Show WOMEN OWN I HELP SAVE TWO IN POWDER EXPLOSION Two vo Trains of Passengers Imperiled When Two Carloads aBlow Blow LJ Up Mrs June M. M Hunter Mrs J. J Olsen and ond William Wiliam Harris Give Warn Warning n The prompt action of Mrs rs J. J Olsen Mrs Irs J June una M Hunter and Villi William am Harris saved the lives Jives of more than more thant two hundred people shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday y afternoon Four carloads of powder one of black and three of giant exploded with terrific force near Dear Becks Beck's 8 Hot I Hots Springs The explosion came ame just when hen the Lagoon train carrying more than han one hundred d passengers and the Cache 9 h I valley train trai on the Or Oregon g Short Line can carrying gj nearly the same saIne number were due at that po point t. t Both w women men and H Harris di discovered c vered the cars on fire and hurried down the track to top the the approaching trains frain Mrs Olsen Qisen w was s the first to fo see the danger danger- anger au and I forgetting all else remembered that at the ne 4 o'clock train oni the Lagoon road was about due She hurried down the track a and d. d with her apron flagged the train a half mile from the scene of f the explosion While the she was was' trying to tell crew the danger ah ahead ad t the e explosion occurred Men and women became panic stricken and made a amad mad rush Tush to get put of cars Brigham H H. Rob Rob- tf w. w tJ 4 u pa passenger on on the th tram train and nd warn Q t Wd s b Uj- Uj g s paa iss ills Hh prom prompt W action cdon proba probably by saved av aveda d a i number umber of the passer passenger from being beilig injured in in the finish crush Mrs Hunter Hunter Also Also Acts Acts- A ts At about bout th the same saihe time that Mrs Mrs- Olsen discovered the danger and start and started start ed to warn th the Lagoon passengers Mrs Hunter also discovered the danger She rushed to the house where she was stopping stopping stop stop- pin ping and gr grasping h her r child rush rushed d down the road yelling to her year ten old son to w warn warn tho rn tho Short Line train The boy met Harris Barris and told him of the danger Harris hurried down the Short Line track and flagged the Cache valley alley local a half mile from the tho scene of tho the explosion The fir first explosion n probably that in inthe inthe inthe the the car of black powder was plainly heard by the pas passengers engers of both trains It Tt was followed a few seconds later b ba bya by a terrific explosion that fairly shook shoo the ground round on which the trains were standing Windows in both trains were shattered and the passengers who hadnot had hadnot hadnot not been informed of what was to be expected ed believed that an earthquake had occurred Tracks Torn Tom Up The four cars cais were totally destroyed destroy d. d At the point where they had stood a a. ahole ahole hole was t torn rn nearly yards long and twenty feet deep in many places The tracks tracks of of the Oregon Short Line ine the theRlO Rio Grande and the Lagoon are close together Six hundred feet of the Short Line Lino track feet of the Lagoon track track and a little more than feet of the Rio Eio Grande track were were destroyed Men werd er hurried from the tle city to repair the damages and in a short time the tho Rio Eio Grande track was open to traffie traffic fic fie and was was used by the Short Line until this morning The Lagoon track is being repaired toda today The explosion cut o off olf telephone and telegraphic communication between this city ity and e every ery wire being down The high tension wire wire of the Utah Light and Railway company was also brok broken n and for lora fora a short time street car carr traffic in this city was stopp stopped d. d Houses within a 0 radius of a a. mile from the scene scone of the explosion were more more or less damaged In some of them only a few windows were damaged while others were so badly shaken haken and damaged that they will not be fit for use until they are thoroughly overhauled Childs Child's Narrow Escape When the second shock came a anum number number num num- ber of people were thrown from their feet but fortunately no one was seriously seriously seri serio injured One of the narrow escapes es es- es capes capes- was capes was that of the little child of Mrs Hunter wb whom wham m tho the mother lifted d from the bed when she started to give the alarm When Mrs Hunter returned to the house she found that the bed in which the child had been lying was as covered with more more than a It foot of or ll plaster plaster plas plas- s. s ter and other debris and the roof of the house had been torn partly off and had sunk Had the child been in the bed she would undoubtedly h have ve been killed The home borne of Bishop Jones Tones of the Twenty-third Twenty ward was badly wrecked as were a number of other houses Rocks Bocks and stones were wore hurled a dis diss tance of more afore 11 than half balf a al mile by bv the explosion which was wu plainly heard inthe inthe in inthe the city Passengers on a a. Fort Douglas Douglas Doug Doug- las car near Mt 1 Olivet plainly heard the report at a distance of more than six miles milts and saw the smoke as it ascended ascended ascended as as- over over the mountains As soon as the explosion was heard beard Chief Sheets and a number of policemen police police- men hurried to the scene in in the patrol wa wagon on They found that there was no need for their serY services services ces A large pane of glass in the window above the door of the Cutler Cutler- Cutler Brothers Brothers company's office 36 South Main street was broken Plates Pates on the shelves of t of-t cafe af in the Elks clubhouse in is State Stated i street were rattled and the the report report was was distinctly heard in other parts pam of the the I Ic c city tv The powder that exploded was the property of the the- Paterson Strevell-Paterson Paterson com om pany West t I First South street et and was WU on n th the Oregon Shore Line track pr preparatory r t tb to being moved to the mag m g- g azine azure which is a a. short ort distance to the northeast The explosion is blamed on the the passing of an eng engine ne a a short time o before A spark from the engine s set t fire to the grass which in turn set fire to the cars A number numb r of section men were working a a short dist distance nce north of of- th the cars ars when they caught u ht fire The warning warning sign Powder son on the the the cars deterred the men from m making king any attempt to extinguish the flames names Instead the they sought safety in flight B. 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H Roberts Roberts' Work Wort Brigham H IL Roberts who helped allay the panic which threatened among pass pas passengers as- as on on the Lagoon train said atter the eg explosion My part in subduing what might have been an outbreak was very small Everyone was was somewhat excited of course but all I did was to suggest to tomy tomy tomy my fellow fellow passengers that the d danger nger would be less if it they remained inside the car instead of going out where th they y might night be exposed to flying debris Consequently Consequently Con Con- we all aU stayed inside and arid nobody no no- body was hurt Other passengers rs were loud load in their praise of ot Mr Roberts Roberts' coolness and I presence of mind Clarence Anderson another passenger passenger ger gel on the Lag Lagoon n train was standing on a post nearly half a mile aw away y when i ia a six inch iron bolt crashed into the post I It t missed his head by only a a. afew afew few inches When the train stopped we did not know what the trouble was said Yr Mr I Anderson Mrs Olsen could speak very little English but her het excited manner told us there was danger of some sort The explosion cal calls to mind the explosion ex ex- explosion x- x of a powder p magazine on Capitol Capitol Cap Cap- I itol hill nearly thirty years ears aJ ago In which three lives were lost and thousands thou thousands thou thou- sands of dollars worth of window glass glassand and other property destroyed Three young men had been hunting in ia i the vicinity of Ensign peak On returning re- re turning turning- one of them took a a. shot at th the top of a powder magazine The ma magazine maga- maga zine aine and two others in the vicinity ex- ex exploded vi ex-vi and three young men were literally lit lit- i orally blown to atoms A short time later the City Council passed an ordinance ordinance nance prohibiting the storage of lar large e quantities of powder within the city limits Since that time the powder magazines have been located on the side of the mountain n a short distance north of Becks Beck's 8 Hot Springs in Davia Davis county |