Show N KILLED AND fillY fifTY I IN IN BOILER EXPLOSION AT HULL CANAJA CANA J I 4 WA W Ont Mn May 9 n An An explosion ex w wrecked the plant o of the General kM company of Canada near Hull r killed fifteen persons and Injured area of the explosion was terrible trY for or miles around was t laid ind ml many small dwellings In ulion on on the nearest the tho scene were flattened to the tho balt nc was In progress s a short from the powder works about C G fin 1 tn 1 the evening The teams team were tho the last ast Inning and when a fire rc hin h In one of oC the small buildings dt plant the crowd began to the hill to get Ket a better view of oC n n. n of or the danger carne came to the thern rn 1 Sn In two minor explosions soon soone tie e fire got well under wa way A Af At f t sparks parka and fragments of or tho the building fell teU among the there thero was a scurrying out of considered the tho danger zone jen en n In the crowd aware of or the thees es of the danger when whon tho the main maine he e was reached pleaded with the tho go still sUIl further back and man many I thai thEl warning Others apparently r the tho element clement of ot danger In the tho B stood within 1000 yards of ot tb s sr buildings r They wore kept on onI I by detonations that sent of ot burning brands In all r game broko broke up tip and the Athe J. J the spectators spectator and the tho players up to join the crowd at the fire re g zine Lets Gos Go s 's s then that the magazine cx- cx There were two stunning stunning- de doton- doton ton ton- JaRvery thing within a radius of ot a aid id da a half halt was torn and shattered trees TeeS rees were snapped oft off close to rth barns and dwelling houses Into kindling wood an and oven even In Ottawa four tour miles from the scene hundreds of ot plate plato glass windows were brol broken en The scone scene where the crowd from Crom tho the ball Juno stood resembled a battle field Heu Headless J s armless and Ic legless less bodies were lying about among scores of ot unconscious forms The Tho silence that followed tho the final death-dealing death blast was more terrifying than tho the cries and moans which came with a return to consciousness of or tho the In In- In The terrific shock brought thousands 01 of oC terror-stricken terror people Into tho the streets of oC the thc town Some Sorno thought It was an nn earthquake earthquake earth earth- quake while others cried out that the comet had struck the earth Hundreds of or chimneys were toppled over or and thenIs there then Is scarcely a whole window left In the northeastern section of ot the city Damage in City The first call can for tor aid from rom tho the hospitals and the tho police pollee came cam from the tho s section of the tho city nearest the magazines There Thero It was C round found und that fully tully forty toru small small framo fraino fraine dwellings had been d and that man nany Injured people were Imprisoned Inthe Inthe In Inthe the wreckage It was fully an nn pour hour and nd a n half halt after oCter the explosion that word came Into Inlo th the tho city of the disaster Ambulances and automobiles automobiles automobiles au au- au- au were rushed to the scene cene and the tho seriously Injured vero can carried led to the Hull ho hospitals until there was room for Cor nomore nomore no nomore more moren anti and n then thc they were brought brough t to Ottawa Ottawa Ot Ot- Ot- Ot tawa In this city db four tour miles from the scene of the explosion the tho terror inspired was scarcely less less' than that at Hull The earth trembled buildings shook and hundreds hundreds hun hun- of or windows were shattered The great t cloud aloud of ot smoke that mounted In a column over Hull quickly Quick Indicated the tho true cause of or the terrifying shock RIdeau Hall tho the o official home of or Earl Grey and tho the buildings on Parliamentary hill bill caught the full tull force of ot the explosion sinn alan being two miles nearer tho the powder powder powder pow pow- der plant than Is the tho main section of ot the city E cI Every window on one side o of Rideau Hall was blown out and two great t stone chimneys s 's toppled over on the roof root of or the tho building Tho The parliament buildings wire rc also bad badly I daml damaged ed Rideau Hall is still sun occupied b by Earl Farl Grey and his family The whole vice Ico re regal regal regal re- re gal establishment fled panic stricken to tho the street The They were soon assured that thero was no further danger As soon as Earl Grey learned the tho of ot the disaster he ordered a detachment of or troops sent sent- across tho the river to help the authorities The building In which the tho main explosion explosion explosion sion occurred was built of solid soUd stone stono the walls being two feet teet thick Fragments Fr of ot stone weighing up tip to a half ton were shot through the tho air for a 1 quarter of a amile amile mile shattering the frame d dwellings of oC workingmen which run to within an Killed at Supper el eighth of ot a mile mUo o of the factory In a home Just north of or the works two sisters were killed while sitting silting at the supper table John ld was sitting sitting sitting sit sit- ting with his wife in the door of pf his home when a fragment of oC rock killed him but left her unharmed The head of oC a a. aboy aboy bl boy was cut clean from his bod body Louis McCann a laborer was crushed by a falling fragment He lie was started for Cor an Ottawa hospital In an automobile but when It was seen that he was dIng dying dying dy d- dy- dy ing the car was stopped slopped in front of ot the theRoman theRoman theRoman Roman Catholic cathedral There standIng standIng standing stand- stand Ing on the steps a priest administered thelast tho the last tast sacrament a few minutes before beCore McCann McCann McCann Mc Mc- Cann died The electric lI lights were disabled disabled dis dis- dis and nd the city of or Hull Bull was wis left In darkness This added to the tho confusion contusion and the difficulty of or locating vIctims victim The Thc Ottawa hospitals are crowded with Injured and It Is almost certain that some someo o of these those are so 80 severely hurt that the tho list of fatalities ties will t grow |