Show r Only Blackened Wreckage Remains of Ore Plants Plant's Nerve jerve Center Y t J v. v J i f t 1 I i e f I i c v- v 1 J. J t t. t I i lu t t Jv 0 W b 4 M r w k kc H ii c i k j j fj c S S.- S. S v 7 S 4 4 p CAMERA TELLS GRAPHIC STORY OF ROARING BLAZE THAT SWEPT TOOELE SMELTER S1 INSTALLATION View of warehouse laboratory-warehouse building as wo workmen dug slowly through charred wreckage 4 Blaze in Tooele Sweeps Smelter Building 0 FBI Probes for Sabotage Evidence S Unit Housed j jy d y Shops h I ps Laboratory S S W Lr U r S r 1 T- T J. J Special ial to The Telegram a TOOELE May 9 Work 9 Work crews dug slowly into blackened wreckage of a sprawling warehouse-laboratory warehouse building at the International Smelting and Refining company smelter here Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day as it was disclosed the F FBI B I will investigate possibility of sabotage in connection with an early morning blaze that swept the structure I At Salt Lake City Jay C. C Newman Newman Newman New New- man special agent in charge of the F FBI B I field office said his agency is obtaining complete details details details de de- de- de tails of the fire He declined further comment Cause of the blaze remained hidden in tangled metal and charred wood and company officials officials dais declined to estimate damage until a full probe has been made Damage Extensive However unofficial estimates were that damage might reach as much as since the fire swept such vital installations as a warehouse assay office chemical 1 laboratory machine shop electrical electrical electrical cal shop thop and a test department The fire broke out about 1 a. a m m. I and before sufficient fire-fighting fire strength could be brought into play it was sweeping the big building about 70 feet wide and feet long Heaviest loss it was understood was the warehouse where vast supplies of machine parts tools and heavy equipment for the smelter smelter smelter ter was kept Loss there may run runas runas runas as high as it was understood understood under under- stood while that at the machine shop where other heavy equipment equipment equip equip- ment was destroyed was believed to amount to about Loss of ot the building itself w was s reportedly about the assay assay assay as as- I say department and testing division division divi divi- sion slon and electric shop Parts of ot the burned building ap- ap Continued on Page Pae Three Column One AZE tZE SWEEPS r SMELTER UNIT Continued from Page One 0 oily y were regarded as too erous Brous to enter but work crews Clearing wreckage from the thel theline l line aloe e shop Fire Chief Chic Leslie Gil- Gil Tooele le said he understood would run in excess o of paid said ald that cause may hava have hav a al leaking gas line supplying mical laboratory where th the broke out Assist Assist- hief hie Gillette said that a night nigh CSt sti only man in the building i vered red the blaze and sounded larm rm but that the flames pread too rapidly to save the thel l ing Id ids ds Rapidly K said said id that efforts to shut of ofas off as supply were unsuccessful that h-at the flames raced alon along alonge rie ne e to other parts o of the plant he had no idea ye yet w the line happened to leak pany fire crews joined firemen in keeping the blaze spreading to near-by near build build- ind md were aided by a shift in and md Ings were scorched on the building a few feet away the burned building and one f another adjacent structure torched and blistered Pite pile the apparent heavy loss re is is not expected seriously with operations said ip ny official who declined quoted aid said other plants jn in the have offered such facilities chine hine shops and laboratories L work will go on rose ose Week eek f lough he conceded there e- e e a a loss of even a week it itt at of t take long to make it up E the smelter is operating ys y- s' s Said Raid ld the company plans to toi i tithe lithe the burned installation al- al lit will face the question of gals priorities Until wreck- wreck cleared it cannot be de- de led how much of the plant salvaged he pointed out lough valuable records were are not regarded as since Irice there are duplicates announced official said the company Isy is y well covered by and declined to discuss pos pos- 7 of sabotage t Wook look at it from that ani an- an i l added Continues vs vs battled the fire in force about b ut 5 a. a m. m but as late late i ism m. m streams of water that team hissing upward from stal ital t l still were being played ne ne smoldering spots fire disrupted telephone to the smelter and only me me in operation was one guards guards' gate Servicemen Repairs pairs before re noon how- how i building appeared virtually sh shed d. d Some of the metal walls but ige was piled high inside eavy metal girders were fantastic shapes ding in the middle of the machine shop was a flamed flame- flame id d locomotive structure structure was raised when ant int was built in 1908 and Normally about 50 or 60 ork in it although only one ported in the building when out vials emphasized that the the plant was intact I I |