Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-09-22 | Page 38 | Town Dark as Owl Lights on Electric Line

I I Town Dark As Owl Lights On Electric Line PHILIPSBURG Mont Sept I 21 UP Philipsburg was plunged into blackness damage of f w was a. a sustained sixteen men nien were yvere ere thrown out 0 of w work rk a amina amine mine mina level was flooded and general gen gen- eral confusion reigned here last night all because an an owl mistook mis mis- took took took-a a a t High tension Wire for a a lA limb S. S The resulting short circuit it blew out a transformer cut cutoff o f. f the city lights tights and caused the water pumps pumps' of Trout mine to st stop p working When the pumps b failed failed S d to function the tho first mine level flooded and the sixteen miners were out o of a job for several days until repairs repairs' could be made As to the owl It is supremely supremelY- indifferent to havoc it it created It was instantly killed and dropped liI like e a plummet t from froni the wire to j S the ground rou d. d