Show bad accident at the iron blossom but fortunately N no 0 one was injured 7 A about at pounds of pou powder der which was stored in the powder house near the north north workings of the iron blos som sorn mine exploded at about 2 0 clock last sunday morning but fortuna fortunately teli there v as no loss of life and no serious serious in my to those who were working near dear the place where the explosion occur red the concussion must have been terri flo as windows vv indoe s were ere broken out of bu edings located nearly half a mile av a ay the electric wires at the iron blossom were ere disconnected the side of the frame shaft house was torn out and irien men and horses were thrown to the ground the windows in the sioux shaft house suffered almost as much muchas as those in the hoisting plant at the ir iron on blossom As assayer sayel genther of the sioux and his assistant sterl d ing morse were asleep at the sioux mine mines when fhe he powder exploded their bed was lifted up and thrown over against the stove but they edwith a few bruises andy scott I 1 who was asleep in a cabin some dis efforn the powder house hada had a similar experience while his bed was dall dancing cing around the room a rifle tell fell down dawn from the u wall all and struck him upon the head scott says that for a few minutes he thought tintic gintic was in the earthquake zone the 0 p powder bowder house at the iron blos som inas as located about feet from the hoist and usually contained much more powder than the amount vi which aich exploded last bunday the explosion is thought to have been caged by the over heating of the powder by the electrical thawing api the powder bained before it exploded otherwise the damage would hae haid been much greater herbert birch the top carman discovered that there waa aa a afire fire in the powder house and ran and notified engineer del roundy the eDg engineer ineer nias as just starting to lowel the cage rider into the mine bu buy buriet iet ax t the brakes and the three me pi ved them themselves elves world beaters i n 4 elm g a short distance from the hoist when the explosion took place and while they were thrown to the ground they sustained no injuries A horbe horse which a a within seventy five feet of tho the powder house escaped without a scratch the powder would probably have budded without exploding had it not been for the fact that there were 1000 caps in the powder house the explosion N would no doubt hai hae e been attended by a eany loss of life had it taken place at almost any other hour |