Show fleen 0 s P 1 jt I W I 1 11 t I 1 I 1 1 tate blemel it of fire I 1 1118 dolle I 1 I 1 i 0 t IR aj I 1 I 1 I 1 10 A car of pounds of powder explodes I 1 I 1 IN THE I 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 gitil the of thunder and labing i vily waste 0 O 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 TILE AND WOUNDED I 1 the dt 0 ifie city in gon ll A its I 1 I 1 lyer aad aress U to tais DARa I 1 A ballway results in tie death of bany peopled I 1 colo af yeii A horri ble railway casualty red it c re at this morning at the north bound thunderbolt stopped at the station for orders we had hardly come lot standstill when the four loaded freight cari which had broken rimy from the through freight at colorado thirteen miles away came along the grade at lightn trig speed crashing into the express and piling the ca boose and first car in ruins on the tat of the engine and baggage car the car next to the caboose was A buge tank of being wrecked scattered ail over the depot the cars and ther adjoining adjoin bull di n s e aught fire and in an instant evereth ever ing was in a sheet tha engineer engi neet arld fireman escaped un injured A pullman and two day coache r were hastily de tallied if yom the 11 ba car I 1 and ran dov n the track toa ingre lance from tile fire which had now enveloped the depot and was rapidly t approaching the last car of ilia run abray freight alien the alarm was given that tills car was loaded with powder and for every one to run for their lives all who heard ing attempted to obey but had gone but a abort distance when bunds of ilant powder with which car was loaded exploded shaking ill earth as if it were an earthquake twenty houses iq the city were al most totally destroyed des troied together with the the new baat st church whick cb was blown from the foundation and acres of ground men and women were knocked senseless and pieces of broten brot en rails carvi beels and timbers acre carried with ter rifle force for half a mile A number of frei glit carp standing on the side track were blown to atoms id the passengers in ilia thunder bolt were severely shaken up and a number cut by pieces of glas s from tile windows but none were seriously injured the yard of alte newton lumi ber k fire and was com plate e y es troyed people standing if a tulle from the explosion were hit by flying fragments and baill wounded the dead are 0 1 smitha mia nager of the newton lum ber company lie was trying to ex the flames at the depot a it er i ilia and was badly mounded he died in an hour a ca of iron was blawie through ills myking a hole diameter tito burned remains 0 OI unknown man udder 1 neath ilia engine after afie ex I 1 I 1 lawrence a german carpenter while assisting to put out the fire in the lumber yard was struck on ilia head with A flying timber badsing cad sing concussion of the brain lid died in a w short time mr und Mrs ledridge We dridge white hundred yards from the track was struck on ilia head by a flying bolt and died in two hours 11 hatching merchant years standing in a door somei distance Oi stance ilav was struck by a bar of iron and d iz t his afternoon the wounded bumbar about thirty nine of them will die all are painfully 4 loss to the town which Is I 1 i estimated at y h sandi dollars whilo to the ral road company is variously estimated to all the wounded tire residents of this place ly Kni gitt of st louis and J caluen CA lumn okho had faces badly cut I 1 11 11 fire ran LA bRUA ibay I 1 building which th esteel 0 O rosand of Diss tons works at destroyed by firmat an eat y I hour tabi mor lesii ZOO 1 tID about 1 ain will be mora or leb affected OLL CITY PA alay iron lank bartels of oil to miles up oi I 1 aa vas strack by 11 saturday at 11 tills morning the danl boiled over gre to tank OR ai coppom to side of tha creek containing barrels aho keystone neV as hort Al stance from there bin souto danger whig danis are being buelk in tap creek to protect the property along the creek oil and lanka aret owned bv J IL mont I 1 cay va may 14 th oil airik Is now believed to be under control the great overflow watched for wit or occurred shortly b fore 2 this morning the tank vomited its flames and contents and huva eslanda of burning oil some of them a li undred feet in diameter I 1 floated doati the creeks I 1 1100 akk brov bd useless and the it ter thaila bt fire swept on bilt ning several dwellings lie stern new yorka avat iia railroad ind a arga barrel I 1 actor thal es timateA at aa herawi little sleep in the f ity last night as T it I 1 was leared the t own be desire redi avic the tire has burned itself out and all danger 14 passed the first reports were greatly exaggerated and them loss will 11 at exceed oregon 14 tho entire business portion af W burned yesterday no fire tie artmont art ment losses aggregate IL ns urance I 1 r 11 II 1 11 I 1 I 1 1 k 5 1 T I 1 I 1 1 0 |