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Show i l ititiiii.i: L.vi'Losio.v. An Lu:;ine Kxptotlr ill SlOfk loo, Cnllluruiu. A Great .Many Per.HmiM Ktlled uud Tvteutj'-Slx Uouudt'tl, A 3,500 Eoctnfi It 1 own Over a j Telti;rtU Hire. Caused by n ICvcUleNN Eu yl-ut yl-ut tr. San Francisco, 22 A Stockton dispati-h Bay.-: A terrific explosion took place at 2 30 to-day, at the head ol the Stockton Slouch ou E'dorado street. A crowd of mure than 200 people peo-ple assembled lo witness he tr.al of a new propellor pump, set in the slough and ruu by a tbreahing engine. Thope who stood r.e:r were prostrated. Tbe b.dy of the engine was blown a distance of 150 feet through the crowd The dead lay proelrnle in every direction, some tailing into the sough from the bridge. Ten or twelve dead bodies lay in One hep ut the northwest corner of tbe bridge ; others lay utrtwn dead and dying on tbe btreet, blown from fi'ty to ono hundred' feel. The heads of some were blown I to pieces, and others were blown I to the ground with such force j as to break every bone in ; their bodies. Tne laces, baud and whole persons were smeared with dirt and smoko and cinders. The wounded were promptly cared for aod the dead left undisturbed until tbe excitement had subsided, when they were removed to the coroner's office. The explosion waa the result of recklessness reck-lessness on the part of tbe ecgineer. Tbe steam gauge relusiug to work, the engineer attempted to fix it, and failing, he screwed down the safety valve and went ou with the work. Tbe explosion occurred about fifteen minutes afterwards. after-wards. It killed J. M. Kirkpatrict, John Mielly, James Curry, George W. Foliz, Millard Follsom, William Allen, Al-len, Michael Crowe-H, H. B. Bishop jr., Robert B. Johnson, James Cos grove, Charles Crenor, W. C. Taylor, B. 8. Clowes, Foo Fee, a Chinaman, Thomas Sedgwick, and J, F, Avery, the engineer io charge of the engine. Tbe wounded number twenty-six, three or four of whom aro not likely to recover. Many were blown a considerable distance. Tne body of tbo e-ngiua weighing 2,-500 2,-500 pounds was blown over tbe teld grsph wires and landed on a plaz-i. Muu are stilt engaged in drucging the slough in hopes ot recovering the bodies pupposed to be thrown in it by tho explosion. Tbo flags thrown to breeze in honor ol the memory of Wasuington, were lowered to half mast after the explosion. |