Mohave County miner., 1912-01-20
Terrible Accident.

people were startled by terrific ex- plosion that shook the buildings and lead them to believe that one of the big locomotives in the railroad yards had blown up. Almost instantly fol- lowing the explosion came a cry of fire and everybody rushed from their homes to see what had happened. It was soon apparent that the fire was in the store of the Arizona Stores Con- pany and that Raymond Carr, one of the heavy stockholders was somewhere In the building. The front doors of the building were broken open and a search party found MT. Carr lying near the front of the new addition to the building bruised, bleeding and suf- fering fearful pain. His cries had at tracted the searchers, but his first words to them was to leave him alone and put out the fire. A bucket bri- gade and the hose in the rear of the building soon had the fire out, and eX animation showed that a great hole had been torn through the floor of the building, entirely wrecking the office and lifting the ceiling and roof out of place. The plate glass front of the building was blown out and many of the show cases were broken. The sidewalk in front of the building was a filtered mass of broken glass. The force of the explosion was cratic, some of the glass in the show cases being intact, while the next glass was brok- en to atoms. The office desk was brok- en into matchwood and the papers and books torn into shreds. Mr. Carr, who was standing outside the desk when the explosion came was thrown against the ceiling and fell a short distance from where he originally stood. On the wood work, where the iron ceiling had been was a large splotch of blood showing that he had been blown up after the ceiling had been torn off. His leg was broken above the ankle, his nose smashed out of all semblance and slivers of wood driven into the wounds. His face was badly cut and fine slivers and dust blown into his mouth. tearing the palate. He was terribly injured and was at once rushed to the office of Dr.. A. l.. Tilton, where he and Dr.. Butcher worked over hlm several hours ex. tracing splinters;of wood and making him comfortable. He was taken to the California hospital the following eve1- ing, relatives and Dr.. Butcher ac- cOmpanying him.
 From the members of the Arizona Stores company we are informed that no powder had been stored in the base ment of the building and from what case came the explosion they are as much Tn the dark as anybody. On the outside of the office was stored many boxes of shotgun shells, and these had fallen into the basement when the eX- plosion occurred. At the time of the explosion Mr. Carr had shotgun in his hands and the gun was either fired before or immediately after the ex- ploslon
 When the debris was cleared from the basement no sign of the tffect of the explosion was to be found on the floor. the entire force having been up- ward
 The store was having an addition built on, covering the entire space from street to alley and this part was being completed and the rear wall of the old building was being torn out, leaving the building somewhat open. Mir. Carr volunteered to stay in the building during the night and had built a fire in the office stove and was preparing to go to bed when the acci- dent occurred. Had it not been for the prompt action of those first on the ground it is proba ble that the build ing would have been gutted by fire. As iC was the loss from that source was light and was covered by insur- ance.
 The managers of the company are young and verile men and will soon have things set to right and doing business on more extensive scale than ever.
 A wire from Los Angeles last night conveyed the information that Mr. Carr was getting along nicely and will