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Show NEAR DEATH BY DYNAMITE Farmer of Bountiful Has His Wagon Torn to Pieces; He Is Uninjured. Thomas Harter of Bountiful had a thrilling experience and a narrow escape es-cape from death yesterday afternoon as he was on his way to his home from Salt Lake. Harter, who was riding in a farm wagon, wa-gon, had reached a point about three blocks north of Warm Springs; when he passed over a wooden box In the middle of the road. The front wheel of the wagon struck the box and burst it, when an article resembling a small tallow tal-low candle fell under the back wheel. Then there was an explosion so terrific ter-rific that it could be heard a mile away. When Harter could recover himself sufficiently suf-ficiently to look abont and realize be was not dead he found that the back of his wagon was entirely gone, and a hole three feet deep marked the 6pot in the road where the explosion occurred. I Neither he nor his team was injured. Harter examined the little wooden box. and found that it contained fifty pounds of giant powder. The wheel of his wagon had struck one stick of the explosive and had set it off. By some freak the remainder did not explode, though it was but a few inches from the explosion. It is supposed that the box fell from a load of powder which was being hauled from the Oregon- Short Line yards to one of the powder-houses on the hill. |