Show in the powder mills near frisco I 1 ONE HUNDRED CHINESE MUM I 1 nitro glycerine in a building explodes I 1 WITH W ITH distressing RESULTS A clel chinaman aln blown a half hair mile early this morning it Is claimed only five lives were lost SAS SAN FRANCISCO july 0 at this morning this cily efly was shaken from ell end I 1 to end by a terrible explosion lie ile fore the people recovered four more terrific shocks followed in rapid succession shattering windows all over town ana and some light walla walls cracked all over tile city the people le were panic stricken for the time pepi the fie intensity of the shock can call be appreciated when it Is known that it was felt at sacramento eighty miles distant and windows cracked at napa and ocher other points aloria along the bay twenty miles distant the eap exp explosions onions were near went west beral lier keloy ey where are to located bated tic I 1 work a of the giant I 1 a t powder company five large buildings in all the cause of the casualty la is said to have been the upsetting ofa bottle in the tile office which set fire to the building this was was right next to the nitro glycerine building and a terrific explosion soon tol followed owed A wrecking train waa was promptly ent sent from oakland but the effar efforts t a of the crew were confined to keeping keepin off the great crowds of people op 1 e that press pressed forward to the seene pe for 0 r w within i thin two hundred yards ot of the fire unknown to the poo people le was a magazine containing three hundred liuti al to tons of black powder the tile explosion of which would have canned a terrible fatality themire the fire fortunately didiot did not reach the magazine the work of gathering the remains of the dead and caring for any who might have escaped was pushed forward as rapidly as possible but the scene was one of such confusion that the work proceeded slowly heat from fron tho fir fire was intense te nand and many chinese employees badly burned and ind suffered intensely it was for a long time impossible it 0 ible any idea of the number of li lives e salost ss lost the e company officials decline to give any particulars lars and ai as most of the men employed were chinese chin e their names were unobtainable elwe however er an estimate made late this a afternoon after fter n on chows shows that there were of whom were there is reason to believe this evening that this estimate is far in excess of the actual figures three white hit men e are known to have been killed john bowe wallace dickerson and charles fige their bodies were awfully mangled the tile head engineer was blown a distance from tile works antt anit rendered unconscious one man was blown into ill ahe e bay I 1 mrs painter an invalid living in ill west berkley was so affected by a nervous shock caused by the explosion that she will die tile A boy named Hroch Broc lierd erd was waa blown through the tile roof of a building buil din and fatally injured the body of a 0 chinaman was found on the railroad track a half antle from he works the remains ofa of a chinese boy were found near the scene this evening one of the tile features of the explosion is the tile tremendous amount of damage done in ill tho the way of broken glass in this city oell cers of the giant powder company estimate their loss at and the owners of tile san francisco chemical works which were nearly completely destroyed put theis losa lose at LATER 2 a m tho the latest report from the tile scene of the explosion is that it is to definitely ascertained that five persona persons lot loot their lives three whites and arid two chinese it is believed this will be the extent of the fatalities A number of chinese and sev sey eral whites are more or less injured |