June 3, 1970 (8 pages)

5 v3 Riad Seredo! Wold NoorSome Wey hy By Wid Toa bee yay Wy © Yen 2 ORI is SAE oe a EN er He ep ah Tete) Peg ROE ASG REE OORT A OO I Var ar REL Wal EY fd Md Si eR ee MEE PERE RS Rh. TERRE OEE © OOTP £6 PEATODICALS seeTiON, 5/16y70" /, ~ em a Sacro. CAL. 95814. . DEN a j Serving the communities of Nevada City, ity, . Grass Valley,& Red Dog,g, YYou Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Al narng gg aig and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, La Batr wanton, pony he ad fig : atdale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City Selby Flat, Grizzly ill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, -Scotch:Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol » Quaker Hill, t Willow’ Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. ~ oo pee agree paramere 91) <a step o—upmm nel an al a ———— 2 lA nmr a Gis at. wenger f NUMBER 72 VOLUME 49 “10 Cents ACopy Published Wednesdays, Nevada City Explosion of six tons of powder rocked NC in 1900 Brown, Trauner, Long (EDITOR'S NOTE; The Nugget carried an historically important series of ar_ egnnsranaamemnnnnenrtaminsinieratiamianmion Empire then were compiled into a book, only a few of which remain today, Because of local interest in things historical, The Nugget has been and will continue to republish those’ articles in ensuing weeks and encourages its readers to clip the stories and keep them for future refer town were victims of the explosion. Plate glass windows shatteréd included the following: Washington schoolhouse, W. G. Richards resideice on Broad, B.F. pane The greatest explosion in the recorded history of Nevada county occurred ia Ne~ vada City at 10:35. p.m., July 19, 1900, when six tons of powder rocked the city with two explosions, shattering every plate _ window in town, ‘According to the Nevada Daily Trans cript, 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 bya 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 a ly in the Transcript reading, "Orders taken for plate glass and larger sizes ence and recollection.) i tutely placed an advertisement immediate ticles in 1951 titled "100 Years of Nevada . County,"" These vignettes of our Goldea ‘Val WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1970 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 Reward mine near the south city limits. The cause of the blast has never been determined, although some thought deteriorated nitroglycerine was the energizing force, . Legg. &.Shaw Co., the predecessors of the Alpha Hardware Co,, had a powder magazine 425 feet away from the Turner magazine that contained 10 tons of powder. Although the building was damaged dy falling debris, powder was spilled from cases onto the floor, and a revived fire the following afternoon threatened the magazine, the Legg & Shaw building was secured from: the explosion, The explosion was reported heard and the shock felt in Grass Valley, North Bloomfield, Auburn and Sacramento, but first rumors of damage tn the quartz city were unfounded. . The Transcript reported that many women fainted and went into hysterics. The explosion tore a crater in the ground 25 to 30 feet deep, 49 feet long and 38 feet wide, plowed up ground for 100 feet around’ and uprooted trees of two to three feet in diameter. The offi. Cials 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 eight inches thick. The crater still remains and can be seen on the left hand side of . Reward Street. _ Glass and particularly plate window was the principal item in Nevada City damaged by the blast. Legg & Shaw as retain county posts of sheet glass," Several chimneys in the Snell residence, Tom Canfield residence, N.P. Brown residence. George E, Truner -hardward store, Grimes Clothing Empor. fum and two vacant stores adjoining, F.J. Wayne Brown, John -Trauner, Bob Long and Albert (Chick) _. Ahearn retained their county offices Tuesday, and Leo Todd and Harry Wolters won their way into a runoff for Superior é Court Judge, Brown had 7,281,votes for sheriff to John Berryman'sd 4,915 for auditor to 4,507 for Richar 303; Trauner had for public administrator to 1,467 Luetje Building, A, Hartung residence, David Muir residence, Mrs, Hocking's variety store, Miss Eleanor Hoeft's millinery shop, Golden & Co., Maher & Co., itt; Ahearn had 6,059 for Long had 940 votes for Jonie Reed and 1,325 for James Else, Robert Partington and tel, Legg & Shaw Co,, Hibernia hall, Ott's _ Todd's 2,829 votes and Wolters' 2,665 placed them first and second for judge, well ahead of the rest of the field. : can Tea Co.,. Moore's Photograph Gal-. Also running Ses pseptecrs) will be incumbent William ial district four.Thomas National Hotel, Stover building, Union Ho Assay Office, South Yuba Water company, James Kinkead's furniture store, Ameri drugs store, W, lery, H. Dickerman' Williams residence, and the Transcript. Property damage included: Stage of Nevada Theater pushed from walls and chimney fell thru the storeroom of A.O. Allen, destruction of O'Donnell memorial window in St. Canice Catholic Cfurch, side of Reward mill blown and rafters: district’ three supervisor to 440 for 398 for Bert See. 2 gaan 668 votes and Filer ze is 371, just 10 more than Ken Maish Sheriff Brown led in percentages for contested office, garnering 75 per cent of the vote, He was Closely followed by Ahearn with just under 70 per cent, Long obtained 53 per ¢ent over two opponents to avoid a runoff, , oe. ‘and windows broken, soda works of Daniels & Powell, cyanide plant of Provi dgnce Mine wrecked, Merrifield hoist mov ed 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 of the Champion hoist building, doors of A.D, Allen 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 near magazine was wrecked but they were later found unin. jured, office of Pioneer Reduction Works wrecked, Nevada City Ice Cream Company barn damaged, drugs at Dickerman's store spilled on the floor, front of Perry man house on Piety hill was knocked off. Other accidents included: Chris Hansen knocked down while harnessing Fred Miller's horse at the James Hennessey 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 trus tees 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 nis 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. A check for $95,000 was presented Monday for the buil program of Nevada City School District. Steve Ogilvie (1 of Bank of America presents the check to county clerk Ted Kohler in return for the bonds Kohler (seated) is holding. Mrs, Vernon Stoll Kohler) headed a icommittee to sell the bonds to local residents to build the new Seven Hills School. Marcella by age county tax collector is right and Supt. Dan Woodard of the Nevada City School District is right rear, The 95,000 goes into the district's building fund which already has 805,000 from the sale of bonds last year. ao Ba Ae WE nesitied Ava rie Uae y cme te are Pg ee, eS Ok ak es ae $8 at ae Bhd 8 OR DN ae ae OM

5 v3 Riad Seredo! Wold NoorSome Wey hy By Wid Toa bee yay Wy © Yen 2 ORI is SAE oe a EN er He ep ah Tete) Peg ROE ASG REE OORT A OO I Var ar REL Wal EY fd Md Si eR ee MEE PERE RS Rh. TERRE OEE © OOTP £6 PEATODICALS seeTiON, 5/16y70" /, ~ em a Sacro. CAL. 95814. . DEN a j Serving the communities of Nevada City, ity, . Grass Valley,& Red Dog,g, YYou Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Al narng gg aig and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, La Batr wanton, pony he ad fig : atdale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City Selby Flat, Grizzly ill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, -Scotch:Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol » Quaker Hill, t Willow’ Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. ~ oo pee agree paramere 91) <a step o—upmm nel an al a ———— 2 lA nmr a Gis at. wenger f NUMBER 72 VOLUME 49 “10 Cents ACopy Published Wednesdays, Nevada City Explosion of six tons of powder rocked NC in 1900 Brown, Trauner, Long (EDITOR'S NOTE; The Nugget carried an historically important series of ar_ egnnsranaamemnnnnenrtaminsinieratiamianmion Empire then were compiled into a book, only a few of which remain today, Because of local interest in things historical, The Nugget has been and will continue to republish those’ articles in ensuing weeks and encourages its readers to clip the stories and keep them for future refer town were victims of the explosion. Plate glass windows shatteréd included the following: Washington schoolhouse, W. G. Richards resideice on Broad, B.F. pane The greatest explosion in the recorded history of Nevada county occurred ia Ne~ vada City at 10:35. p.m., July 19, 1900, when six tons of powder rocked the city with two explosions, shattering every plate _ window in town, ‘According to the Nevada Daily Trans cript, 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 bya 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 a ly in the Transcript reading, "Orders taken for plate glass and larger sizes ence and recollection.) i tutely placed an advertisement immediate ticles in 1951 titled "100 Years of Nevada . County,"" These vignettes of our Goldea ‘Val WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1970 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 Reward mine near the south city limits. The cause of the blast has never been determined, although some thought deteriorated nitroglycerine was the energizing force, . Legg. &.Shaw Co., the predecessors of the Alpha Hardware Co,, had a powder magazine 425 feet away from the Turner magazine that contained 10 tons of powder. Although the building was damaged dy falling debris, powder was spilled from cases onto the floor, and a revived fire the following afternoon threatened the magazine, the Legg & Shaw building was secured from: the explosion, The explosion was reported heard and the shock felt in Grass Valley, North Bloomfield, Auburn and Sacramento, but first rumors of damage tn the quartz city were unfounded. . The Transcript reported that many women fainted and went into hysterics. The explosion tore a crater in the ground 25 to 30 feet deep, 49 feet long and 38 feet wide, plowed up ground for 100 feet around’ and uprooted trees of

two to three feet in diameter. The offi. Cials 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 eight inches thick. The crater still remains and can be seen on the left hand side of . Reward Street. _ Glass and particularly plate window was the principal item in Nevada City damaged by the blast. Legg & Shaw as retain county posts of sheet glass," Several chimneys in the Snell residence, Tom Canfield residence, N.P. Brown residence. George E, Truner -hardward store, Grimes Clothing Empor. fum and two vacant stores adjoining, F.J. Wayne Brown, John -Trauner, Bob Long and Albert (Chick) _. Ahearn retained their county offices Tuesday, and Leo Todd and Harry Wolters won their way into a runoff for Superior é Court Judge, Brown had 7,281,votes for sheriff to John Berryman'sd 4,915 for auditor to 4,507 for Richar 303; Trauner had for public administrator to 1,467 Luetje Building, A, Hartung residence, David Muir residence, Mrs, Hocking's variety store, Miss Eleanor Hoeft's millinery shop, Golden & Co., Maher & Co., itt; Ahearn had 6,059 for Long had 940 votes for Jonie Reed and 1,325 for James Else, Robert Partington and tel, Legg & Shaw Co,, Hibernia hall, Ott's _ Todd's 2,829 votes and Wolters' 2,665 placed them first and second for judge, well ahead of the rest of the field. : can Tea Co.,. Moore's Photograph Gal-. Also running Ses pseptecrs) will be incumbent William ial district four.Thomas National Hotel, Stover building, Union Ho Assay Office, South Yuba Water company, James Kinkead's furniture store, Ameri drugs store, W, lery, H. Dickerman' Williams residence, and the Transcript. Property damage included: Stage of Nevada Theater pushed from walls and chimney fell thru the storeroom of A.O. Allen, destruction of O'Donnell memorial window in St. Canice Catholic Cfurch, side of Reward mill blown and rafters: district’ three supervisor to 440 for 398 for Bert See. 2 gaan 668 votes and Filer ze is 371, just 10 more than Ken Maish Sheriff Brown led in percentages for contested office, garnering 75 per cent of the vote, He was Closely followed by Ahearn with just under 70 per cent, Long obtained 53 per ¢ent over two opponents to avoid a runoff, , oe. ‘and windows broken, soda works of Daniels & Powell, cyanide plant of Provi dgnce Mine wrecked, Merrifield hoist mov ed 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 of the Champion hoist building, doors of A.D, Allen 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 near magazine was wrecked but they were later found unin. jured, office of Pioneer Reduction Works wrecked, Nevada City Ice Cream Company barn damaged, drugs at Dickerman's store spilled on the floor, front of Perry man house on Piety hill was knocked off. Other accidents included: Chris Hansen knocked down while harnessing Fred Miller's horse at the James Hennessey 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 trus tees 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 nis 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. A check for $95,000 was presented Monday for the buil program of Nevada City School District. Steve Ogilvie (1 of Bank of America presents the check to county clerk Ted Kohler in return for the bonds Kohler (seated) is holding. Mrs, Vernon Stoll Kohler) headed a icommittee to sell the bonds to local residents to build the new Seven Hills School. Marcella by age county tax collector is right and Supt. Dan Woodard of the Nevada City School District is right rear, The 95,000 goes into the district's building fund which already has 805,000 from the sale of bonds last year. ao Ba Ae WE nesitied Ava rie Uae y cme te are Pg ee, eS Ok ak es ae $8 at ae Bhd 8 OR DN ae ae OM