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Show DEATH AND DKSTUU0T1ON. Salt I. Ac's Kioi'cost and Most Tt'irildo Disaster. brtvY Tons of Sporting, lllast-iu, lllast-iu, 11 r it u le s ami (iiaut l'on uVr Evplodo, Causing n IV a i lul Desli'iirtiou of Property. Hart Ii4imUe liroini4t'4l WIM 1114' ix nit: TWO llOYS TO UN IN IMKCKS, A WOMAN llOKlilMl.Y MANGLED MANG-LED AND A LAD CRUSH El). Hunting I'ur IMooo- i" Mrsh by hicli to Kt'i'ouiiixfi Ilic Irtliii-i. Itouuro or Arnciml 11111 I ! April 5th, in (this Centennial year, will bo riii-orded in the annals of Suli Lake city as tho day upon which occurred oc-curred its mast fearful disunion We scarcely uoed inform our readers within ten miles of this city that tho powder magazines on Arsenal hill exploded yesterday. All know it, and hundreds are suflerers by the great oaiastropho. A few minutes beforo 5 o'clock last evening, a defoaning noiio was heanl, and tho whole city and country for miles around shook and trembled. The fearful sound had not dial away before a second and louder one fol lowtd, and a moment afterwards a thiid and still louder came. The first had created a panic in thu upper part of town, which was sue- ceeded by dire consternation, l'eople I rushed madly in every direction, I scarcely kuowing whither thoy were going. Many women fainted and ' loll iu the streets. Stro.ig men were paslralt'd; teams broke their fastenings fasten-ings and tore wildly hither and yon; houses swayed to and fro; doors were wrenched from their hinges; plaster crumbled from the walls and ceiliugt .'ell; the sidewalks on East Tempi street, from Third South to South Temple, were in ft moment stiewu with bits of gla. "Day of judgment" was shouted by many tongues, and, indeed, the seemingly prevailing impression was that tho world had j "come to au end," aud tho work of final destruction had commenced in S-ilt Lake. Sumc dropped to their knees, aud earnestly tug.in preparing ur an try into tho gii'at hereafter, by attempting to make their peace wiih God. It would have been interest in c, to watch tho maueuvres ol men; but just at that time no one happened to be sufficiently composed in his own miud to calmly ob-erve the actions of others. Feoplo residing north of South Temple street were doubly frightened, and with cause. A shower of cobbles, boulders and huge chunks ofconcrete, descended on a portion por-tion of the 13th, 10th, 17th, ISth, 19th and 20th ward, crushing through roofs, ploughing into the gardens and streets, and staking to death at least two persons. The aeperate, heedless panic lasted but a minute, when it was succeeded by another wild rushing of humanity, this time with a definite object in view. Huge clouds of smoke arose from Arsenal hill, which explained all. The magazines had exploded, and there was. a general stampede for the scene. THE MAGAZINES. There were four magazines oq the hill about one mile north and east o f the Temple block. Tho first was owned by the Hazard powder company, com-pany, for which Z. C. M. I. is agent. The second, about 100 feet in the rear of the first, was Du Pont's, Mr. B. W. E. Jenoens, agent. Still behind this and about 100 feet distant, and perhaps per-haps eighty feet from each other, were two magazines, one belonging to the California powder company, the other to the Oriental powder company, com-pany, for both of which the Messrs. Walker Brothers are agents. One of these had two compartments, one used by Messrs. G. M. Scott & Co. for storing Hercules powder, of which they are agents. The magazines were tubstantially : built of Btone and coucrete. The doors were iron, and the roofs metal, I and wc-re considered absolutely sate . houses for the purpose. , THE EXPLOSION. At the time of the oxplosiou there was nearly forty tons of powder sporting, blasting, giant and Herculesin Her-culesin the four magazines. The Walker Brothers had about ten tons of blasting, besides a quantity of giant; Z. C. M. I. about the same amount; Jennens, fifteen tons, blasting blast-ing and sporting; Scott Si Co., three and a half tons Hercules. There are few explosions on record where so large an amount of powder has been burnsd. Greater destruction of life and property hag frequently occurred, and good luck aluue has the credit that this disaster was not more terrible ter-rible in its results. Scores of providential provi-dential escapes from death are: reported. It is the subject ot wonder and congratulation that so few lives were lost. It is not known, and will probably remain a myBtery, which of the magazines first exploded. ex-ploded. Two explosions occurred so i nearly at the same instant that the , double report could barely bo distinguished. dis-tinguished. THE CAUSE. There are many theories as to tho cause of the catastrophe. The one m03t likely to be correct is the following: fol-lowing: Yesterday a couple of young men Charles Richardson and Frank Hill went up City Creek canon to drive some cattle. They were returning return-ing by way of the magazines, and while near the latter were seen to fire, it is thought, at some cranes that were flying over. The discharge of the gun was instantly followed by the explosions. It may have been that the boys shot at one of the magazine doors, cauaing a concussion sufficient to explode the Hercules and Giant powder. It has been the careless and most reprehensible and dangerous practice ever since the magazines wore built, to make rifle and pisiol targets of the doors, some of which bore the indentations of scorn of bullets. Whether or not it wa; this practice that occasioned tho explosion, ex-plosion, ft fearful lessoq has been aught, and at a Ifiiibln price if lifn and propt'rty. The magn.iin a weru eompliiuly demolished, and tho ma-ttnial ma-ttnial ol winch tlit-y wim'c iMnairuelod aciillnrrd fur liliU' in .dl ilim'tiitus. Nii 'i in ht.Hio laid mi luji ot another, and wlici'o tho tituld Iti nlnod, du- liulis wi'ie loin in thu catlli. l-OSi Ut1' l.lt'K. It is definitely known that four purtuma Welti killed, and it U bitlii-vcd that others have polished. Hundreds Hund-reds ul" mm, women, Imys and giiU, nere on tbo ground within twenty minutes atlor the expliminu. A suarch waH inntitittwd, and Boon a mangled foot was found. Next was disco vured a human nealp Willi hair attached; a piece ot tleah from the thigh was then picked up, and afterwards another fiol in a boot, 1 with a portion of tho leg attached. . and the toes and part of a third foot;1 bits of tlesh, soino weighing only an ounce or two, and ol tiers two or lliree pounds, and other parts of bodied. I I'ieo 'a ot clothing wore also found.! The tleah and rags were scattered over an area ol hall a milo. Portions ol the elulhuiK and bodies picked up have been recognized as those ol the young nun Uichardsou and Hill. I'lio former was the son of Dr. Dai-win Dai-win Uichurdpou, deceased, and Mis. (.Jraco liiciiardtion, who resides in the Mih ward, lie was IS years of age. Hill was hi years old, and tho son wl Mr. Aielno ilill, l'.HIi ward. Mrs. Mary Jane Van Natta, wife ol .1. H. Vim Natta, P.hh ward, was pumping water at Jin woll ol .Mr. Win berg, opposite her own residence, when a Uinlder struck her in the haek, killing her instantly. Tho rock passed through tho body, horribly crushing and mangling it. The boulder hud leen thrown at least three, tpmrlers ol a mile from the tiiagi.itien. Master James II. Radden, a lad : years old, in tho -Oth ward, win struck by a rock and instantly killed. PKKSONAL 1NJUKIK9. At this time it would bo impossible to detail all of tho injuries resulting to persons. Numbers were knocked igainst walls, others were thrown to ttie ground unconscious, many were bruised and hurl, and not a few were hit by fullum stones. Charles John m, 10th ward, was struck on the hip by a cobblo and considerably bruised. Mrs. l'ter Thomasson, "20 1 li ward, was hit with a piece of iron which severely laceraltd tbo hVsh of her arm. A piece of rock cut ofl tho tip of an siar ot a little son of Mr. D. I. Kimball, Kim-ball, ISth ward. A pirtition in Mr. Collet t's hctixe, 10th ward, was thrown down on the little son ol tho gentleman, bruising the bor ; not serious. Mrs! Dahlquist, at Mr. S. J. Jonas son's, had her arm severely torn by a piece of falling planter. Kesides the abovu several person. in ttie 17lh, ISth, l'.iili, aud AMi w irds were hit by cobblus and more or has injured. damage to riiormiTY. Any c?timato at this time of the amount of damage dune to property would bo merely a guess. The greattst Utss is probably in glass. Main street presented a scene of destruction de-struction in that respect. Scores of huge plate windows, valued at from to $o00 each, were crumbled into tine b:U. With a single exception, the elegant French plates in the Deseret bank atjd Sharp's building, wiTfl broken. Two of the lari:e ulales in the now Z. C. M. I. store were shivered, and some of tho smaller windows p stairs were broken. I One of the matsivo aheets in Walker! Brothers' store was splintered. Also, Raybould's, SlringfeUow Brothers, Dwyer's, and nmuy olUuie. The magnificent window in tho Lgle Emporium was wrecked. The Wuiker house, Townsend house and other hotels, lost hundreds of dollars in glass alone. Hundreds of residences resi-dences were left with scarcely a whole pane of glass in them. There aro very few houses within a mile and a half of the explosion, ex-plosion, but suflered in this respect, while many were greatly damaged otherwise. Walls were cracked and others thrown down, chimneys were demolished, doors were broken, and furniture and crockery destroyed. And this damage was not confined to houses within the limit prescribed above. Many breakages occurred in the 10th ward on the eastern limit ol the city, in the 3d ward on the south and oth and olb on tho west. The whole city suflered in proportion to its proximity to the magazines. Among the private residences damaged dam-aged tho most are those of Hon. W. H. Hooper, l'Jth ward, in which the windows were, with a few exceptions, entirely destroyed, and a rock went through the roof; Mr. 3. Jonason's, l'Jth ward, whica is a pretty complete com-plete wreck as regards glass, doors, ceilings, etc. A rock also tore a piece off the roof; Bishop Raleigh's brick house, near the Warm springs, damaged "by a falling rock and breaking of glass; Mr. Dean's house l'Jth ward; Mr. Johnson's in the same Mr. E. H. Parsons', 20th Ward; Mr. John T. Caine's, 20l1i Ward; Major Bird's, Hth Ward; Geo. Saville's house, 20'.h Ward, completely wrecked. wreck-ed. It will cost probably $3,000 or :j$4,000 to repair the damage to some of the above. The Empire mill, in City creek canon, directly below the magazines, was shattered and ahncet, torn to pieces; as also was the adjoining adjoin-ing residence of the miller, Mr. J. Sudbury, some members ot whose family were slightly hurt. The houses over the reservoirs at the head ot the water works were crushed in and destroyed. THE SHOWER OF ROCKS. There was A furiouB and destructive storm of rocks in the upper part of the citv, and many narrow escapes from death occurred. A huge boulder fell through the roof and upper floor of H. P. Kimball's Kim-ball's house. Another weighing: about twenty pounds crushed through tho roof and ceiling of Col. Pace's residence, falling on a bedroom floor, where it lodged. One struck a plank walk at the Dcseret university, went through the boards and buried itself in the earth. A rock weighing 115 pounds fell through the roof, ceiling and floor of Sbingleton's saloon, opposite oppo-site trie theatre, and sank four feet in the ground beneath. This rock had been hurled more than a mile through the air. Another boulder weighing forty pounds went through tho roof and two floors of Mayor Little's new residence. Another! through the barn of Mr. George Dun-j Dun-j ford, 17th ward. A rock weighiug thirty-six pounds went over the mu-I mu-I scum and buried itself in tho lot behind. These are but a few instances where rocks were hurled from a half to a mile and a half, and did damage. INCIDENTS. At the time of the explosion Mr. Marcena Cannon, in the 17th ward, waa working by a lighted lamp, which was overturned bj the shock. The oil ignited and set fire to his house. Water being at hand the flames were immediately extinguished. exting-uished. A little silver bar was thrown through the window of Mr. George Lufkina' residence, two blocks west ot the Townsend house. It is thought that one ol the young men who were killed had the bar in his pocket when the explosion occurred. YiHtorday ii fieri in in a c:-. i wd ol hoys went playing hue bill mi tin ll.U about eighty ro I wvl o (In mugiuin.'s, It iv.ii lh--y who nan RichanUm and Mill ti:.i t; in gun. When the pxplotimi occur, r I the boys were pnnlr ited, and a eouplo oi I he in we I'd uucoiitfcioiH for he vera I minutes h'om the lurco of thu nbock. CAUTION. Much of the black powder did not bin i nt tho time of tint explo-ioti, and lies scattered all over the hill. Siraugw ai it in iv appear, namr of lint ki-;n wero not buisteil, whiUt the, demolition demo-lition and destruction of everything thing elan wiih hi) complete. The metal nulls were torn into hi tit and sealtertsl to the lour wuhIm, und whole, kegi of powder picked up a short di.-ilant from where tho bounce itnod. Them was much of the Her-eulcn Her-eulcn and uiant pow ler thai did not explode, and now lien ucatlercd over the lull. This powder is a dangerous now as over, and peoplo should avoid going on the hill, unless lliey court destruction. There is enough power in a slick of Hercules powder to liter-a'ly liter-a'ly tear in pieces an nrmy, and a slight concurt.Mon might cause it to oxplodn. Tho terribly disa.it or did not miem to have tho thu ell'eet ol imparting caution to nome yesterday. Parties picked up and eareleHsly bundled the. slicks of powdnt , and some of it whs carried to tbo city by men and Imvs. Keep u!l' A rsenal hill ! THE INOJ'lr. Coroner Taylor will hold an impiewt ul tho city ball this nfternooii at o'clock, over the pieces uf corpses that hftve been found. |