People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1893 — DENVER SHAKEN. [ARTICLE]

DENVER SHAKEN.

Eight Thousand Pounds of Dynamite Explode—Two Lives l.ost. Denver, Col., July 11.—The entire city was shaken at 4:30 a. m Monday by the explosion of 8,000 pounds of dynamite in a storage house in south Denver. People were aroused from their beds by the awful concussion in that section of the city. There was a general destraction of window panes and many doors were blown from their hinges. Two men are supposed to have been blown to pieces. Portions of their clothing and a revolver were found near the scene. What caused the accident is not known, but it is supposed to have been the work of tramps.