Salt Lake Herald | 1901-02-19 | Page 6 | Oil Can Exploded

OIL CAN EXPLODED Inventor of Light Process Meets With Mishap There was w an fl explosion In the office of cf f Judge IS 1 F Colborn yesterday after afternoon afternoon noon that caused considerable excite excitement ment among those tho e in the building and andin an andIn 1 in that immediate vicinity but no one was hurt and no damage of any conse consequence c consequence lse quence resulted The inventor of the new light was trying an experiment at atthe atthe atthe the time an experiment that had no connection whatever with the light heat and power discovery that has been baen patented by Salt Lake business men inn He was working with a Ii can containing by mistake left the valve open This used the explosion when light t was applied The bottom of Ithe the can blew out with a loud report and that was the extent of the injury A num number number number ber of men among them Judge Colborn were standing about the table when the explosion occurred They were bad badly badly ly 1 frightened but not In the least in injured inJured j red