Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-05-24 | Page 11 | Autoblows Up

AUT0BL0WS UP. Street-Sweeper Throws Match Under Machine, Explosion Follows. NEW TORK. May H A large touring car belonging to Mrs. Howard Gould exploded this afternoon In front of a garage at Thirty-third Thirty-third street and Fifth avenu through the carelessness of a street sweeper, who threw a lighted match underneath the machine whre there was a quantity of gasoline which had leaked from the tank. The explosion could be heard for blocks an.1 caused excitement among the guests of the Waldorf Astoria The automobile was wrecked, tho damage being be-ing estimated at &''"l The machine, which was umwcuplod. had Just been taken out of the garage, where It had been undergoing ro-palre