Show FATAL EXPLOSION A azine by lightn ins ing lin mense damage 20 at this ibis morning in the midst of a heavy thunder storm a powder mai MOO was struck by lightning A an I 1 ox ex followed which dos destroyed troyed erty valued at boa besides ides ki I 1 P ono poison PC almost instantly and fatally injuring four and cou con tribu iri buting tins to nearly twenty civo others the ballin lullin if rand comply ti magazine is 13 tho the only ono which exploded where it il stood there in a now nil an immense imi excavation nearly efty feet in depth taio combined combi efforts nut and hard haid hai d four fouret lit battle of a cyclone atiel aad tile tho waborn Wt born 3 of lh tung coald not havo prose atod od a picture of more dioro abject desola desolation tiu nud and do st ruction than did tho the country for half n mile iu directions from the ho exploded m tile tho day daybed had opened gloomily A at 8 r jiin in began falli orr n furiously and from immense banks banka of clouds of lightning were soon eoon cl cli josing asing each other across croaa file ho whole firmament firma meat until til tho the leavens seemed boomed tablizo the T une thunder was dea fonio at about a flabb which abich nil all it adico 0 1 go was war much bri brighter ahter th thin in choie preceding preb cedill g waa foll awod by doport a t b it shook the great or part of cool botill ty it was ft a sharp report but to sa BH I 1 by must of those who lived iu in tho the vicinity of tho the 01 explosion I 1 it was hardly distinguishable from tho the ot of thunder claps clapa which had been tho the of the morning morrill thero there vas a 0 of tho the earth carlli ari ar miclos of furni tuio not stationary thrown about ts rooms na as if they wore ilp alp iu in a gri giants ants power men MCI women bomon and children were nvere to tossed ed around nt at wili fill by the ho terrible torribio torri blo and re matless force released by tho the explosion tile scene of abo is about two miles from tho the extreme koutsi ed cd 0 0 of the city near where archer avondo down into n conventional country highway 0 on one sido eido wave gr great ca 0 f fields af rip aning corn ou on tho the other it a broad stretch of prairie ruu ruis 3 for nearly a wilo iu in till directions od oa this nieto a dozen plain lint but strongly built houses with walls of allow bicks brick roofs of slats slate ind st strong roll iao i on n doors these housos houses wore tho the m in which tho the bulk of tho the p supply for chicago and an the territory torri tory de depou dent upon it was wai stored astorca 1121 right n tin in tile midst of the magazines roso rose tho the homa of 31 J biorn thorney Ti orney ey police jolico magistrate 0 of tile tho town of liko like in tho the limits of which corporation corpor corpora tiou the warehouses stood tho the house was until to daj an attractive trac tivo looking homo two stories bio high 11 with a spacious epa cious veran verandah verandile dill in f root front and surrounded by a number of r substantial dutli illson it over looked tho the archer furty forty feet away throe three hundred feet fee northeast dorthea A of tho the i evidence was alitalo cottage aft e rudely built mid and surround ol oI by ruder sheds stables aud and log hog pens the raud powder wits was ono of the largest of a jozen dozen structures in tile tho nei atit it was a substantial brick by 30 teat feet dimensions with wita alato root roof anil and ono iron dor doir of greal tp eat areu th the magaz ina i waa acot feet ca cast st of tile tho of john G guhl uhl and feet from froia the residence ot of sir mr tierney whon rain bean to lill in tho the 0 morning tho the people ot tho the vicinity were all in dours dora many anally of thom pro longio longing their saturday ni nig 0 lits lils rest an ali occasional occasional agnit passing along tho archer road N was vas ab ut tit tho the only sign fian of lito life outdoors outdo ora just in ing the iho explosion a loo vivid chloc trio alime to bant from a cloud directly over tho tha rand hand magazino in nu an in instant trio air ws was fillol with missile wissi ies 5 of brick nod add clay sheets of tia lia 1 large tro ge stones and alli pieces of timber 0 al 01 1 indescribable gyrations of feet in the air some fall falling irig back close celoso to the points from which they started shot off through space with frightful velocity only conforming b to laws of M gravity after a long flig flight lit stones weighing n 0 from ono ollo to ono hundred and fifty wore veto thrown into holds two miles fron tho the scene trees wore stripped of their folit go fences by the cuilo were laid low telegraph h wires veto snapped liko fraulo fragiao th threads roads aud and t the he prairie borem bore scams as if of a thousand beeam plows not a building within a mile of the explosion ciS dam ac a ago c tho the little cottage of jobu dill guhl with its burrou surrounding adin out h 0 u ses was laid low without warrn io in M and in a moment part of the olm exploded bato bogan began 0 falli f illin tig on the debris of abo cottage guills family consisted of himself hia 1115 bif and carrio carrie 11 14 1 1 years of age ago 45 tho the latter was killed while guhl and his big difo abio dragged from the ruins fai frightfully mutilate oil cd choir horses coy cow and swine beio all killed by the concussion and their bodies blo blown full of dirt sand and li powder tho the ruins ruing of guhli house honeo immediately took fire arid and the fragments bur burgod out during tho the day the body or cantio presented a sick cuin euin spectacle halt half the faco face was torn lorn away the ho byca viory almost blown blow it from rain their sockets aud and there wa ansa a g gaping gal attig holo hole iu in tho forehead large larce enough a to receive roa rea acci ie a mans malls nat fird tho the 43 girls left arm was torn from froin the aboul aboulnor dor tile tho body was removed to tile homo home it hor her undo august Abren werth onn on california tile tho exploded na grazino conta container inel it is estimated pounds of aud and limit half ns much dynamite in I 1 lie ilia neighboring ion stora itoi a houses louses wa wib pounds of dyn arnite ani and inico as witch of powder nt not one of the buildings hal hai ligh lighon tri iu rods or condi conda tors th s directly south of the mill stood blood the iho i litto brains house if f mrs E B iz de 1 vine aged fig 65 tho the iii hirtio ve lad bad crushed crus lied to attoma dud zid a itono of pounds weight 0 lay jay on top or of the nisim in alich vl 11 vas found mrs devine with hor bor ae right cg crushed into a and ft a arso ar 0 o of cf ga i hid 01 hiiter ter ed cd under her collar bone and wa haq forced out n ii hor bor armpits peter farmer whilo drivet driving past pait in ft a raaon wm idoly iu in flout of the caziuc when tho the ox ex explosion occur occurred r ed ile iio was hinten 0 00 anet into a airn field aud and flight fully oae of his horson ana Is killoh I 1 outright 0 lit mid all tho the hazou was wag reduced to bits bita the first shock or of tho ho reacted roii the clixto ii of tilt the hilly family where wai doigg on there were ivere a thou thoua annd rind I 1 at tho he who mide 1 an 11 binl aliina 0 o fur for tile stair staircase cage anti windowed win dowd moo ma M a ajl in licals over fainting winou and aud a gaucius a picric ensued A grot groat inthy women aud and ebil freit seri bously injured 1 at ti tho I 1 0 church of ilia N nativity street and dishel dis liol street another parnic kienic took and aud sor oril par ons ona moro ur ir loii injured th board ol of trado trade building 0 soven builes froni from thos alio icene was greatly gr tally nh aff 0 o c od by the iho dis urtel ur oil condition condi ion of the 0 A platoon pla toof claig dwely 0 feet esquiro WAS 8 sli into frag C tho the lar ei eal 1 pice cioce being it nr larger r than a fifty cent picco acco tilt leatric clen le etric ii light abt talin who was waa in the at tho linio f the explosion stales that mat tho the tower swayed so sl that ho he houget thou glit it w u d over tho lights li 0 ahls in ill thu the Pili ncr house tore extin r nud and 11 the building sh alcon alrow roif to foune atiya A scene it tho the grand hotel in till uni iu buil building diu ebora is located tho the office of the iho several windows wore wora bauke |