Show EIGHT KILLED ONE BADLY HURT Explosion of Gas in Basement of Building WRECKAGE SOON ABLAZE NATCHEZ MISS MESS UNDER MAR MARTIAL rt MAR MARTIAL R LAW LAWIN IN CONSEQUENCE C Natchez Miss March 14 Eight persons are dead another Is badly Injured anil property valued at many man thousands of at dollars Is ax a mass of wreckage tonight as a athe I the tho result of an explosion of ot gas late to today today day In the basement of oC the building occupied by b the tho Natch Natchez z Drug company compa and located at the corner c of oC Main and nd North Union streets near the business portion of the city Dead Cleve Clew aged ag d 23 25 2 years single Mrs Mis Ketteringham Miss Mi Luella Both Lizzie Worthy V Carrie Murray Murrar i Inez I t Ada AlIa White Elms Elias Hotchkiss a carpenter who ran from the tha building and fell breaking his hi hineck neck 4 I Injured John 70 years of ot age ate arle both legs broken not expected to live Wreckage Caught Fire The explosion tore away wall of oC the building which whick in falling failing crushed an adjoining tenement building Imme Immediately Immediately Immediately following the explosion the wreck wreckage wreckage wreckage age caught fire ire a stiff wind which was blowing carrying huge sparks to the north and west setting fire tire to eighteen resi residences resIdences residences dences seven of which were destroyed All business has been suspended and the city has been placed under martial martla law with local companies com pan Ie of militia on duty Tomorrow the work of recovering the bodies of the victims burled buried under great plies piles of oC brick and Iron debris will be begin begin begin gin Owing to the Intense heat this is impossible tonight |