The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-09

baseball game was in progress a
short distance from the powder works
about o'clock this evening. The teams
were playing the last inning, and when
a fire was seen in one of the small
buildings OF the powder plant the crowd
began TO swarm up the hill to get a
better view of the blaze. Warning of
the danger came to the Onlookers in
two minor explosions soon after the
fire got we'll under way. A shower of
sparks and fragments of the wrecked
building fell among the spectators. and
there was a scurrying out of what
was considered the danger zone
Crowd Disregards Warming.
Some men in the crowd. aware of
the possibilities of the danger when
the main magazine was reached, plead
ed with the crowd to go still further
back and many of them needed the
the element of danger in the spectacle,
stood within 1000 yards of the burn
ing building They were kept on the
qut vlve by detonations that sent show
erS OF burning brands in all directions.
The baseball game broke up and the
rest of the spectators and the players
rushed mp to join the crowd at the fire.
1t was then that the magazine ex-
pioded There were two stunning deto-
nations. Everything within a radius
OF a mile and a half was torn and shat
tered. Giant trees were snapped off
close TO the earth; barns and dwelling
htdSSS we're converted into klndlfng
wood. and even in Ottawa, four miles
from the scene, hundreds of plate glass
windows were broken
me scene where the crowd from the
bail game stood resembled battle
field Headiess, armless and legless
bodies were lying about among scores
OF unconscious forms. The silence that
followed the final death-deaIiRg blast
was more terrifying than the cries and
means which came with A return ro
consciousness of the badly injured.
4 Terrific shock
The terrific shock brought thousands
OF terror-strlcken people into the
streets of the town. Some thought If
was an earthquake, while others cried
out that the comet had struck the
earth Hundreds of chimnevs were ton
| pied over and there is scarcely a. whole
WINDOW left in the northeastern sec
ton of the city
The first call for aid from the hos
pital and the police came from the Sec
ION or the city nearest the magazines
| mere 1t was found that fully forty
small frame dwellings had been shat
rerso and that many injured people
were imprisoned in the wreckage.
1t was fully an hour and a half after
l me explosion that word came into the
CITY OF the disaster. Ambulances and
du5oInoolIes were rushed to the scene
ana the seriously injured were carried
/ TO the Hull hospitals until there was
1 room Tor no more and then they verf
/ brought to Ottawa
In this city. four miles from In.
scene OF the explosion, the terror in.
| spired was scarcely less than tba+ n,
I HUH. The earth trembIed. buiIdine o,
| shook and hundreds of windows yveT,
shattered The great cloud of smol,.
that mounted in a column over HuI
! quickly indicated the true cause of ~,
| terrifying shock 'i''
Official buildings Damaged.
Rideau Hall. the official home r..
Earl Grey, and the buildings on Parlia.
ment hill caught the full force of I'll,
explosion, being two miles nearer tn,
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