Salt Lake Telegram | 1946-12-30 | Page 11 | S. L. Woman Escapes Water Heater Blast

' J? ' - ' 5; - , -. ' . " ' . . ... ,. . ' - ..' i ' - - I,- I , .in,, ri t i i i i) r f'n'i'Tl IFragmeats of the metal from this demolished stove I at a Salt Lake residence narrowly mlwed a Salt 4 water Jacket which exploded Monday morning Lake woman.. Inspecting damage is Bay Jensen. DOMESTIC SHRAPNEL S. L. Woman Escapes Water Heater Blast Battalion Chief U W: Jolley of the Salt Lake fire department termed Mrs. Huettel's escape "miraculous." "Had Mrs. Huettel been standing stand-ing on the north aide of the stove she certainly would have been injured in-jured at least seriously," Chief Jolley said. "Any one of those pieces of metal would have injured her had it struck her." "When I heard it pop I went out the door." Thus did Mrs. John Huettel, 730 Blair st, explain her escape from death or serious injury Monday at 10:40 a.ra. when a water jacket exploded at the home of her daughter at 75 Blair st Mrs. Huettel explained she had entered the house a few moments earlier and had started a fire in the coal stove to "warm things up a little." Her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. James W. McDowell, are in the process of moving from the house, she said, and no one was in the house Sunday night or Monday morning until she arrived. A few momenta after she started start-ed the fire and while she was standing near the -kitchen door about 10 feet from the stove, the water jacket exploded, hurling large and small pieces of cast iron about the room as though a shell had burst '