Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-08-29 | Page 32 | Explosion Plants Home Plate Now it is "Home" Corner Stone

TELEGRAM EXPLOSION PLANTS HOME PLATE I 1 Salt Lake Home Built on Rock Blown From Quarry Quarry NOW IllS IT IS HOME CORNER STONE r-I- r HERE are aro a number tIt f t residences residences resi resi- THERE I dences lences and public buildings in Salt Lake Inke famous association as as- with the early development devel devel- of or lh time the community hut hint there ate aie few which possess so HU historic a feature In their construction as that of the dwelling of oC J. J A A. Ekman In 1877 when Salt Lake Wid WMS young a great explosion clun occurred lany L Many old residents of or the tho city will remember member tho the Incident To ro the lie north of the business district In iii the neighborhood of Capitol hut hill were three or 01 t flour stone houses used h by hy local fur for storing stor itOl In ing powder Ilo One day two young joung men rifles to shoot went cent on the hill bill with small game then much In evidence When the they red neared the re ion of or the powder houses one of or them fired Ired at atthe atthe atthe the door of or one line of oC the tho magazines The rime Impact discharged the j store of oC high explosives and the youthful hunters were blown to bits The Th re remaining remaining re- re magazines exploded a a. moment moment moment mo mo- ment later Residents for tur a distance of or ten miles heard tho the report Sand Saud and anti rocks s flow fio over r the business district and windows In Iner every er building within R. R of oC miles wore w shattered red But th tho thA town people were not nearly nearly near near- ly so fO b badly affected by th the lie shock as aswell well as the destruction as aim were the tho residents of or tho the scattered homes home on the tho northern bench Here the tha Ekman Ekman Ek Ek- man family lived elf When hen the tho ox- ox occurred the windows of or the lie house bouse were blown In and ami among other oth othi- er em evId evidences of tho the disaster I it I u a t large e red sandstone rock mock about two feet square came sailing over the lie hilt hill and fell Cell In a n field where the L L. L D. D H S. S hospital lion hos pita pital now Jiow stands The block of oC stone was wan evidently e from the wall all of oC one om of oC the powder er houses For Ful man many years e UH the boys bos of oC the lie neighborhood used mined tl the rock lock for Cor a ahome ahome home honit base baso on their baseball diamond When hen tho the boys changed ell their heir baseball base base- laMe laMe- hall ball grounds to the corner cornel of oC TJ It street and Seventh c a avenue they hauled belt belt- boulder along Yeats later when J. J A A. Ekman one une of oC the youthful Inhabitants of or the he lI neighborhood at the tho time limo of oC the lie ex explosion ex- ex had grown up ho lie decided to build himself a homE borne at Eighth ave e nuo nile and C streets He lie conceived the Idea Ider of placing the well vell known roc rock In the lie walls of or his house to serve ye as asa asa a corner comei stone Its It's hl history y tolY had spread far and wide and ancl the block was MI n of oC a at an being part of oC the quickest err delivery of or building stone ever made from a a. City Cily Creek Creel canyon quarry So when FI Ekman man built his hiM house In 1884 1584 the mason placed the time locally fa famous laI la- la re redstone ston block Into the I ture lun It stands there and anel Is in Isan inan an object of or Interest to those thoRe who know how bow It came cam there here