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Show Fire Follows Explosion of Powder. Destroying Town. Bakerfleld, Cal. Flire originating in the freight warehouse at Caliente, a small town in the Tehachapi mountains, moun-tains, scattered by the explosion of over a ton of black powder and dynamite, dyna-mite, virtually destroyed the entire place. The flames reached the powder pow-der within ten minutes after discovery. discov-ery. Everyone was warned and not a person was injured. The report of the explosion was heard twenty miles away. Sixteen buildings in all were burned, the loss amounting to over $50,1)00. |