POWDER MAGAZINE AT SALT LAKE CITY BLOWN UP.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 616, 9 June 1876, Page 3

POWDER MAGAZINE AT SALT LAKE CITY BLOWN UP.

The following telegram appears in a San Francisco paper :—“ Ogden, April 6, —Three distinct reports followed each other in such in nearly every building in the city were simultaneously shaken out, and chimneys .fell in. Many teams on the streets ran away, ‘Everybody and everything for a few minutes 'seemed terror-stricken. , { D,ense columns oi, smoke ?osK*WillOv6nderrili velocity c at each successive explosion and spread out grandly into a cloud that stretched nearly across the r valley. When the people recoveredrtheir equilibrium great crowds on foot and by various conveyances started for the immerdiatej scene of the explosion. On arriving there' they found that where four magazines had. stood, four holes were loft, and the ground was strewn with small fragments of the buildings, an iron door being the ■ only whole thing from the wreck. For half - a mile around, had fallen a per* feet |shower stones -M. pieces of ycaßsy .and . a. few of the unfortunate man prmen who were blown in|d eternity , by the terrible explosion. A portion oif a human scalp, with hair 03 jit,; was first:' found, then the foot and a portion of one leg, nearly to the knee, was picked up. Finally, another foot,and leg to above a boot andsfeme fragments ofl’a* pair of pantaloons oh it. Other small portions of its® Sand nlgthfog wet 6 found vstfewn pro- 1 mi §cuba«lx;alonglthe fresh earth and stdnes —notiehough picked up altogether to weigh 201bs. The buildings in City Greek Canon, immediately We r aittib r St 3 completely demolished. Brigham Young’s. Fmpire flourmiU was blowi! .lb niins. ' 'The mil/from the explosion down to. the creek, in the r canon, was thickly strewn wjto , the fragments of wood, ,%i‘the f.West side ijothidg but rocks fell. At the time of the explosion thirty boys wme playing ball on, the Deseret has©, ball groririds,behind the old city )wall, down the hill, westerly from the, magazines. They say that two or three hoys were noticed at the magazines a short time before- the occurrence. Their attention was directed that way the 'flyjf)fe[df r sA gun/ which! was immediately followed by the first explosion, the concussion of which knocked jtjiem : down, About the time they were! bioking themselves up to run to a place of safetyithe second explosion occurred, knockv ing them down -agaifa arid showering' about' them rocks of all sizes. Some of these boys• say the shot heard immediately preceding sthe explosion, was -fifed ' at *t flock of’ wild geese that happened to be flying over. Thri appearance of the city after the explosion bore strong, testimony- to the power of forty- five-tons pf-poyder,there beirig scarcely a houqe'fiot 'more or less damaged by . the shocks; The windows of the Emporium buildings are all more or less shattered. The Exchange 'building, Deseret National Bank, Colder 1 and Careless’, Dwyer’s, W. F. Raybould’s, Wasatch drug stole, and the Cooperative store, each lost from one to three large lights of plate glass by the shocks. The city presented a worse appearance than it would if it had been shelled by veterans of the war. The loss on the powder buildings is' estimated at 26,000d015, while the damage done the buildings iri the city cannot be calculated. Five lives are known to have .been lost, and possibly more. Two boys were blown to pieces—Mrs Y annetta’s little bojtr Raddon, and. ,babe. Joseph H. Raddon, aged' 1 fivebr six years, a son of James Raddon, of the 20th Ward, was sitting

x, UP — «L- v* ' -A* “ '“T“ in his father’s back yard playing, when a stone weighing four or fire pounds struck him, passing through his chest and catting put his heart and lungs, killing -him instantly. A boulder weighing, fifty pounds struck the r :tbbf of 1 Mhybr Littlera new house, and passed through floors. ,Aj rock went flying through the reof of George Saville’s house in the 20th Ward, and knocked the chimney down. Matihiesaon and Johnson’s wagon depot on First Bast street, near the theatre, was visited by a ten pounds rock, which went crashing through the roof. Mary Jane Vanetta was struck by a boulder, and instantly killed. In one of the upper wards a baby was killed in its mother’s arms by a falling rock. In Camp Douglas, four miles distant from the explosion, the buildings were terribly shaken ; no damage done. Piece's of human flesh, resembling inked sponge, were brought to the Tribune office last evening. One of Brigham Young’s daughters was sitting near a bay window at the time of the concussion. The glass was shattered, and a piece fell on her head, inflicting a severe scalp wound. Heber P. Kimball’s house, Main street, had a close call from a, hundred-pound boulder, which passed through the roof and floor into the cellar, MCst of these are over a mile from the exploded magazine.

** Yesterday, Archie Hill, aged sixteen years, with a companion, hunting on the beach, failed to pat in an appearance. Both were sepn at one of the magazines shortly before the explosion. It is supposed that one fired a ball, which, passing through the door of the building, penetrated a keg of powder, and through its- heated condition ignited it, thus causing the explosion.”