Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-04-25 | Page 3 | Heroism of Alcohol Plant Employe Results in Death

HEROISM OF ALCOHOL PLANT RESULTS RESUL TS IN DEATH Still Operator Loses Life tn fn Effort to Save Superintendent SPRINGVILLE April Harvey Lyn Knight 32 of Sprin today to to- day paId with his life for a valiant but attempt to save the life or of fellow worker in the a a- lire fire Tuesday at the Spring Commercial Alcohol company plant near here Before he died from burns at a local hosp hospital tal at p. p m. m Tuesday Mr Knight told physicians he had started from the building when an explosion set off the disastrous bl blaze but returned because he feared O. O W. W Flygare plant superintendent who was with wilh him at the time or of the blast was lying unconscious in the building Unable to find Mr Fly Flygare are who had left leU the building safely Mr Knight stumbled and rolled down three flights or of stairs his clothing ablaze When r I got outside Mr Flygare said r I saw Lyn was vas not behind me I turned to go back after him but the bIg tank on top exploded bathing bath bath- ing the building in James flames It was hilly live minutes before Lyn stag out Could Have Jae Saved Saed Self Had Mr Knight not made his heroic effort to save Mr Flygare he would according to witnesses have saved him himself Jt Although Mr Flygare's clothing was ablaze he extinguished it in time to escape injury The explosion and fire was the second at the Springville plant in which Mr Flygare has figured The first which occurred last Septem Septem- ber did little damage but seriously burned the sup Tuesdays Tuesday's blast and resulting fire destroyed an estimated gallons of oC industrial alcohol and caused dam age approximating according according accord accord- ing to company olicia Fire departments from Provo Springville and Spanish Fork responded reo re- to alarms but were handi- handi 4 F c ji 4 I I 1 j k- k 4 I 10 4 11 2 j t i I ruIns or of the alcohol plant are shown MOwn above e Inset O. O W. W Flygare plant superintendent who miraculously escaped injury capped in their tight fight by lack ot of water Access to chemIcals stored in inthe inthe the plant for such an emergency was impossible because ause of oC the flames Blasts hamper Firemen A series ot of blasts as drum after drum holding 65 55 gallons o of alcohol I each exploded further hampered firemen's efforts and imperiled them b by flying embers and collapsing walls Mr KnIght was born in Fruitland New Mexico November 6 1901 He moved to Eureka at an early earl age receivIng his education jn in public schools there In 1930 Mr Knight was employed by the alcohol company as a boiler operator later becoming a still operator He is survived by his widow Mrs Goldsbrough Knight a daughter Maril Marilyn n 4 4 and au an infant son Newell seven months his mother Mrs 1 Elsie Walker KnIght two brothers Nello and Frank all or of New Mexico three sis sis- t rs Nellie and Ailene of Shiprock New Mexico md and Mrs Mary Kings Kines- land Alamo Nevada and a grandmother grand grand- moth mother r Mrs J. J H. H Walker Walk r Farmington Farmington Farm Farm- ington New Mexico