Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-03-12 | Page 1 | Ogden School Blast Hurts 5

OGDEN SCHOOL BLAST HURTS 5 Pol Police ce Lay Explosion To Powder Caps OGDEN March 12 VP JP Fi Five girls were injured apparently none none seriously Wednesday at afternoon afternoon after after- ter- ter noon when hen an explosion occurred occurred occurred oc oc- oc- oc on n the second floor of the old building at the Mound Fort high school Police said the tine explosion appeared appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap to have been caused by bya a quantity of giant caps or powder powder powder pow pow- der which some boys bors had hidden in a hallway locker er Detective Henry G. G Allred All red said the explosion occurred while the hallway was sas filled with ith students He lie said the blast shook the building building build build- ing lug and tore holes in the floor floor- ing Bits of metal hurled into the air cut ut f five fe e girls about the face legs hands and ami other exposed exposed ex ex- ex- ex posed parts of their bodies Police said in investigating school explosion that one of the boys noticed smoke coming from one of the lockers lie He reached his hand in and pulled out sonic some smoldering papers from the locker lodier lock lodi er and put it on the floor It was sas then that it suddenly exploded Police said spontaneous combustion combustion com coni- bustion could have ha caused the paper in which the powder or caps was wrapped to ignite and start the explosion Injured were Norma Nornia Cross 16 of Seventeenth street Ocy He Helm 1111 15 of Washington boulevard Betty Fuller 16 of Sixteenth street Marion MacFarlane MacFarlane Mac Mac- Farlane 15 of 1137 Twelfth street and Grace Stone 15 of Twentieth Twentieth street students of the junior high division of the school They were treated by private physicians physicians physicians said Detective Allred Alired