Deseret Evening News | 1890-09-08 | Page 1 | Fifteen Men Killed

ririeeu aieu Killed. SioiCANt: Faxxs, Wash., Sept. C Just before C o'clock this evening a premature blast killed fifteen men, and possibly mote, on the Northern i'licitlcrtad. It was just before the hour of quitting work. A large force of meu were engaged In blasting blast-ing put a huge rock pile iu the Northern Pacific freight yard. In tho eastern jart of Uie city. From fifty to seventy-live men were working work-ing In the cut at Uie time. Fifteen have been taken out deed. A number were injured, and still others came out alive, .bomeof the workmen were pre'arlug blasts to be touched otr after the other workmen work-men and teams had deiarted for the nljiht. One blast had been prepared. Ill putting In. a second It was exploded, ex-ploded, the jar also touching ctl the Ilrst bla't, Seveiity-Qve tnousand cubic feet of rock ere thown over upon the Imprisoned mass of humanity hu-manity with terrible results. The scenes at the hospital are heartrending.