Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-12-12 | Page 1 | Dynamite is Found under S. P. Bridge

YU N SHI K VI piesident of Chlni who has ac cepted tendei of throne by the council of stite I tS 1 v DYNAMITE 15 FOUi IMUEHSP. BRIDGE Officials Believe Explosives Were Placed to Blow Up Powder and Oil Trains OAKLAND OIL, Dec 1L A paek age containing six sticks of dynamite, equipped with caps and fuses, was found today by an Italian fisherman under a bridge over Alhambra creek a short distance west from Martinez which carries the mam line tracks of the Southern Pacific 'railroad Over this bridge pass trains carrying the ont put of the Hercules Powder company and the Standard Oil company to the east. levis of the fnd was conveyed at once to officials of the Southern la cific and to Sheriff B E Veale of Contra Costa county at Martinez who co operated m the formation of parties of officers to search the region for sim liar packages which it was feared m ght have been placed under others of the numerous bridges and culverts Special Agent James Pr ndeville of the Southern Paeif c company said to n ght that the eat re western div s on of the railroad, which extends from Oakland to Ogden Utah would be placed under a special guard Both Pnndeville and Sheriff Veale expressed the op nion that the dyna m te was placed under the br dge by some person dee rous of imped ng the progress of war mun t ons wh ch it is sa d are shipped over the main line in large quant t es Tra ns of explosives frequently are d spatched by the Her cules Powder company and every oth er day the Standard 0 1 company d s latches a train manned by armed guards for Ch cago under a s xty hour s hedule