Show EXPLOSION IN A CAR the westbound B R G W passenger train was late february 26 25 and as several persons appeared at the depot at am to make the trip to ogden the company arranged for a special which was made up in about half an hour it consisted of the locomotive a baggage car and one new passenger coash all broad gauge the car has been run but once or twice before it was provided with a steam heater which took up about feet of space and was about five feet high this apparatus is usually sufficient to make mache the cars comfortably warm but the weather being very cold several of the passengers took their seats close to the heater beater As soon as all was ready the train milled ailed out for the city on the areber weber but it had gone scarcely a hundred when those who were watching it saw a cloud of if steam rise from the endom end of the passenger r cir c r and pieces of the coach flying in every direction immediately there was a dull heavy report and it was evident that an explosion of some nature had occurred occur reil the train stopped and as the I 1 1 y stand st anderk erb hurried d up u p the passengers pas engers clambered out of the car one of the first to get out was mr 6 hardey of new york he was closely follow ea by about ten others others one aged lady being among the number mr hardey was injured somewhat but hid had a clear conception of what had occurred he stated that he was sitting two seats fro croaa the heater there being one mad maria seat nearer when the explosion took place and he was enveloped in smoke and cinders which were still clinging to his bis face and clothes A piece of the flying materials struck him on the back of the head tearing a hole through his hat and raising a lump jump on his bis cranium A liard hard piece of something hit bit him on his left hip causing him to limp jtb other e r pieces tore holes through throng h his ove overcoat but he escaped with about a dozen scratches on his head and face from which the blood oozed A nother commercial man received sonae some injuries he had WO two cuts cute on the back of the head his clothing was punctured in several places and he was badly shaken up rhe fhe third person injured was a gentleman about 60 50 years of age who had a gash across his forehead a cut on I 1 his bis chin and some minor bruises when the explosion happened the top of the heater tore a large hole through the roof of the car broke all of the glass scattered pieces of wood iron and coals in every direction and filled the car with steam creating quite a panic when quiet was regained the train was run back t to the station and surgeons sent for to attend the wounded another car was put on we the train and the rest of the passengers continued their trip the loss to the railway company will be not less than 1000 the cause of the accident was tee ice in the boiler of the heater water had been left in and the frosty night had bad converted it into a solid then afire a fire was started and as the steam generated in the bottom of the boiler could not escape the explosion followed this incident should serve as aa a warning I 1 o rail railway way men that even safety steam heaters when not pro properly parly attended to may become very unsafe had the accident happened two minutes earlier or the passengers who had been standing around the heater remained that much longer the probability babi lity is that some one would have been killed |