Show EXPLOSION KILLED SEVENTEEN six hundred cans of powder discharged and every workman Is blown to fragments ogden utah As the result of a premature explosion of powder at devils slide weber canyon seventeen men were instantly killed on wednesday the ac accident 1 occurred at the works of tho the union portland cement company one of them the men was hugh mcguire the only american victim mcguire was fore foreman manof of the powder crew all the members of which were killed the powder crew was at work in a tunnel about fifty feet long three feet high and two and a half feet wide the men were strung along this boro passing powder to mcguire who opened the cans and prepared tho the shot about cans of black powder each containing twenty civo pounds were exploded in the tunnel and cans near the portal the explosion of tile the cans ot of powder was ter terrific two men were near the tunnel opening and the body of one of these wis was blown a distance of feet for the rest a veritable volley of fragments of human bodies was sent out through the tunnel opening |