Millard County Chronicle | 1913-08-21 | Page 5 | Explosion in Mexico

EXPLOSION IN MEXICO. Car of Dynamite B'ows Up, More Than One Hundred Being Killed. Mexico City. It Is estimated that ncni'y l(o persons were killed and almost al-most as many Injured early Tuesday morning when a car loaded with dynamite dyna-mite n.n wild down the bl.l fioni the powder works at Santa Fe, Jumped the I track and dished Into a trolley pol" In the suburb of Tucuhaya and exploded. ex-ploded. The earth for ml' s around trembled and great damage was done to property. prop-erty. V.' thin a radius of .100 feet from the scene of the explosion eery house wa (l.'iiinl rhed, while fattier away In the V 'a e and In the adjoining town of San i'edro, many One residences were b-id'y damaged and their Interior fiirn;-liln;; ruined. Numerous Amerl-cans Amerl-cans and o'Imt foreigners reside In Tacul :iya, and f'nn Ped o, but none of them is reported to have been Injured, j