Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-11-11
HUNDREDS SLAIN.
A Ship Load of Dynamite Explodes
at Santander, Spain.
Three Hundred citizens Killed and Over
400 Wounded-Many buildings Blown
Down-Fire Follows and Com
pletes tho Ruin.
HORROR ABROAD.

HORROR ABROAD.
SANTANDER, Spain, Nov. by the
explosion of ship load of dynamite
Friday night hundreds of persons were
killed and half of the town destroyed.
Crowds were on the quay watching the
vessel burn when suddenly her |
dangerous cargo blew up, in |
stantly killing the daring fire |
fighters and spectators, scatter |
ing parts of the burning boats all over |
the city and wrecking many buildings. |
Fire followed the explosion, which |
many took for an earthquake, and be- |
fore it could be checked half the |
town was in ruins In the excite
mcnt the number of dead was placed
at 1000, but 800 is probably nearer the
correct figure. Among the dead are
the governor of the province, the pre-
feet, the chief of police and two judges.
The marquis of Pombo is missing and
it is believed he is among the dead.
LONDON, Nov 7.-The Madrid cor
respondent of the Standard in his re-
port about the Santander disaster says
that after the explosion terror-stricken
crowds on the wharf rushed off in the
maddest disorder, trampling each other
down and carrying panic into the city,
The burning debris set fire to the rail-
way station ut Solarcs, 13 miles distant
from Santander.
Fifty private houses on Mendos and
Vigos streets were destroyed by the
flames In addition to these losses,
several important public buildings and
valuable archives were burned before
any headway could be gained on the
fire.
Among the victims were the civil
governor, several judges, the captain
of the port, his daughter, the colonels
commanding the troops and gendarmes,
several government official, officers,
magistrates policemen, soldiers and
Marquis Casatombo.
Official kilograms state that many
bodies have been recovered from the
bay of Biscay and from the ruins. The
material losses chiefly consist of the
great number of houses burned and
which are valued at e500,000.
| According to official kilograms the
| latest accounting shows that 800 per-
sons were killed and $50 wounded
The scene following the blowing-up
of the steamer is almost indescribable,
and the effect of tie explosion of these
4SO cases of dynamite will hardly be be-
lieved. The power of the explosive
shot tons of iron into the air, where it
mingled With the burning fragments of
the steamship, tug and wooden quay,
as we'll as with the mangled bodies of
hundreds of the unfortunate people
who were hurled upward at the same
time.
Over the adjoining buildings totter-
ing with wreckage fell n shower of iron
followed by huge pieces of wood and
the remains of human bodies, and above
all dropped flaming splinters which set
fire to hundreds of buildings causing a
scene of panic similar, one would i'm
agine, to the one which would have
succeeded the bursting forth of vol
cano at the waters edge.
The force of the exploding dynamite
caused such conclusion that in addi-
ton to shaking hundreds of buildings
off their foundations it actually sunk
hundred small craft in the harboI
in addition to setting fire to "A large
number of other vessels and starting
confagrations upon several of the
larger ships, including the Alfonso
NIL, which vessel caught fire so sud
denly and burned SO fiercelv that forty
OF her crew lost their lives on board o
:, her.
The effect of the explosion upon thu
inha abitants of Santander was bewild
ering. For some time after the dis
aster they We're positively stunned
: with dismay and then followed pani
l during which 100 people are re
ported to have gone stark mad, Will
e the vast majority We're so paralyzeC
with fear and shock that they We're IN
Il capable of moving to the assistance O
D the dying or of making any effort t.
: extinguish the flames, which sprung u
from a mass of buildings and which be
J, gan to spread with the most threaten
y ing rapidity. The quay and prorae
8 made close to the scene of the explc
sion presented the most sickle ain
d sight ever witnessed. Mangled an
3 blackened corpses were scattered her
e and there or were in heaps in man
o cases upon the wounded and dying
IS whose fearful shrieSs of agony file
IS the air and struck terror into tn
3 hearts of those who after a time sun
moned sufficient courage to ventur
& near.
n Over 100 are said to have been pr,
s. cipitated into the sea by the explosion
Is and there beneath this hail of bloo'
It wood and iron they met death with I'll
10 crews of the unfortunate steamer an
the tugboat which was about to to
d her into the bay. On board the tui
T. boat were many citizens of Santande
Of who were taking part in the work (
c. rescue. All of theta have disappears
7. forever
l. A train from the province which W;
a just arriving at the railroad static
rs when the Cabo Machichaco blew l
20 experienced the force of the explosio
IL was wrecked and set fire to and Il
majority of its passengers were burn'
y. tl, laath Lefare a n ,ssist noe conll