Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-21

that brush iro would not have any effect upon the building. You know some one of, our men go out there every day, as we sell large amount of dynamite and some one has to go after 1t. There was about half ton of 1t there yesterday.
 But am sure the dynamite would not have gone up If 1t were not for fifteen kegs of powder which were also stored there.
 '"The magazine was built of wood, stone and brick. It has been there ten years and only one objection has been made against 1t during that time. Contractors in Waterbury have to have dynamite and somebody must sell 1t. We thought our house was safe distance from the city. When we are rebuilding we will go out further If the oficials say SO.
 Monday we sold three hundred pounds of dynamite and we sold a couple of cases yesterday. When We rebuild our magazine we will in all probability place 1t, under ground. Our loss is between $500 and 5000. But we don't mind that much" con cluded Mir Templeton, 'as long as no one was hurt"
 | It seems that the house of Stephen Cassidy on Birch street was the most badly injured of any in the city Windows were broken, shingles knocked off the roof, bricks hurled from the chimney, casing torn away, and the whole house in general up- set. MT Cassidy places his loss at about $700.
 Two large plate glass windows in the cafe of William Burns on East Main street across from Wall street were taken out cleanly by the ex- plosion. There was not a bit of glass left in the front part of the store.
 Charles Maher, who keeps dry goods store nearby also suffered the loss of big window.
 Almost all the windows in the home of H. B. Kilborn on the Vol | colt road were broken as were many other windows on the street.
 Other things destroyed were: Plate glass window, Patrick Han Ions saloon at 1S7 East Main street. several windows in the block owned | by Frank Elbins at Ward street and plate glass window in the roof of s. J. Abram; several large win .dows in the home of Ervis Wright at Haywood; large plate glass win- dow in the store of Mrs Ida Leavitt at 861 North Main street; plate glass window in the, store of HaddolI brothers on East Farm street; num- erous windows were broken in the | Walsh and Webater schools while
 almost all the factories in the city
 will have to have many new lights
 of glass.
 The explosion shook the Jacques
 and Polls theaters and the big l globe in, the alleyway leading to
 the gallery of Polls was smashed
 by the shock.
 l Hundreds of houses all through
 the city had one or more windows
 broken-in fact so many people had
 their property injured in some way
 that 1t would take much space tc
 mention theeir names.
 1 st Itswas amusing, to watch people 1T l.Exchange place immediately after the accident. It took only momenl for many to think that the explosion Eoccurred in Lyra hall on Phoeni,
 avenue. In less than two minutes
 there were about one thousand Ipeople in front of the building where
 this hall is located. A few window, were smashed there. It was Clip Iper" Smith who noticed the smoke
 in the air and shouting to the crowd There it is" set everybody on tht
 run. We'll the crowd which was in
 creasing all the time started Ill
 Phoenix avenue, over Abbott avenue
 through Kingsbury street and dowl
 North Elm. At the corner of Nortl
 Elm and Water streets there was ,
 crowd which resembled multitude
 and 1t was getting bigger every min
 ute. It assumed tremendous propor
 tions at this time-two more report
 CTS fell in line.
 | The advance guard then "beat 1t
 through onto Cherry from Maple ave nue and then up Walnut, hitting tn, trail along Wall avenue and thei travelling over Wall street, the top o } which seemed like a precipice. The.
 had to go the last few laps througl a COW path.
 Some of the. tales in connection , with the explosion are so thrilling that the stories of the Arabian Night
 seem tame in comparison. Why, t ! hear the experiences of some of tn, natives of this city one would i'm agine that the old city of Waterbur, 7 was sent into oblivion yesterday ant : we are living in new world to-day
 The fairy yarns of ancient day l would be very dull reading If lai, : alongside of the account of yester 7 days explosion-as some people i'm , agined 1t.
 There were half dozen chickel : coops on Oak street which wer ' turned upside down. The inmate are all doing we'll.
 , Plate glass windows in the Case and Donnelly blocks on Baldwin ' street were smashed by the shock. : Officer sam, Walsh was doin : duty on Baldwin street and thinkin the explosion was in the Scovill fac tory started for the shop. He finall landed at Berkeley Heights, wher the explosion took place.
 Two reporters of one of the dailie , who were having their afternoon te in Dexter's were rudely disturbed b the crashing report. It was awfull 3 horrid when one of the cups left tn fah1o and landed tho frauearc n