Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-06-18 | Page 3 | Gunpowder Explodes

II I GUNPOWDER EXPLODES Four Small Boys Painfully Bun Burned d While Preparing Preparing aring ar- ar ing for the Fourth Th The explosion PI Slon of a paper sa sack k c con can n- n taming three fourths of cf a pound Ol nd of pI gun gunpowder powder at the corner corner of FIrst South a and d Eighth Eighth- East streets I last st evening ening re resulted re- re In n the painful injury of four boys bors They were loading a toy cannon by way of preparation for the Fourth of JJ July Y when somehow or oth other the s sack ck became bedame Ignited Then there was a a. blinding blinding- fl flash p e cloud of smoke and four prostrate prostrate- prostrate boys boys V age 16 the oldest of the four boys four boys in ill in pouring powder from the sack into the cannon spilled some som of it ft t on the ground His eleven eleven- year old bi other Bert Bei t sav saved sa ed all he could of i it and nd then applied a a. a to the grains which he could not pick up The flash set fire to the sack which Mont was holding in his hand and the explosion explosion cx- cx ex ex- follow followed ed edMont l I Mont s shirt caught fire but he showed his his' presence presen e of mind by throwing himself himself himself him him- self into the irrigating ditch He was badly burned about the face arms arms arns and body Bert had his face sorely scorched The o other her two boys Hiram Elsmore age 16 and HarlY Hany Beveridge 13 were burned about the face and head The first thre boys live at 51 South Eighth East street Beveridge's Beveridge s home Is South See Seventh East