| Show That Alleged Powder Explosion Ex-plosion Editors Herald In a recent issue of your paper the following item appeared If Ttrrible Explosion Mr F E Browne with John Cun ninglon Co of the Elephant store ha received information from Pinola Point Alameda County Elating that a terrible powder explosion occurred thore on the 22nd instant The Arsenal of the Vulcan Powder Company at that place exploded with terrific force and killed five person while one was badly injured in-jured Having every roast < n to suppose that the above was a fabrication we wrote for information on the subject and received the following reply ff F Culmer agent Vulcan Powder Pow-der Company Salt Lake City Dear SirThe account of the Terri b1e Explosion as it appeared in the SALT LAKE HERALD of December 29 1S82 is entirely incorrect We append a correct account of same as it appeared in the Daily Exchange 8 F D ember em-ber 23 1882 HOI AN EXPLOSION A fire occure i yesterday morning in a email mixing house at the Black Powder works at Siege Station One whiteman and a Chinaman were dangerously burned and another Chinaman badly burned The works were not injured BB there was no explosion The total loss will notexccol 300 You will note the difference in the two accounts Kespectfolly H SHAINWALD Secy San FrsnciECo CalVe Cal-Ve believe you will give this refutation re-futation the same publicity which the first article obtained as we feel you prefer to disseminate truths instead of falsehoods There is a delightful feeling existing here between be-tween rival pcwder companies and compliments pass freely between them but we doubt whether anyone any-one will secure much permanent perman-ent advantage by misleading the public concerning the littie fire at btege Yours truly G F Cur IEr fv BROS |
