Show FIFTEEN ARE DEAD i FIFTY ARE INJURED Explosive Plant In Quebec Que ec Lets Go Laying Country Waste for Miles M les fiRE AI CROWD IS MOWED TO EARTH Baseball Fans in Twinkling of an Eye Changed to Unconscious Forms Among Headless Armless and Legless Bodies a TTA W A Ont May 8 An explosion today wrecked the plant of the General Explosives company of Canada near Hull 1 Quebec killing fifteen persons and injuring fifty others The force of the explosion was terrifying The country for miles around was laid waste Many small dwellings in the city of Hull 1 on the side nearest the scene of the explosion were flattened to the ground A baseball game was In progress a short distance from the powder works about 6 this evening The teams were vere playing the last Inning and when a fire was seen In one of or the small buildings of the powder plant the crowd began to swarm up the hill bill to get a better view of the blaze Warning of the danger came to the onlookers In two minor explosions soon after atter the fire got well ell under way ay A shower of or sparks and fragments of the wrecked building fell among the spectators and there was as a scurrying out of or what was considered the danger zone Crowd Disregards Warning Some men in the crowd aware of or orthe the possibilities of the danger when the main magazine was reached plead pleaded ed with the crowd to go still further back and many of or them heeded the warning Others apparently enjoying the element of danger in the spectacle stood within 1000 yards ards of the burn ing building They were kept on the qui vive lye by detonations that sent show showers sho ers era of ot burning brands In all nil directions The baseball game broke up and the rest of ot the spectators and the players rushed up to join the crowd at the fire tire It was then that the magazine ex were twO stunning deto detonations detonation detonations nations nation Everything within a radius or ot a mile utile and a half was torn and shat Giant trees were snapped off oU close to the earth barns and dwelling houses were converted into kindling wood and even In Ottawa four miles from the scene hundreds of plate glass windows were broken The scene where the crowd from the ball bal game same stood resembled a battle battIe field Headless armless and legless bodies were lying about among scores of unconscious forms The silence that followed foIl owed the final blast was more terrifying than the cries rles and moans which came with a return to consciousness of the badly injured A 4 Terrific Shock The terrific shock brought thousands of people into the streets of ot the town Some thought It was an earthquake while others cried S out that the Je comet had struck the earth Hundreds of chimneys were top pled over and there Is scarcely a whole window left in the northeastern sec see tion of the thern city The Th first t nail 11 q n nr T i n X 4 a me LU rC nos nus pita and the police came from the sec see tion of Je the City nearest the magazines There it was found that fully forty small frame dwellings had been shat and that many man Injured people were imprisoned In the wreckage It was fully an hour and a half after the explosion that word came into to the city of the e disaster Ambulances and automobiles were rus rushed ed to the scene and the seriously Injured were carried to f the Hu Hun Hull hosPItals until n l there was room for tor no more and then they were brought to Ottawa In this city four miles from th the scene of the explosion the terror In vas as scar cly less than that at ni Hull The earth trembled buildings shook and hundreds of windows werl were shattered The lei great cloud of smoke that mounted in a column over oer Hull HuIl quickly Indicated the true truc cause of the terrIfyIng shock Official Damaged Rideau Hall HaIl the official home of Earl Grey Gre and the buildings on Parlia ment hill caught the full futI force of th the explosion being two miles nearer the Continued on Pa P Two TITO i FIFTEEN m ARE DEAD Fl FIFTY ARE INJURED Continued From Front Page One ODe powder plant than Is the main section of the city Every window on one side of Rideau Hall was wail blown out and two great stone chimneys toppled over on the roof of the building The parlia parUa parliament parliament ment buildings were also badly dam damaged damaged damaged aged Rideau Hall is still occupied by Earl Grey and his family The whole vice regal establishment fled to the street They were soon assured that there was no further danger As soon as Earl Grey learned the extent of the disaster he ordered a detach detachment detachment detachment ment of troops sent across the river to help the authorities The building In which the main ex explosion explosion explosion occurred was built of solid stone the walls being two feet thick Fragments of stone weighing up to a half ton t n were shot through the air for fora a quarter of a mile shattering the frame dwellings of workingmen which run to within an eight of a mile of the factory Two Killed at t Table In a home Just north of the works two sisters were killed while sitting at atthe atthe atthe the supper table John Blanchfield was sitting with his wife in the door of his home when a fragment of rock killed him but left her unharmed The head of a boy was cut clean cl n from his body Louis McCann a laborer was crushed by a falling tailing fragment He was started for an Ottawa hospital in an auto automobile automobile automobile mobile but when it was seen that he was lyIng dyIng the car was stopped in front of the Roman Catholic cathedral There standing on the steps a priest administered the last sacrament a few minutes before McCann died The elec electric electric electric lights were disabled and the city of Hull was left In darkness This added to the confusion and the difficulty difficulty culty of locating victims The Ottawa hospitals are crowded with Injured and it is almost almot certain that some lame of these are so badly hurt that the list of fatalities will grow |