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Show -oo MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION ripple C'reek. Colo. April 29. I Mrs Ida Bacon wife of lames Bacon, representative from Teller coutu; in I the eighteenth general assembly, and j her 6-year-old daughter Josephine. I were instantly killed and the life of I Bacon now hangs in the balance as the result of b mysterious explosion v.hirh wrecked the Bacon bonjft yesterday yes-terday morning, The force of fne ea plosion wns terrific and in ;il! piob-nbihiy piob-nbihiy resulted from dynamite or nitroglycerin The cause of the dis-! dis-! aster remains a myster li wns while a fire was being started in (he kitrhi-n str." prparj-tnry prparj-tnry to the getting of breakfast that the explosion occurred Mrs Rucon and ber little daughter were arranging arrang-ing the breakfast table, while the head ot the family was building the fire Residents of the neighborhood rushed to the scene to find Bacon crawling on his hands and knees through 'he wreckage, while tlu-mother tlu-mother and daughter lay dead In the northeast corner of the kitchen Deep 'cuts were on the dead woman's head and her arm was broken while the lou of the dnld was horribly mutilated mu-tilated The explosion, which without I question, occurred in the stove, was characteristic of nitroglycerin as Its 1 effects were freakish The top of the : Btove was blown through the celling and flooring over th" kitchen and in-I in-I to the ceiling of the room above. A sewing machine in the room was undisturbed un-disturbed and the glass in a framed , picture, hanging within one foot of the shattered stove pipe was not : even cracked Mrs. Bacon was 2G years old, an 1 the daughter of Rv A .B. Meriting of New York She was divorced .several years ago from W J. Davidson, David-son, a letter earlier, who was trans-j trans-j ferred from Brooklyn. NT. Y., to this city and who Is now in Salt Lake. ! The little girl was the daughter of Davidson Salt Lake. April 29. W .Tames Davidson Da-vidson is the manager of the Post- office cafeteria In Salt Lake. He received a telegram yesterday after- i noon felling him of the death of the. little girl, but giving no particulars The news proved a great shoek to 1 him and he is anxiously awaiting news ! concerning the cause of the tragedy |