Show LOCAL NEWS from FRIDAYS DAILY dally NOV 7 elders in asia the address of elder eider win willes Is now 12 fortieth street rau rangoon oon british burmah that of elders eiders milson filson E R pratt and A H P F mccune is 49 street calcutta Hin doostan immigrants this telegram was received today to day CounciL Bluffs nov 7 1884 president john taylor the company of emigrants leave here at 11 am all AH well tremendous explosion about 10 last night a terrible report as if a broadside of cannon had been simultaneously discharged went booming and rattling through the air over the city and shaking the solid earth with all the force and reverberation of an earthquake it was supposed by many to bp be one or more pieces of artillery shot off at the fort in annunciation nuncia nun clation tion xion of the result of the national election but the sound was so terribly loud and and bore with it such a sensation of upheaval as it if a volcano had burst forth from one of the surrounding moun mountain tain taia peaks that it left most of the citizens in doubt till mo morning ruing as to the origin and true the alarming event it if was finally ascertained that the terrific sound had been caused by the explosion of one hundreds kegs of blasting powder stored in a natural cave used as a magazine some distance e north of the warm war i springs about loo yards up the mountainside mountain side from the office of the utah lime and cement company pascoe varley who have a contract f for or blasting for the company had stored the powder in the cave completely out of sight they sar say and were getting ready for a sai sat heavy blast last on tuesday next mr frank pascoe the senior of thel thet firm believes some one set the powder off with a f fuse use as efforts have been made to injure the company by ill disposed parties in that neighborhood the explosion blew the cave entirely away away but fortunately no one was injured it is said that the blast on tuesday would have been a two hundred keg blast in view of last nights ni s uproar made by kegs and gless giess unless in the regular regi ilar liar explosion the sound would be less terrific ter rifle it is a question whether it is a good thing f for fon or such heavy discharges to be permitted by the civic civie authorities ties the loss to pascoe and varley is about the theory of is borne out by a nackman who was passing that way at the time and claims to have seen a streak of fire running up the hill towards the magazine just previous to the report repart the te D R G railway track which is in the neighborhood and several cars standing there were damaged considerably perhaps well next hear from in city creek canon catlon we ha vent had quite enough of this of thing just yet |