Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-10-01 | Page 2 | Surface Plant of South Hecla Mine Destroyed

Surface Plant of South Hecla Mine I Destroyed The thre three story story boarding house at t the South Hecla mine at Alta transformer house machine machine ma- ma chine and blacksmith shops burned to o th the gr ground und when lightning struck the ic camp late Wednesday night The buildings were a mass of ruins within fifteen minutes after lightning hit the boarding house A L heavy snowstorm raged while th the ic flames roared I Three miners David Kisselburg Charles Chales and arid Douglas Despain who were underground while the fire was vas In progress were saved from suffocation because the direction of an n air current prevented the smoke from rom entering the Dwyer tunnel level evel A. A O. O Jacobson mana manager er of the Mineral Veins Coalition Mines Jines company com com- pany any sent men to warn warn the trio trion In n the tire mine who escaped George H. H Watson atson president and manager of the Alta Merger Mines l company is in Alta at the present Urn time me