Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-03 | Page 3 | Stepped on a Bomb Jack

STEPPED i A MB JACK Explosion Fire-Works in flu k roiiows. Numbar- of Women-..and Cliildan Injured and Suffocated. Twenty-Eight Persons More or leas Hurt in Accident in a Novelty Nov-elty Storo. WORCESTER, Mass., July It By accidentally stepping on a bomb Jack, a largo torpedo, Albert Al-bert Childs, a clerk of the Nelson Novelty store In this city, started a fire tonight which caused the explosion of $700 - worth of fireworks and cut off forty clerks and customer' jjjj , j i who were in the store from the only 1 ij 1 1 ' J J Women and children wero injured jjji itj,, ' and were suffocated by smoko, and fa J j i were rescued from tho cellar where I f ,! ', I thoj' had fled to avoid the flames. I ; ! ; ; I j t I ; Manuel Oglnlan was caught under an J, j j I J elevator as It was descending with i) I' jjl' J I twenty-five women nnd probably fa- '.) j ' tally hurt. f m j ' j Jacob Bekln and O. OvJginlan of New ' f( J H Hayen are dangerously 111 from lnbal- 1 ! if!' ' , ing smoke. Twenty-five women and j I n Ij: ( j J , children received minor injures. Ill ' I F The elevator, which was loaded with . ! j'L - JH "women and children, had reached tho ,U K.p .H first floor when tho explosion occurred. ' ;(i ';'!" I 'VM Some ono ln the elevator pulled the ij I j cord and sent tho car into tho cellar C, ! j , H with its load of human freight- Tho j ij'i t ii cellar was fast filling with smoke and i ' i ' if here the firemen found tho balf-suffo- J V ! if cated people. It was with difficulty ifj I'ft ' 1 , that they wore finally resqued. Tho j f flA jH financial Joas was small. M! f j