| 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 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 fhe country for miles around was laid waste and many small dwell dwell- ings in the city of Hull on the side nearest the scene of the explosion were flattened to the ground A baseball game was in progress a short distance from the powder works about 6 o'clock Sunday even even- ing lag 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 the blaze It was while the crowd was gathered around the buildings buildings build build- ings watching the blaze that the explosion explosIon explosion ex ex- ex- ex occurred The scene where I the crowd from the ball game stood resembled a battlefield Headless armless and legless bodies were lying about among scores of unconscious forms |
