-23
EXPLOSIONS IN CLINT PowDER UoRES
BETWEEN THIRTY AND FORTY CHINAMEN KILLED
Al POINT CLEMENT CAL

BI.TWErS THIRTY AND FORTY CHINAMEN KILLED
Al POINT CLEMENT, CAL.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22.-lt is impossible
NJ yet 10 the exact loss Of life by the explosion
on Sunday In the Giant Powder Works
at POINT Clement. near West Berkeley, nut
II is estimated that between thirty and forty
persons were killed The total loss will reach not less
than 500 600, tue Giant Powder Works sustaining q
damage OF $50 OOO and the SAID works Of Judson Co.
% 40 600 The first explosion occurred about o'clock
IN packing housc in which about TWO hundred pounds
Of powder stored. 1t is not known whether any
one killed by the first explosion OF not AZ soon as
the explosion IN the packing house occurred number OF
Cinnamon employed in The other departments fed for
their lives and had reached open space when the ex
rosion I'm the nixing house took place, killing most OF
the fleeing mon. il is thought that T. kOmpt The assist
ant superniendcn', was killed by this explosion. In
about a minute another explosion occurred IN one OF
lie smaller houses folio wed immediately by fourth cI
plosion which doubtless killed the surviving employee
August Forgot ky,'a workman, very seriously in
jurcd All other white men have been accounted for
and the dead men are all Cinnamon. There are some
thirty or forty houses The Point occupied by employees
Of the powder AMI acid works, the windows OF
which are shattered and the doors and aides,
IN many instances, dashed in by the conclusion.
After each explosion, the wood work Of the buildings
took fire and burned steadily for several hours Efforts
10 prevent the flames from reaching the main magazine,
containing m immense amount of powder, were happily
succcssful. The consequences would have been most
frightf had the large magazine exploded OF the
superlntendents stated that there Is enough powder
stored there 10 have destroyed every living thing the
Peninsula The cause OF the first explosion remains q
mystery.
Lest evening twelve bodies had been counted lying in
fbe debris and the COroncrs investigation will probably
disclose more than double that number force of men
were engaged last night in eHngushng the Ore aud re-
covering bodies. .,
San FRANCIsCo, Jan. GA Berkeley dispatch says:
Oscar FOrRofsky, a workman pulled from the ruins
soon after the explosion seriously hurt. seven Of the
Chinese have been taken from the denrH, al bady hhi
An inc hOuecs IN radius Of bali mic are conulctely
shattered doors ana windows OF the dwellings OF
the empOycs on the opposite side OF the h are DloWh
in, and most OF the occupants were InroWn 20 ne
JudsOn Works the hillside where Dasl ihB oNu'I rs
manufactured, were thrown over, anu VIII p!OpdDy
have 10 be rebuilt -. -.
loaded In schOOners M the wharf y uTlFcI
with team and load OF powder on the wharf juniper
into the water when the FIRST explosion WIS ntaIu anu
escaped lust his WaCOu-Oad exploded. Tie .WhAu
took lire ana burned rapidly. Hospitals were inlro'
Viscd the unchanged houses, and Inc wounded were
cared for. Physicians came from Oakland aud other
towns THIS 1.-THE most disastrous explosion tbat mas
ever occurred at these works. .
A dispatch from Oakland says that one Chnaman ded
last night in the temporary hospital 50 far Gs known Gt
noon one white and twenty-five Cinnamon were
could have saved himself but remained TO try aud
gave the works. When tie first explosion occurred, he
ran to, he glyccrne house 20 turn on water 10 eN
tinruish The fire. but killed by the explosion OF TINS
honse ~ IA thought that eight or Ten bodies
are i'm the ruins Oscar Forgofsky, the only white
man injured will probably recover Thirteen wounded
are lying the quarters OF the Chinese Inc
greater number Of these Will recover.