Show ARSENAL EXPLOSION Today the A Anniversary sary BIJ of th tM the Memorable re t tOn t tOIl On OIl April 5 i mi occurred one of the most frightful disasters in ID the U kissers history of Salt LaM City the explosion of the powder pode magazine on Oft Arsenal Arlie hill iF ur r persons persona lost t their lives Charles Richardson Hill Mrs XII Mary MaryVan MaryVan Van VAD Notta ud Muter Master James Jam H II Bad BiLd Badden den 3 1 years of age the latter two persons being by It flying rocks reeks Besides Beside the above several person persons in inthe inthe inthe the Seventeenth Eighteenth Nine Nineteenth and nd Twentieth Twe wards ward were hit by cobbles and more more or less leas injured The ft magazines m contained neatly nearly fifty arty tons tone of tie the time tImeo of ot the ex ax explosion exion axion ion and aad the damage to property through tJi the concussion co n ran up into the theda thousands da the greater ter loss JoIa being in la glass scarcely a house In the city eity within a mile mUe and a half bait of the explosion don sion n escaping a loss in hi this tit respect Walls Walla were cracked and thrown down dawn chimneys were demolished doors were broken and aDa furniture and crockery destroyed de destroyed deed ed The shower of rocky rocks which followed the explosion was wu furious and aDd destructive and many narrow Darrow escapes from death Richardson and Hill had been out hunting bunting and it Is supposed c carelessly fired a shot into one of the magazines ri thus dI ue causing the explosion nv |