Show TWO FATAL BLASTS ONE Explosions of Dynamite at r Guard Barracks Pinar DelRio Del DelRio DelRio Rio Cuba CAUSE NOT ASCERTAINED KAY IlAY AY SAVE KAVE KA VB BEEN ACCIDENT 02 O DARK CONSPIRACY Havana May 18 Two almost simul simultaneous simultaneous explosions of dynamite sup supposed supposed posed to consist of pounds com coin completely completely demolished the rural guard barracks in the city of Pinar Del Rio Kio this afternoon Fully persons were killed and nearly as many ninny wounded Most of or the dead are rural guard guards but the entire families of ot several officers of ot the rural guards it is reported were killed also as well as seven of the public works departments as aswell aswell well veIl as residents of the city It Is not known whether the explosion explosIon sion aion was an accident or was due to an act of ot conspirators but the former hy by hypothesis hYpothesis is considered the more probable probable probable able Several relief trains carrying surgeons burgeons officers and men of the ru rural rural rural ral guard rd and government officials started start d this afternoon from Havana to the scene scena of the catastrophe miles milesa a awa away Captain Alfredo Kavena Ravena and Captain Gaspar Caspar Betancourt Of the garrison and their families are reported to be burIed burled In the ruins IB la Outskirts of City The barracks was a massive build building ing lug of Spanish construction and occupied occupied pied an eminence In the outskirts of the city During the late lata Intervention it was the headquarters of ot the Elev Eley Eleventh Eleventh United States cavalry In consequence of ot the excitement over race disturbances the govern government ment ordered l dynamite In the vi vicinity vicinity vicinity In the possession of ot contractors for tor road construction and other public works to be removed to the barracks for tor safe keeping This afternoon the work of removing the dynamite from the barracks for shipment to Havana was as begun by b of ot the public works department assisted by rural guards guard They were loading cases of the dy dynamite dynamite dynamite on wagons when the explosion occurred The rhe central court where the work was as going on was strewn with dead and wounded The work of exhuming the dead and searching for those who still may be alive aliye is goIng on tonight but It is greatly retarded by the destruction of the electric light wires and the fear that hat a quantity of unexploded dyna may remain in the ruins |