Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1898 — DISASTER TO PACK TRAIN. [ARTICLE]

DISASTER TO PACK TRAIN.

Powder and Capa Explode and Fifteen Men and Sixty Males Are Killed in Mexico. San Francisco, April 30. News bus just reached the city of a terrible explosion of powder that was being carried by pack train to Col. Dan Burns’ Candelaria mine in Mexico. The explosion tock place on the road near San Vicente, state of Sirnilos, on April 4 last. The pack train was unusually large. It consisted of over 110 mules and the attendants numbered some 40 Mexicans. A part of the freight consisted of ammunition, caps and boxes of powder. It is reported that 218 boxes of powder and 20,000 caps exploded with such force that 15 men and CO mules were killed.