Garland Globe | 1908-02-15 | Page 6 | Magazine Exploded

11 MAGAZINE EXPLODED. Great Destruction of Life and Prop- erty, at Canton, China. Hongkong. Very im-ai i!c!.tnic-iun a of life and property was caused at 5 Canton Friday evening by the explo it sion of a gunpowder magazine. Twon S ty-one bodies have already been iv- ' covered from the ruins. Hundreds of persons were Injured. Fifteen buildings were razed to the ground and over 100 were ser-B9 ser-B9 iously wrecked. A section of 200 feet long from the massive city ball was thrown down. The historical nine-, nine-, story pagoda escaped with slight in- , Juries. I1 , The officer in charge of the maga- TTTT; zlne was among those killed, and when 3 his body was recovered a pipe was. 5 found clutched in his hand, which sug- 3 E gests the possible cause of the cxplo- 3 sion. J. :" The financial losses are enormous.