Show fiVE IY MEN PRIS IN I TERRifiC OAKLAND Ca Cal Feb 18 An An explosion explosion sion ion In the plant of the Trojan Powder Yorks works at San Lorenzo yesterday cost the lives of five men and a a. property loss of Four Pour other were seriously seri seri- seriously If not fatally injured and a dozen more anore including Martina were were burned and bruised and narrowly escaped with their lives That R-That That half a hundred men were not blown to atoms is one of the mysteries of chance In Ina a a. magazine located in the center of the twenty five buildings which made up the plant was stored rounds of powder ready for shipment ent f Fire Ire followed the e explosion and ten tan of the tue structures were burned to the ground surrounding the magazine with witha a wall of flame through which firemen dared not venture i With V the rs exception of Reuben Tharp h th the chemist chemist-at me tile works r all of the dead were workmen c The first warning of ot the disaster was the outbreak of a fire in the mixing room The blaze had hardly been noticed when the explosion followed its force wrecking g neighboring ei b I buildings ul and n l hurlIng hurling hurl hurl- t ing one go o of the mixers r hundreds d of feet through the air Nearly half a hundred men and women were in and near the plant and they were thrown to the ground by the violence e of the blast Fire followed 8 de leaping hp n oi from g building I I to building building build build- ing ins and the Injured pinned down under the debris of collapsed buildings were threatened with incineration The roar of the explosion drew hundreds hun hun- reds of persons to the snot and by heroic heroic he he- rob exertions daring death at every step the dead and maimed were dragged from the ruins Only when it became known that the magazine was by the flames dames fo foa a and another a and am m more ter terrific ter- ter t rifle explosion f possible at any y moment did their efforts relax b It is possible that other bodies may maybe maybe be found in the ruins |