Show A CAR OF DYNAMITE S EXPLODES Havoc Wo WorKed ked at Beck BecK's s Hot Springs Hot Springs When 15 Tons 15 Tons j Go Up in SmoKe moKe WARNINGS IN TIME PROBABLY SAVE LIFE LIFE- I I City City- Cut Off Oft From Power and F From om Communication Communication i tion With Ogden Fifteen tons of or dynamite on on- the Oregon Short Line tracks In inthe the north railroad yards ards near Bocks Bock's Hot Springs c exploded at at 1225 this afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon the report being heard throughout through through- out the city No lives wore lost and no one was wa injured though the car carin carin carin in which the powder had bad b been n stor stored d was blown to fragments and scattered over tho the surrounding country for half halt halfa a mile tulle The tracks tracks also wore ba badly ty twisted and torn tom for fer a a. distance of fifty yards from where the car stood Following tho the report the tho power of the Utah Li Light ht and Railway company wont off off lights went out and street car service was suspended and this led te the tho belief that tho explosion had bc bee been a caused by tho blowing out of some machiner machinery ma ma- chinery chiner at tho the West Vest Temple plant of the company compa Inquiry thero there however elicited ted the information n that the trouble had occurred ne near the tho Hot Springs and th that t tas as a result of the he explosion I the c com m. m 1 pany's high tension wires tension wires in that neigh neighborhood h had boon been blown down A ere of trouble men was immediately sera seu out to repair the damage Laborers Are Warned Loss Loss of life lifo would very proba 11 havo hato resulted had it not been that warr- warr ar of im impending J danger b b by by- John McDuff of 2000 fleck Beck street who ho saw that th the car ar was on firo fire and ami shouted to the laborers Rb working nearby to run for their lives Jives McDuff then ran to his o own yn home ab about ut a quarter of a amile amile mile nule from rom tho the tracks to warn his fam Lam ily Ito IIo had bad entered Jho door he states when the tiie explosion occurred and tho the force of it knocked tho the plaster from front the walls of his homo home broke broko tho the windows windows win win- dows tipped the furniture over o and shook things things' up Neither McDuff Me- Me Duff nor any of his family was injured McDuff states that the tho car TV was was' as very pro probably set afire b by sparks from A passing locomotive and he lie believes belie that bat ho no could have extinguished tho the flames with witha a pail of water waler when he first saw them His first thought however how how- over ever was naturally for tor the safet safety o or oL those working about and of his bis wife wiCo and o that he lost no time in warning warn warn- warne in jag ing them of the danger A telephone call caU was sent sont into lUtO police headquarters und and the tho fire d department artmont and tho the patrol wagon and Fire Firo ire Chief Glore went o out t to investigate conditions Tho The explosion cau caused cd considerable worry wor isor or orr r ry and speculation downtown somo of ot of the nervous ones onest expressing a n. belief that Halley's comet had wandered off at a tangent and struck the earth and tho superstitious fearing that it was some somo unknown dan danger er presaged ed by Friday Priday tho It It believed that on only I about halt half of or ortho tho the contents of the tho car exploded and that half haIr of or the dynamite was WM consumed b bv by fire When hIm the tho explosion occurred Chief Glore who was standing standing- about a 8 quarter of a 3 utile away said a streak of ot flame shot forty feet Into the air Digs Dies Huge Hugo Hole Holo Tho The powerful e explosive worked downward downward down down- usual with dynamite w ward as Is the case A hole ten feet teet deep and about fifty feet each ach wa way vay was blown into th the th ground roun where tho the car stood Pieces of or tho time car were scattered over tb the country for half halfa a a. mile mite around Dirt was heaped up on the railroad tracks in groat r at rn v tt H d delay delay- lay lay- Salt Lake Lako il Ogden Osden for a a. time Tho track upon which th was as stand stand- In lug ins was twisted and broken off b by terrific Impact At IC least st ISO feet of tho the rails ralls were wera put out of ot commission on the on one track tr A score of telephone and telegraph poles were broken and splinters scattered to tho the four winds Forty strands of telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone wires were ripped from the tha pol poland poleS ani and anI broken off orca The rear trucks of or tho the powder car were eTe sent sp-it tt into the round ground thirty feet fro from where time tilt ar car blow blew up One of tho front wheels sas 9 thrown up tip on the tho foothills A heavy Y ft several t oral erot yards ard away rail mil way wa to tl tose d 8 cl Into th thin the street t ind antl herd bent Pieces of f the tIm front trucks could bo be found Cound Coundon on the tIme foothills a considerable distance a away Va Time Tile report and accompanying S shock of ot I he the explosion could coul bo be heard and amid felt Celt fa lot for I Mocks blockS 5 Windows were shattered in H parts of th time i city E. E R R. Grant who resides at Third North and Third Thin West est streets aa Ha says s that ho was on his his front porch when tho the explosion occurred and ard that the force creel of I it knocked hima him a against a the side of the house nearly rendering him unconscious S Another r Car Near Is Safe Sate The explosion wl widen which ch too took this afternoon Is la within a R short distance of whore where three cars of or hl high hick explosives blow blowup up tip a few years cars carsa a ago o Believing that the report of or the hc explosion tl today ay meant a ma repetition o of th the previous serious blow blowup up hundreds of or persons want to the railroad tracks this afternoon in carriage car car- i n automobiles and on foot Coot to witness witness wit wit- ness the queer antics of the giant dyna- dyna mite t O rt fret feet t of or where tho the car CUl exploded exploded ex ox- was W another carload carlond of or d This or car was as not injured in tho the least JCl After Arter the tho explosion th the remaining carload carload carload car car- load was S 1 mo c moved mo 1 o cr onto the tho Denver cr Rio Grande tracks Warning of ot tho the danger cr was given Ivon In tn time to have hav nil all trains on the three railways rall- rall ways to O Ogden en stopped topped north und and south of tho the d danger n rl point and no damage o re resulted re- re other than to suited t. t to the thc railways tracks and wires t |