| Show i DIES IE nor a 4 fw few of of city verily thought the day of judgment had surely come when the four magazines on arsenal lull hill immediately north of t the he 1 c cily city I exploder yesterday I 1 I 1 afternoon april 5 wah wi lh three terrify and distinct reports some persons inv dinv involuntarily executed e d astonishing ge gestures struck tragic or imploring 1 at attitudes ti ludes and aud believed for a few moments that the tho 2 1 5 able day of wrath the actual end of the world the awful crack of doom had burat upon them IM loti its terrible s stupendous u eldous awe awo inspiring overwhelming irresistible realia reality I 1 forchand furce force and grandeur some thought thought the time was come when the valleys W were are gre being exalted and the mountains brought low others not ao so seriously affected who could could think of anything thought the nearest steam boiler boller had exploded or a sudden simultaneous bombardment had been opened on the devoted city or a volcano had bad suddenly bursh burst open in dreadful eruption or a tremendous earth rjake q lake or series of earthquakes were shaking terribly the city the simultaneous smashing off glass es especially in the prin priE elpa eipl cipA street beet heightened dined the or the tha moment never to the end of their mortal lives will the people of this city forget the fearful shock nor many of them their stra strange rift involuntary sensations adt act fohs and attitudes some of the latter being exceedingly fantastic and evea to think of 0 in their e almer calmer ajol ments some soine her ber persons hons sonE ilin in adolia addition T an to the momentary excitement were nervously afree affected ted for a considerable sid gid erable time and they probably spent many wakeful hours last night the women generally will bo be likely to complain of bad backs for a week or two to come while a few may rny suffer more serl seri bously s S these extraordinary sensations impulses and thoughts however were of brief duration forthe for the immense volumes of flame fiame and emoke smoke denoted the origin and real nature odthe of the catastrophe followed within a radius of two or erthree three miles by y a shower of rocks iron timber unexploded powder dust and general debris the saddest features of this tragic event are the ifie loss losa of life lire and the injury to limbs the damage to property is very great hardly a house in id the city escaping scot free if e e and many being wrecked or more or of less badly strained the lessons to be learned from the disaster are mainly in the line of vf more cautious aad prudent treatment of explosives especially the more dangerous and easily ones it is hiow how the general sentiment that the magazines were located much toa too near the city and much too each other the practice which evidently was not uncommon of making the magazines a target fa for pistol or rilie rifle practice cannot b be too severely cenati censured red aman A mancho man who will thus recklessly play with and atuf around the most moat deadly explosives is a fool a mad madman mail mall if not A villain and jand should be taken good care of ofin in a preventive way lastly wel we may say that it 1 Is 14 4 hardly a liti humane mane act much less the act of a public spirited citizen to endeavor at this I 1 s calamitous epoch to lor make a corn er in gass gasa or to run the price of the article up two or three hundred bundred percent cent over the price in ordinary times people will farm and hold their own opinions of individuals individuate who thus nake merchandise of the misfortunes of df their fellow citizens |
