Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-08
NEWS BY T[LEGRIPH.
 From All Quarters. FORTY FIVE MEN KILLED. Disastrous Explosion at
 Spokane Falls. A CYCLONE IN WEST VIRGINIA. Terrible Wreck on the Den-
 yer and Rio Grande. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT CLEVELAND. The Central Train Wreck
 CTS Apprehended.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT CLEVELAND.
A PREMATURE EXPLOSION.

= Accidental Discharge of Two Hqn- dred Pounds of Giant Powder Many Men Killed-A Great Mass of Rock Hurled over Into . Cut Workmen Buried Beneath the De. bris-The Work of fRescue-Twenty- seven Men Still UnaccOunted for.
 SPOKANE FALLS, Wash, Sept. 7.-Sat urday evening premature explosion of a blast in the Northern Pacific yards killed a large number of men. The full extent of the disaster is unknown. Just before the hour of quitting work, large force of men were engaged in blasting out huge rock pit in the Northern Pacific freight yards in the eastern part of the city. From fifty to seventy-fve men were at work in the pit at the time.
 Some of the workmen were preparing blasts to be touched off after the other workmen and teams had departed for the night. One blast had been prepared. In putting in the second it was exploded, the jar also touching off the first blast. Twenty-Five thousand cubic feet of rock was thrown over upon the unsuspecting mass of humanity with terrible results. Hundreds of people soon gathered at the scene, and the work of taking out the dead and injured has since been going on. The scenes at the hospital are heartrend- ing. The wives and relatives of the work men are crazed with grief and suspense.
 Time only heightens the horrors wrought by the premature explosion. At il o'clock to-day the men engaged in the task of talk ing out the victims were forced to desist, because among the rocks which were being cleared away were five other blasts that might be exploded in the task of removing the mass of debris that buried the victims. Up to that hour eighteen bodies had been taken out. Of these, the following have been identified:
 Henry Jacobini Veyeiller, Henry Aptell, Charles veyeiller, Andrew Pnellonely, F. A. Hahn, Joseph Ray, John Cartlini, James McPherson, Roy Pinkney, B. Vitter, J. Talbi, A. w. Warren, Isaac Johnson, Dan McArthur, Homer Olsen. There are yet twenty-seven men unaccounted for, all of whom are probably buried beneath the mighty wreck.
 There were about 200 pounds of giant powder in the blast. The accident was caused by some one's care1essness. The man in charge of the blast and three as sistants were blown to atoms. It seems that one blast had been prepared and the foreman, c. McPherson, was pre- pairing second while the men had all fin ished their work and were making ready te go home after their days work when they met horrible and unexpected death. Either the rock was too hot from the ac ton of the drills, or else tamping exploded the second blast and that exploded the first
 The men were working in cut, leyelint off the ground for the new yards. Int cliff of rock on the side of the cut whicl was being removed was twenty feet high The blasts are so arranged that the rock ii thrown toward the cut. Not anticipating the blast about thirty men were under tn cliff when the blast exploded. A grea mass of rock and earth raised in the ai and pitched over into the cut, burying tn men beneath Over 100 men at work il the adjoining cuts as once began to hun | for the buried bodies. From all over tn huge mass of rock groans and shrieks is | sued, and the air was filled with the aI peals of the wounded and dying. A shol half hour and all was still, except for tn workingmen who, by the light of lanterns worked late into the night removing tn dead bodies.
 | A later account says, although larp force worked to-day until all the rock di loged was removed, no more bodies wel found The number of dead found lal night was fourteen. In addition to tn number one man died at the hospital, an it is reported that two more badly injure have died at their homes during the day
 General Foreman Charles Bolt state that forty-two men were in the gang work in the cut at that ledge Of tn number fifteen and perhaps seventeen a, dead Eight are in the hospital and it h,
 so far been impossible to determine u
 whereabouts of the other men. Of the
 many supposed to have been hurt wi
 probably be present at the roll call to-mo
 row. Until then the number missiI
 cannot be determined. Funeral servic
 will be held tomorrow at 10 o'clock at u
 morgue over the remains of the fifte,
 dead and publicsburial. will be given.