Salt Lake Tribune | 1896-02-11 | Page 3 | Aerolite Explosion

people thought it was on an evidence of gods displeasure madrid feb 10 an ex plodded above this city today all the th were shaken and many windows were shattered according to the officials official of the madrid observatory the explosion occurred about twenty miles in ilea from tho the earth the sun aas ns clearly at the th lime tl me of 0 tile the explosion and the tha only thing visible ible in fix rho alio sky was a white cloud bordered with red malch alch was traveling rapidly across the heavens behind it a train at 0 white dust when I 1 the lie explosion occur red tho the populace laco bell believed eved it was an earth quake or a sign of 0 many injuries resulted from the panic which broke out nut omone among the th people and from rom the frantic attempts to escape from rom the factories arid and schools seventeen per sons sona were injured in one tobacco factory by the collapse of 0 a staircase ahrn the victims rush rushed ed upon it to escape front from the building at the palace it was waa first feared eared a bomb hod had be ben n exploded much damara damage was done dona by the force of the concussion concus glon slon