July 21, 1950 (8 pages)

a) 5 re DARN THIS STUBBORN YOU MULE? SHE ALWAYS DOES THE OPPOSITE OF ) USE WHAT I WANT/. T READ A BOOK ON THE SUBJECT ONCE. WHAT YOU SHOULD DO IS MAKE HER THINK YOU WANT HER TO DO THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU REALLY WANT! . HOW'D IT WORK, SWELL, MAW. THAT BOOK? WHAT WAS THE NAME OF IT? ITS CALLED “HOW TO WAS SURE A GOOD HANDLE A HUSBAND! -.« death will come some day. When you prepare your will and life insurance, you should investigate prearranged funeral plans. tails now and leave confidential instructions with us. You can plan the deHOLMES FUNERAL HOME J. PAUL BERGEMANN, Owner 246 Sacramento St. Telephone 203 24-HOUR AMBULANCE SERVICE VACATION BIBLE CAMP OPENS AT MT. HERMAN Twelve members of the Baptist church will start a week of vacation at the Bible camp at Mt. Herman near Santa Cruz Sunday. , Swimming, horseback riding,! will attend the camp. boating, surfboard riding, tennis and other various sports will be enjoyed along with trips into the Santa Cruz beach area and ‘city. A half-hour of each day will be devoted to Bible study. Rev. John A. MacDonald, pas. Reward mine near the south city limits. The cause of the blast has tor of the local Baptist church,. never been determined, although ‘some thought deteriorated nitro‘. had a powder magazine 425 feet away from the Turner magazine € K? fa fe & ‘ 1850-19 Ly! presented by San Diego City and County Centennial Commission in conjunction with California State Centennials Commission AUG. Ist to SEPT. 9th inclusive Nevada City Co-sponsored by California Newspaper Publishers Association Congress Statehood and Gold Rush Exhibit ae CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 2 years in preporation — in world-famous BALBOA PARK ¥& “Centennial Exposition of Journalism” ¥ Library of ¥ 100 year California Art Exhibit % Historic Pageant in Presidio Park, Sept. 2 to 9, Evenings — Authentic Parade 'COME:TO SAN DIEGO .WHERE CALIFORNIA BEGAN.SEE THE / MOST EXCITING AND BEAUTIFUL EXHIBIT OF THE CENTURY 2 Fine Cars in Value First of th FOUR-WAY FOREFRONT This rugged front end (1) sets the style note, (2) saves on repair costs—vertical bars are individually replaceable, (3) avoids “locking horns," (4) makes parking and garaging easier. ” ‘This one Or course you recognize it. Who doesn’t know that those four Ventiports, that graceful sweep of fender-chrome, mark ROADMASTER — best of all the Buicks, unquestioned “‘big buy” of the fine-car field P But have you tried it? Elave you matched this sweetstepping bonny against the tall hills, and the call of the straightaway P ‘ Ever tooled it across town—and “seen how Dynaflow’s quick surge and smooth take-off slip you through traffic with minimum of -—_ 120 N. AUBURN STREET WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT BUICK Witt BUILD THEM SCOPES 7 roar Timetable foot-motion and maximum of timesaving P him by eager buyers--to put you behind a ROADMASTER wheel. Ever known the good feel of a light and easy wheel, swinging almost at a finger’s touch—the soul-satisfying lift in a big 152-hp Why not see him now—to find out what’s finest in today’s fine cars, and how little it takes to buy one P Fireball engine just waiting for the release your toe-pressure gives it? Only BUICK has iver sampled that famous Buick Fm) id ride — steady, level, unperturbed, gp OES wed Peteszten soft with the special gentleness of and with it goes: coil springs on all four wheels, HIGHER-COMPRESSION Fireball valve. sweetly restful in both front and apres eae ey engine in SUPE, cada cae. PATTERN STYLING, with MULTI-GUARD forefront, taper-through fenders, “double bubble” taillights WIDE-ANGLE VISIBILITY, close-up road view both forward and bac' « TRAFFIC-HANDY : SIZE, less over-all length for easier Parking and garaging, short turning 4 oe a Buick dealer near Foetal ewer SEATS cradled you. He delights in showing off RIDE, from Bae A Pedro outer ROADMASTER. He’ll arrange — Pringing, Safetyunless all his demonstration cars hree engines. (New R models.) * NEWThere’s no reason, really, to wait longer for such satisfying experience. ing torque-tube WIDE ARRAY OF MODELS with Body by Fisher. Ride rims, low-pressure tires, ride-stead yhave been snatched away from ®Standard on ROADMASIER, on SUPER and SPECIE at extra cost — Ss LY, PAUL VILES ~ P.O. BOX 911 GRASS VALLEY The Nevada City Nugget, Friday, July 21, 1950 — 3 ° BIGGEST EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE IN NEVADA CITY’S HISTORY BROKE EVERY PLATE WINDOW IN TOWN Wednesday was the fiftieth anniversary of the greatest explosion in the history of Nevada county, and also the 94th anniversary of the worst conflagration in the county’s history. On the night of July 19, 1900, at 10:35 o’clock, the city was rocked by two terrific explosions of ‘six tons of powder, and every plate glass window in town was shattered. oS : According to the Nevada Daily Transcript people of Nevada City rushed from their homes thinking the day of judgment had arrived. The dynamite catastrophe was preceded -by a light exPlosion, followed by a dull and heavy rumbling, and a streak: of fire as if from lightning ‘flashed over the town. Then all hell seemed to break loose as the second and heavy explosion occurred” and aroused the entire town. The explosion was believed to have been caused by a fiend . after J. E. Carr picked up a burned fuse four feet long at the scene of the explosion—George E. Turner’s powder magazine, near the % ' glycerine was the energating force. Legg & Shaw Co., the predecessor of the Alpha Hardware Co., that. contained 10 tons of powder. . Although the building was damaged by falling debris, powder was spilled from cases: onto the tloor, and a revived fire’ the following afternoon threatened the magazine the Legg & Shaw building was secured from explosion. The explosion was reported heard and the shock felt in Grass Valley, North Bloomfield, Auburn and Sacramento, but first rumors of damage in the quartz city were unfounded. The Transcript reported many women fainted and went into hysterics. The explosion tore a crater in the ground 25 to.30 feet deep, 40 feet long and 38 féet wide, plowed up ground. for 100 feet around and uprooted trees of two to three feet in diameter. The officials believe the grove of trees in which Turner’s magazine was located, was the only thing that saved the city from destruction. The magazine had walls fight inches thick. The crater still remains and can be seen on the left hand side of Reward street. : Glass and particularly plate window was theprincipal item in Nevada City’ damaged by the blast. Legg & Shaw astutely placed an advertisement immediately in the Transcript reading “Orders taken for plate glass and larger sizes of sheet glass.” Several chimneys in the town were victims of the explosion. Plate glass windows shattered included the following: Washington schoolhouse, W. G. Richards residence on Broad, B. F. Snell residence, Tom Canfield residence, N. P. Brown residence, George E. Turner hardware store, Grimes Clothing Emporium and two vacant stores adjoining, F. J. Luetje building, A. Hartung: residence, David Muir ,residence, Mrs. Hocking’s variety store, Miss Eleanor Hoeft’s millinery shop, Golden & Co., Maher & Co. Dry Goods, National hotel, Stover building, Union hotel, Legg & Shaw Co., Hibernia hall, Ott’s assay office, South Yuba Water company, James Kinkead’s furniture store, American Tea Co., Moore’s photograph gallery, H. Dickerman’s drug store, -W. Williams residence and the Transcript. : Property damage included: stage of Nevada theatre pushed from walls and chimney fell through the storeroom of A. O. Allan, destruction of O’Donnell memorial window in St. Canice Catholic church, side of Reward mill blown and rafters and windows broken, soda works of Daniels & Powell, cyanide plant of Providence mine wrecked, Merrifield hoist moved two feet up the bank and men eating lunches atop the building were bowled around like tenpins, a hail of huge rocks broke in the sides ofthe Champion hoist building, doors of A. D. Allan residence blown off, rock weighIng three pounds blasted through front door of Poole’s residence in Gold Flat three miles from the scene of the explosion, house of two Spanish women living nearmagazine wrecked. but they were later found uninjured, office of Pioneer Reduction Works wrecked, Nevada City Ice company barn damaged, drugs at Dickerman’s store spilled on the floor, front of Perryman house on Piety hill was knocked off. Other accidents included: Chris Hansen knocked down while harnessing Fred Miller horse at James Hennessey’s livery stable and horse ran away, Gladys: the daughter of William Clemo struck by curtain pole knocked down by concussion, D. E. Morgan fell and broke his arm while trying to locate the whereabouts of the explosion. At the next meeting of the city trustees a discussion on a better. dispersal of powder magazines was carried on by the city fathers and the hardware dealers. George C. Gaylord’ & Son, and Legg & Shaw’ agreed to reduce their stores and disperse them. Turner wrily remarked his. powder storage problems ‘had been solved. The board of: supervisors passed an ordinance prohibiting the storage of more than five tons of powder in a given place, over the protests of persons familiar with the handling of powder. The ordinance made it necessary for the Nevada County Narrow Gauge railway to have three unloading docks for carload shipping. The ordinance was not repealed until after the first world war. © The Alpha Hardware Co. has two magazines, according to Downey Clinch, and both of them comply with all regulations of the state, and all recommendations of the powder manufacturers. Compliance with the regulations is considered sufficient insurance of prevention of a recurrence of the explosion of fifty years, ago. A story of the catastrophic fire of July 9, 1856, was published in the March 10, 1950, issue of The Nugget. We have a few copies remaining of the 16-page Historical Edition Still Selling at

a) 5 re DARN THIS STUBBORN YOU MULE? SHE ALWAYS DOES THE OPPOSITE OF ) USE WHAT I WANT/. T READ A BOOK ON THE SUBJECT ONCE.. WHAT YOU SHOULD DO IS MAKE HER THINK YOU WANT HER TO DO THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU REALLY WANT! . HOW'D IT WORK, SWELL, MAW.. THAT BOOK? WHAT WAS THE NAME OF IT? ITS CALLED “HOW TO WAS SURE A GOOD HANDLE A HUSBAND! -.« death will come some day. When you prepare your will and life insurance, you should investigate prearranged funeral plans. tails now and leave confidential instructions with us. You can plan the deHOLMES FUNERAL HOME J. PAUL BERGEMANN, Owner 246 Sacramento St. Telephone 203 24-HOUR AMBULANCE SERVICE VACATION BIBLE CAMP OPENS AT MT. HERMAN Twelve members of the Baptist church will start a week of vacation at the Bible camp at Mt. Herman near Santa Cruz Sunday. , Swimming, horseback riding,! will attend the camp. boating, surfboard riding, tennis and other various sports will be enjoyed along with trips into the Santa Cruz beach area and ‘city. A half-hour of each day will be devoted to Bible study. Rev. John A. MacDonald, pas. Reward mine near the south city limits. The cause of the blast has tor of the local Baptist church,. never been determined, although ‘some thought deteriorated nitro‘. had a powder magazine 425 feet away from the Turner magazine € K? fa fe & ‘ 1850-19 Ly! presented by San Diego City and County Centennial Commission in conjunction with California State Centennials Commission AUG. Ist to SEPT. 9th inclusive Nevada City Co-sponsored by California Newspaper Publishers Association Congress Statehood and Gold Rush Exhibit ae CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 2 years in preporation — in world-famous BALBOA PARK ¥& “Centennial Exposition of Journalism” ¥ Library of ¥ 100 year California Art Exhibit % Historic Pageant in Presidio Park, Sept. 2 to 9, Evenings — Authentic Parade 'COME:TO SAN DIEGO ..WHERE CALIFORNIA BEGAN..SEE THE / MOST EXCITING AND BEAUTIFUL EXHIBIT OF THE CENTURY 2 Fine Cars in Value First of th FOUR-WAY FOREFRONT This rugged front end (1) sets the style note, (2) saves on repair costs—vertical bars are individually replaceable, (3) avoids “locking horns," (4) makes parking and garaging easier. ” ‘This one Or course you recognize it. Who doesn’t know that those four Ventiports, that graceful sweep of fender-chrome, mark ROADMASTER — best of all the Buicks, unquestioned “‘big buy” of the fine-car field P But have you tried it? Elave you matched this sweetstepping bonny against the tall hills, and the call of the straightaway P ‘ Ever tooled it across town—and “seen how Dynaflow’s quick surge and smooth take-off slip you through traffic with minimum of -—_ 120 N. AUBURN STREET WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT BUICK Witt BUILD THEM SCOPES 7 roar Timetable foot-motion and maximum of timesaving P him by eager buyers--to put you behind a ROADMASTER wheel. Ever known the good feel of a light and easy wheel, swinging almost at a finger’s touch—the soul-satisfying lift in a big 152-hp Why not see him now—to find out what’s finest in today’s fine cars, and how little it takes to buy one P Fireball engine just waiting for the release your toe-pressure gives it? Only BUICK has iver sampled that famous Buick Fm) id ride — steady, level, unperturbed, gp OES wed Peteszten soft with the special gentleness of and with it goes: coil springs on all four wheels, HIGHER-COMPRESSION Fireball valve. sweetly restful in both front and apres eae ey engine in SUPE, cada cae.

PATTERN STYLING, with MULTI-GUARD forefront, taper-through fenders, “double bubble” taillights WIDE-ANGLE VISIBILITY, close-up road view both forward and bac' « TRAFFIC-HANDY : SIZE, less over-all length for easier Parking and garaging, short turning 4 oe a Buick dealer near Foetal ewer SEATS cradled you. He delights in showing off RIDE, from Bae A Pedro outer ROADMASTER. He’ll arrange — Pringing, Safetyunless all his demonstration cars hree engines. (New R models.) * NEWThere’s no reason, really, to wait longer for such satisfying experience. ing torque-tube WIDE ARRAY OF MODELS with Body by Fisher. Ride rims, low-pressure tires, ride-stead yhave been snatched away from ®Standard on ROADMASIER, on SUPER and SPECIE at extra cost — Ss LY, PAUL VILES ~ P.O. BOX 911 GRASS VALLEY The Nevada City Nugget, Friday, July 21, 1950 — 3 ° BIGGEST EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE IN NEVADA CITY’S HISTORY BROKE EVERY PLATE WINDOW IN TOWN Wednesday was the fiftieth anniversary of the greatest explosion in the history of Nevada county, and also the 94th anniversary of the worst conflagration in the county’s history. On the night of July 19, 1900, at 10:35 o’clock, the city was rocked by two terrific explosions of ‘six tons of powder, and every plate glass window in town was shattered. oS : According to the Nevada Daily Transcript people of Nevada City rushed from their homes thinking the day of judgment had arrived. The dynamite catastrophe was preceded -by a light exPlosion, followed by a dull and heavy rumbling, and a streak: of fire as if from lightning ‘flashed over the town. Then all hell seemed to break loose as the second and heavy explosion occurred” and aroused the entire town. The explosion was believed to have been caused by a fiend . after J. E. Carr picked up a burned fuse four feet long at the scene of the explosion—George E. Turner’s powder magazine, near the % ' glycerine was the energating force. Legg & Shaw Co., the predecessor of the Alpha Hardware Co., that. contained 10 tons of powder. . Although the building was damaged by falling debris, powder was spilled from cases: onto the tloor, and a revived fire’ the following afternoon threatened the magazine the Legg & Shaw building was secured from explosion. The explosion was reported heard and the shock felt in Grass Valley, North Bloomfield, Auburn and Sacramento, but first rumors of damage in the quartz city were unfounded. The Transcript reported many women fainted and went into hysterics. The explosion tore a crater in the ground 25 to.30 feet deep, 40 feet long and 38 féet wide, plowed up ground. for 100 feet around and uprooted trees of two to three feet in diameter. The officials believe the grove of trees in which Turner’s magazine was located, was the only thing that saved the city from destruction. The magazine had walls fight inches thick. The crater still remains and can be seen on the left hand side of Reward street. : Glass and particularly plate window was theprincipal item in Nevada City’ damaged by the blast. Legg & Shaw astutely placed an advertisement immediately in the Transcript reading “Orders taken for plate glass and larger sizes of sheet glass.” Several chimneys in the town were victims of the explosion. Plate glass windows shattered included the following: Washington schoolhouse, W. G. Richards residence on Broad, B. F. Snell residence, Tom Canfield residence, N. P. Brown residence, George E. Turner hardware store, Grimes Clothing Emporium and two vacant stores adjoining, F. J. Luetje building, A. Hartung: residence, David Muir ,residence, Mrs. Hocking’s variety store, Miss Eleanor Hoeft’s millinery shop, Golden & Co., Maher & Co. Dry Goods, National hotel, Stover building, Union hotel, Legg & Shaw Co., Hibernia hall, Ott’s assay office, South Yuba Water company, James Kinkead’s furniture store, American Tea Co., Moore’s photograph gallery, H. Dickerman’s drug store, -W. Williams residence and the Transcript. : Property damage included: stage of Nevada theatre pushed from walls and chimney fell through the storeroom of A. O. Allan, destruction of O’Donnell memorial window in St. Canice Catholic church, side of Reward mill blown and rafters and windows broken, soda works of Daniels & Powell, cyanide plant of Providence mine wrecked, Merrifield hoist moved two feet up the bank and men eating lunches atop the building were bowled around like tenpins, a hail of huge rocks broke in the sides ofthe Champion hoist building, doors of A. D. Allan residence blown off, rock weighIng three pounds blasted through front door of Poole’s residence in Gold Flat three miles from the scene of the explosion, house of two Spanish women living nearmagazine wrecked. but they were later found uninjured, office of Pioneer Reduction Works wrecked, Nevada City Ice company barn damaged, drugs at Dickerman’s store spilled on the floor, front of Perryman house on Piety hill was knocked off. Other accidents included: Chris Hansen knocked down while harnessing Fred Miller horse at James Hennessey’s livery stable and horse ran away, Gladys: the daughter of William Clemo struck by curtain pole knocked down by concussion, D. E. Morgan fell and broke his arm while trying to locate the whereabouts of the explosion. At the next meeting of the city trustees a discussion on a better. dispersal of powder magazines was carried on by the city fathers and the hardware dealers. George C. Gaylord’ & Son, and Legg & Shaw’ agreed to reduce their stores and disperse them. Turner wrily remarked his. powder storage problems ‘had been solved. The board of: supervisors passed an ordinance prohibiting the storage of more than five tons of powder in a given place, over the protests of persons familiar with the handling of powder. The ordinance made it necessary for the Nevada County Narrow Gauge railway to have three unloading docks for carload shipping. The ordinance was not repealed until after the first world war. © The Alpha Hardware Co. has two magazines, according to Downey Clinch, and both of them comply with all regulations of the state, and all recommendations of the powder manufacturers. Compliance with the regulations is considered sufficient insurance of prevention of a recurrence of the explosion of fifty years, ago. A story of the catastrophic fire of July 9, 1856, was published in the March 10, 1950, issue of The Nugget. We have a few copies remaining of the 16-page Historical Edition Still Selling at