Show CURIOSITY LEADS TO DEATH Fifteen Spectators of Burning Powder Plant Meet Horrible Fate Ottawa Ont An An explosion wrecked wreck wreck- ed the plant of the General Explosives Explosives Explosives company of ot Canada near Hull Quebec on Sunday killed fifteen persons persons persons per per- sons and injured fifty others The force of the explosion was ter ter- The rhe country for miles around was laid waste and many small dwellIngs dwellings dwellings dwell dwell- ings in the city of Hull on the side nearest the scene of at the explosion were flattened to the ground A baseball game was in progress a short distance from the powder works about 6 G o'clock Sunday even even- ing The teams were playing the thelast thelast thelast last inning and when a fire was seen in one of the small buildings of the powder plant the crowd began to swarm up the hill to get a better view of or the blaze It was while the crowd was gathered around the buildIngs buildings build build- Ings watching the blaze that the explosion explosion ex ex- occurred The scene where the he crowd from the ball game stood resembled a battlefield Headless armless and legless bodies were wei lying about among scores of unconscious forms |