Two American Horrors.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7665, 27 June 1896, Page 4

Two American Horrors.

An appalling scene waß witnessed in Cincinnati, caused by an explosion in a fiveatorey building, in which more than 40 people were killed. The cau-'O of the disaster was due to the explosion of an engine fed by gasoline in the cellar. On tho flour above vvere two saloons, which were filled with people at the time. Nearly all these, as well as those on the other floors, met with instant death. Passers-by in the street outside were badly injured, aud several tramcars were thrown from the track. Electric wires through which currents were passing were broken, and falling endangered the lives of the people. A terrible catastrophe occurred during the great fire at Cripple Creek, Colorado. The Palace Hotel, consisting of 300 rooms, and containing many guests, was first attacked with dynamite. No warning was given to the guests in the building, and as the walls tottered in response to the explosion of tremendous charges of dynamite, the air was filled with the shrieks of dying men and women imprisoned in the rooms of tho falling building. The wreckers rushed to offer aid and endeavor to extricate them, bub before they could succeed in their object they were themselves driven back by the flames rolling over the side of the hotel, and the dynamiters fled to save their own lives. The actual number killed of those in the hotel is a matter of conjecture.