Show I DYNAMITE ON MAIN STREET I Attempt to Blow Up Big Derrick At Hotel Utah This Morning TWO mo EXPLOSIONS SHAKE CITY Men Drive Up in Buggy and Plant The Giant Powder With I Time Fuses I ISide Was Ws on un Other Side of ot Bis BI Excavation J More Nol Noise c Than Damage c SERIES OF ACCIDENTS TS Guy Gu ropes or of derrick cut six weeks ago causing demolition of at property worth wOIth 1000 Assault on Richard D Jones John Jones Joncs and md Frank Carrick of ot o the Jones Junes Construction company of o San Francisco three weeks seeks ago ngo whit whiton on their way WLL home when two were only driven away by b shots shotA from the revolver of ot John Jones Jonet Richard D Jones today toda bears a scar sear searon on his tight right cheek check three inches long as a memento of or the en encounter encounter encounter counter At 3 this morning an at attempt attempt attempt tempt was WIlS mado made to blow up by b dynamite a hoisting engine and a n derrick denick belonging to the Jones com corn company compan pany pan at the Utah hotel The Tho plot failed tailed because the conspirators wet I Interrupted in their work A plate on the engine was broken and a huge holo hole blown into the near the derrick No material dam damage damase damage age ase was done doneA A dastardly attempt which marks marl the climax of or a aimed t the contractors who are arc working on the tho Hotel Utah property Main and South Temple was made V shortly after aHel 3 this morning when a dynamite explosion awakened inhabitants for several blocks caused a hurry hurr call to tho Ohio police pollee station shat shattered shattered shattered windows gad and otherwise created general consternation in the vicinity V Two men from tho the evidence drove up UI to tho corner Q Z C M I T alloy aHoy In the th early carli hours horns of o the morn morD mornIng Ing III They weighted their horse at tho the junction of the thc alley ane and South Temple Carrying Carr with ith them a gunny sack heavily laden they the made mado their way to the tho high bight board fence which surrounds the building plant of or V what Is to be bo the great ent Hotel Utah Creeping In while tho the night watch watchman watchman watchman man was at another side sido of the tho prop property property erty crt they descended Into the depth hoist engines huge der dot derricks derricks ricks ticks and partially erected steel gird girders Irs ers loomed toward tho the midnight sky sk They rhe emptied their gunny SUnn sack and were carefully care Cully placing the contents when Night Watchman Henderson ambled around all oblivious of o any an anyA A danger The shadow cast east by b tho the watch watchman watchman man nian evidently alarmed them In tho the midst or of o their operations 2 They had hl lighted their fuses which were sere of the same samo sort giving them minutes to get out of oC the tho excavation excavation atlon before beCore tho the explosion came They hurried d away awa clambering up the ladders which brought them to safety safet V then picked up the weight and climbed V Into tito the tho buggy driving cast east on South V Temple TWO EXPLOSIONS t It was wa but a n moment when two ex cx explosions 1 came caine closely following each J other othel They were deafening V ing ng which aroused sleepers for fOI blocks around mound But Dut they had not been prop properly erly erl covered and tho the evident intention of or wrecking both tho tito hoisting and toppling over Oer the derrick failed tailed of o accomplishment Tho The only harm done was as a broken plate at the base of or the hoist and a great hole at the th bottom of the derrick which was too far away awa to cause any an material damage The force of or the explosion alarmed the police station over two blocks away aWny and a squad was sent up to the tho 4 acen with the conviction that either caher 4 tho the State Bank Dank of or Utah or the tIle ZIons V Savings bank had hall become the tho objective objective objective tive point of burglars Investigation proved that these premises were false falsa V and a further act in the gum hoc ho line lino discovered the attempted wrecking of ot the Hotel Utah Urah foundations and steel steelwork steelwork steelwork work POLICE RUSH TO O SCENE SOENE At t tho the police 1 station over Oer two tso blocks block away may the tho noise of or the explosions was plainly heard and anI there was Wll wa a stam atam stampede pede pelle for the scone scene It Il was thought that thai burglars were gutting getting in their work on either Ither the thc ZIons Savings bank or tho the State Bank of oC Utah Every officer V available lo was pressed pret Into service and V Chief Barlow Darlow was routed out of bed bell find and directed operations ons Investigation developed nothing in tho bank l building anti and then across acro the street Henderson the night watch watchman watchman I I man m m informed the tho police that there thero had born bern terrific explosions down In tho the pit pit from which derricks raised their V strenuous head In tho the darkness donkey engines made their presence known with aitla ah slumbering smoke anti and tall 11 steel steelL L girders projected unfinished columns V Into the lightening heavens HOLE BOLE EIGHT F E 1 DE Pieces Pl ces of or fuse fue wore round partially consumed In different parts l of or the tho V foundations and a I huge Jauge hole holc almost eight feet in depth yawned within a 1 fow feet teet of one of or the tho hoisting en engines V gines Later on several tubes tube on the hoisting engine were found bent but hut not broken brokon and a plato plate on 01 the tho sill Hill was V shattered A few wire cables were j i 5 V twisted tisted and there was waD dust scattered I over OCI all al workings and Implements Fifty Ft dollars would cover coyer tho the damage damlo and the work of or today toda was not in interrupted Interrupted Interrupted TATES STORY SORY V The Tho explosion was something ter terrific rifle said George Georgo Tato Tate who Is the carpenter carpnter foreman of o the tho James Black Masonry Contracting company of St Louis which has haH charge chare of or all al the work on un tho the Hotel Utah with the tho ex exception exception of thu tto foundation and anI structural al at Iron work and who lives Ives In tho the Templeton block directly across from the hotel property 1 know what to make lake of or It for a time thought It might be an earthquake or any Rn old thing There two of o them com corn coming comInG hag ing InG in quick succession I got on my m clothes and came carno down to tho the street Then ihen I realized that there thero was some sonic something something thing doing over oer on the tho works work I have no particular lovo love for dynamite d so 80 I kept away Thero There seemed to bo be a lock lack luk lukor lackor or of light In that that southeast corner and andas andas as ns I sized II ed It up there had been a wire cut I Investigation failed to show anything wrong with the wires wire this morning moring SUPT JONESS VERSION Richard D Jones who Is at the head of or the Jones company and who tho has had lanai hada lanaia a n very Yer big biB hand In II the tho erection o or of the thi great Sent St Francis hotel tho the Call build building buld lag ing and other huge hugo structures in the tho th earthquake city el gave his lila opinion that the explosion this morn mom till Ini was due duo to tu members of o a labor or organization 01 who were WelO We Yc are running an open shop on this Job said Mr Ir Jones Jone Wo Vo ate aro paying pa the scale scalo to Iron workers and an moro more than the scale scalo to those who earn Cn the tue money mone Wo We Vo employ everybody wh comes along tJong if I he ho Is a mechanic and we wit do not care whether he lie carries c a acard acard acard card or 01 not If I he shows that he ho Is 1 there he gets more than tItan the scale sCle We Ve haw have 50 men nien at work and anal we wo dont care calc who ho they the aro are provided they the deliver the goods HIS REASON FOR TROUBLE We 0 have had trouble in a small smal way over ever since wo we entered into this th work In Salt SnIt Lake Lkc It I all al comes of oC the big fight against the American Bridge company compan from which we got bot tho steel contract for fOI this building In jn Salt Lake We Ve have havo tho contract fur for forthe the Kearns Kerns building and a number of or others and anal an wo we have tons tong of or steel on the road exclusive of o the Hotel Utah and Kearns K rs building material We Ve tare sire here to stay uta and amI we are nr not going to let anything like a n little dynamiting stop stol us A union man can get a Job with wih us as aa well wol as a any one ono else pro provided vided he can do tho work Wg VO play no favorites and anti pay the tho money but wo we W must naust have hae the work done And that thatis is all al thero there is to It I IEN MEN EN ATTACKED Dick Dic Jones Jone as a he lie is popularly known known then told of an attempt t to do bodily harm to t himself his brother and Frank lank Carrick ft a I three weeks ago when only the tho possession pos of oi ofa oia ofa a gun n prevented a possible fatality fatal A Alvid livid scar on his hs h left let cheek was exhibited as a relic of or the nights Ho sold said that they the engagement were attacked on the way wn to t their home Eighth East Est by b two men who boarded a Wandamere streetcar after aHer them and followed after Ifer them after they thoy had ld alighted In Jn the fight which followed I In a dark corner Mr r Jones was slashed with wih a knife and the Ohio thugs were driven oft off only alter after several shots were taken ten at them thEm by b Carrick Before that time Ume the James Stewart company which has the contract for forthe ho tho foundation of or the Hotel Utah had trouble rouble by b having derrick wires cut which precipitated tie the t e whole structure to the tle ground and nd caused an es cs estimated loss Joss of or 1000 The contracts on tho the Utah ate are vested estel In the James Stewart company com pan who have the foundations the Jones company who have havo the structural steel steelwork steelwork steelwork work and the tho James Black Masonry and Contract company com pan of St Louis Luis who have all al the building with the above aboc ex and that of or the fur tur furnishings furnishings The Thc property of or the Hotel Utah is isnow isnow isnow now patrolled by b day da and night watch watchmen watchmen watchmen men and there are arc special detectives on the Job outside of ot these thee The police department Is exerting itself In ovary every ever way WI to trace tho the perpetrators of or the latest outrage UNION LEADERS LEADERS STATEMENTS John Munsey business agent of oC the Structural Iron Workers union was ws much touch disturbed over the occurrence Tho ho union Is not in any way account accountable accountable accountable able for anything like this he hc said The union stand for It and it is against any an of or our 01 tenets Wo We do donot donut donot not nut believe beleve In practises of oC that sort and If affiliated with wih It Is discovered discovered discovered ered he will wi no ito longer lon er be bo a member of our body bod Vo believe beleve In unionism jut but we se believe in settling disputes In a asane asano sane satio way wa waI I understand that the Jones people are aro r but agents of oC the American Bridge company compan who have havo always been unfair I to o organized labor Jones has hus a ti splendid reputation In San Francisco and has been a friend of oC union labor But It seems that he lie Is other lIven Even at that we would not countenance countenance ance ante for a minute any an overt acts of or violence V |