Show CHAPTER OF DISASTERS THIRTEEN MEN KILLED BY AT MARE asland AND S A destructs a tornado visit vilt ch cha ahro at ilfe ava gi 1 fit I by loss io of I 1 lety losses I 1 a scene grene of dilapidation I 1 to s property SA SAN q francisco june juna 14 bout 1130 elock an explosion it at the mare island navy yard ithe filling house where shells are char chard d by which twelve men were killed and ani three probably fatally injured the victims were george hittinger acting gunner and eleven sailors alors com the pit feted ed states cruiser boston down at the ma magazine magadi gazi there belched forth into the sky an hamen ini mense se cloud of smoke and for half an hour hoar report after report was heard as the hells exploded immediately the entire navy yard force rushed for i the lie scene the first spectacle to greet them was waa the burned and charred bodies of two RP apprentice Prentice sea men on the beach yarda from the magazine farther ona on a terrible sight eight met their gaze e 1 in ic the midst of the ruins and allu au aronal n r orind on the side hills were seen bodies and nd pieces of bodies scattered here and there bodies were taken out as fast as possible and when an all were put alongside each other they counted twelve with gunner hittinger of the boston at the head some were cut in two others were minus a leg 0 or an arm or head twelve were killed outright ont right and three were taken to the hospital wounded but dying the cuticle of almost the entire bodies of these two as well as their clothes was blown off and yet they were conscious find and able to move butwill ant will die how did it ha happen pen was as the question aked by hundreds no one can ever tell A working party of fifteen men from the united states steamship boston was down to prepare ammunition and fill shells for the ship all were at work in the filling room of the in agazine magazine ander under charge of gunner hittinger it is ia supposed one of the party dropped tj thell shell and that the concussion caused the explosion 1 ar R died of his injuries and was the only one who said a word of his experience ence in the explosion before death he said that all he he knew was that he suddenly found himself flying through the air when found he bad a f piece of board clean through his body coroner kind who held an inquest was waa interviewed he says no one is left ta aa tell sell what was the real cause of the explosion 1 1 1 a that there were two explosion TUB two men in the hospital will die as they are burned almost to a crisp in 11 chicago la i A small sized tornado this city between 3 and 4 the rainfall was terrific tl of cf c f water I 1 in many places being s s that it was frados sible to see bm bin ia across the width of a street the full 1 force of the wind struck the southwest corner of the homo home insurance building occupied by the union national bank breaking large plate glass class windows so terrific waa the shock sh ck that the plates were carried bodily into the bank hurled half way across the counting room and chattered bhatt ered into fragments upon the desks deik and fixtures J H odell president of the lank bank was struck on the thigh by a fragment of glass and severely cut the other occupants of the bank escaped unhurt several small email plate glass windows in other parts of th the e building were demolished and many of the young women employed in the offices fainted the great canvass canopy over the wigwam in which will be held the national democratic convention was torn to tatters and so utterly ruined mined that t the he contractors determined 14 U have done with it and use instead a timber roof A number of pillars will be erected to support the roof it is feared that this arrangement will the ac caustics of the amphitheatre but there is no way to avoid it work was begun on the roof and the contractors declare e the wigwam g will be ready for the convention at the stated time twenty minutes before tho the storm broke brake forth a boat with three men in it was noticed on on almost even line with the south pier about five miles out in the lake after the storm the boat was waa found capsized there beems little doubt that the three men lost their lives p armour elevator ID D on morgan street was struck by lightning and a portion at it deat roved in the ruins was waa found the body of charles 3 roberts a fireman who had been at work in the tb boiler room crushed crashed under a heavy iron docs william I 1 flossea ossea of south oakley struck on the abad by bv bricks from A a falling chimney and hia fais skull fractured ile he will probably die john lial a slate elate roofer working on the roof of 01 a douglass Don glass park green house bouse was down blown to the ground and so seriously injured that he will die john micheln Mi cheon B S lumber shover working in hines bros lumber yards was struck by flying boards and fatally injured list of the lillea killed GUSTAVE DOERING DOERIN bemia KLINA TOA MICHON ROBERTS Y STE WAItT three unknown men |