Show f s£5 '& s ipp- Ibe Salt Lake Tribune Tuesday August 14 1058 ¥ Itobert F Alklre Salt Lake Tribune reporter John Hurst Asso iafed Press and Earl - Conrad Tribune photographer Montieelio explosion for at airport emplane coverage Witness Reports Roof Raised But Came On Explosion Details Photos Cot respondents staff writers and photographers of The Salt Lake Tribune were on the scene in Montieelio and at Cbitez Colo Monday night to cover the tragic story of the explosion which killed 13 and Injured approximately 40 Again gi ciedited sith preventing further Injuriea Here he tell hat he Steve Hazelwood As Told to The Salt Lake Trjbune MONTICELLO San Juan County Aug 13— I was one of the first to reach the Lariat Cafe after the explosion It was a mess I was about a block and a half away when I heard it I drove right over there parked my pickup truck and tan to the cafe To handle was afraid someone would 1'ght a cigarette and blow the place up all over again so I ran back to the truck and got a wi ench I W'as able to turn the gas off before many persons arrived That blast seemed to shatter the building like a chick bursting out of an egg shell in a gieat big huriy IT IOOKFD like the fiont with the big glass window popped out ftrst It was thrown clean across the street and blocked traffic for a while The roof raised up but it rame straight down again Ail four sides were flattened in all diiections There was some screaming and moaning and some people were wandering around in a daze like they didn't know what bit them chores Now-fo- r fall enrollment PETER RABBIT Play School V MORNING Deiehpnunt Center Srr5ON5 ONLY Sepnrntp Groups 'JRTnY AND £ KINDI F5ACTrN TPanuroriaMon A Tr Rrach ir Phon OR 7 6’ Earl the Conrad V - 1 in the explosion Monday Cafe in Montieelio Blew Out Cafe’s Walls To Cortez Colo where many of Ihe dead and miuied were taken went George A Soiensen Tnbune in another plane Infoimation and photographs supplied by The Tnbune through its veteran crew was the basis for nationwide supplied by the Associated Press all the bandages and other medical equipment that Grand County Hospital could spaie The cafe site was not just leveled The blast left a gaping hole Mirrounded by pieces of stone and block from which the structure was built icpojter-photograph- cov-eiag- e Explosion Kills thought the 14 in Cafe al Monlieello tluoughattempts Rush-IIou- i' Anguished relatives of perto have been in the sons cafe prodded heartbrokenly rubble after fruit to locate them in loss the teeming hospital Some vicContinued from Page One Kveiy available station wagon tims were found under pieces truck and ambulance in of the blasted roof 'pitkup was still coming from tt He the pd jnt0 tfrv nrpa was to his back a rushed truck got )rp t0 ake thp ABOl’T 300 persons volun-teeiehQS rpd wicnch and turned off the gas almost immediately to dopitals Repents from Montieelio in blood nate for the injured The explosion left a hole 'riicatcd that at least 25 inurcd was flown in from riasma being to 20 30 feet deep in the had been admitted to the hospi from Gtand Junction and Salt Lake of where center the cafe $50000 tal in that city Other injured Citv if was reported were to be bunding had stood Hundreds of people in this 300 Mote than flown to the hospital in Cortez persons came uranium mining and butgeoning to the small Montieelio Hospital and some to Salt Lake City town pressed in towaid milling Late Mondav rescue workers0 offer blood for transfusions the two focal points — the gaping still were probing the debris for hole that was the Lariat and the other victims hospital Traffic became snarled on U S 160 whic h leads to Dove SOME BODIES were found Creek on which the cafe was under the roof It collapsed onto At least six of the injured located the cinder and rock rubble All the windows in Hail s Til were in the Cortez Memorial angle Molel across the street Hospital Most of them sufweie broken It was not known fered burns on the face and if any gupsts weie injured jhands A 13th victim reportedly The cafe was owned by Mr idled en loute to the hospital and Mrs Harold Ramsdell Mis Four critically injured were Ft anas M (Fian) Uuy IS Ranwdell was injuied in the Gown to the Grand Junction 48013th Ave Salt Lake City blast Colo hospital shoilly after the was one of the occupants of a The explosion rocked this blast cafe in Montieelio which was the town as residents were eating Cororner Snvder said that1 scene of a devastating gas ex ciowds IhPir supper Laige jirpe other injured flown to plosion Monday quukly gathered at the disaster Gi and Junction were in serious His mother Mrs Fiancis L scene and aided in removal of condition Most were suffering Urry same address said she victims from concussions had been notified by the Utah Cortez the Episcopal rowpr and A POIH fc roirtnn was set up Light Co that ITarr was ronveited into an was an of the cafe at around the disaster scene shmt jChuirh occupant in the time of the blast but that lv after Hip blast Traffic on cmeigency hospital Twenty juied weie treated theie he was not injured U S 160 w as kept mov ing Automobiles weie used to The youth who was gtsdu light Montuello's small aitport ated p year ago from West High so it could be used bv light School had gone to Montieelio planes carrying injured to hos only Monday morning as a sur emerin pitals and bringing vcyor for UPAL Co He had gency supplies been wot king summer pmploy A IOf HUFF H IiOdestar plane ment with the power Aim prp owned by Chailes A Steen paratory 1o entering the Uni Moab uiannim millionaue was versify of Utah th’s fall se I 'i ly aaul dispatched to Moab on orders mestei Mi of Mr Steen to assist in bring 1 ing the injured out to hospitals in the southeastern Utah south Western Colorado area Intm&'zY STJ0SIPH Just last week Montieelio be- —in tire flavor ASPIRIN came the first town in Utah to dotage Special pureorangt res chiisrw receive gas from the new high Ized flavor accural lie San being constructed Juan Basin in New Pacific Northwest L ou into Reno on sny oi Arwrn An rtri' famous “Champgnt Flighty AND IF YOU bring yor ticket nub n II houn to Mtroldc Gub'i Fell ith (7ih Floor) you'll b gentrovu ebtmpegn our guf sorkfii! The Atr National Guaid was calk'd upon to supply bans portation for the craft by Capt Stewait M Giegoiy of Hill Field as soon as officials at Hill detei mined they had no ciaft small enough to use the Month ello strip liut the Parific Northwest plane left first with the plasma Biverlou Father Among Viet inis Salt Lake County sheiiffs deputies Monday night notified Mrs Henry Gotman Riverton of the death of her husband in the gas explosion at Montieelio Deputies said word of the trag edy in the family caused Mis to suffer extreme Gorman shock A physician was called to the home to attend the gitef sti token woman Mr Gorman 30 was a heavy Jf you hove no mci-me you mo re nt StMGER Pu tec $1 wteMy limilmt lime inly HAROLDS Reno V- d fid u iltioe iOUTH - Adjutl and Chock Balance Fabric-handlin- Entire W"Da-lint- ” Nw BeU an ordinary hair spray - 47 lltb UIT tea onn SOUTH STATf HU 4 SJ4J 1 ! hair your trains uhile it sets pincurls trains uhile it holas your ware Only Helene Curtis Spray Net has the amazing “control” ingredient- -l rains your curls to stay springy and bouncy hold your Any hair spray will set your pincurls wave in plsca But with Helena Curtis SPRAY NET there’s t wonderful plus: graduilly excitingly your hair gets the habit of curling Your waves are trained to remember their place from i shampoo to shampoo t NEW! euwr reettoMT II Mm Ha axty D LIMITfO TIME OKU rtfillabl aeroiol teeiieot purscspray has g Thread-han- d and Bobbin Winder to NOW Helene Curtis Spray Net' actually trams ll-- Rmg (if need or MUIAY HI cf) CENTER SINGER SEWING 4 Besides his widow he Is survived by three sons Melvin and RonLynn Gorman Riverton ald Gorman Montrose Colo a daughter Frances Goiman Riverton and two stepdaughtei s Mts Shit lev Newman Itivei-toand Mis Margaret Jensen ’Specially in hot humid weather you ne$d more than uvn mechaniue lingassembfy Motor V- - Oil onttro Machtno and lubricate tf nacettary for sola V- - Ini poet Motor ond chock wiring intulofio Needlrt Pltfi o fre tupply of 01 W” fac-lot- mechanic for Rumpsion Con stiuction Co woiking on the highway near Bluff Murray Mr Ricketts OV FRIDAY said his engtnoeis reported that tests and measuiements at the meter gate outside the city limits of Montieelio showed that s all pressures and all safety in connection with deiivety of the gas to the distributor company weie noimal Fish Noithwest Constiuetois aie buildeis of the tegional transmission system of Pacific Noithwest rijveline Coip This tiansmission f it m does not distribute natuial gas in any com munity along its lines It only sells natural gas to companies whit h distt tbute the fuel to cus 19c J12S phn tax mockantc d your homo and SPECIAL a SINGER'-trome- Monday night that gas was delivered for the first time to Montieelio Utah fiont lines of the Pacific Northwest Pipeline Cot p on Ft iday at 6 p m I Jr said that Pacific Northwest had a contract wuth Utah Gas Sen ice Co distributors of natural gas in Montieelio jured rruu iso suets son NOW ONLY Richard D Ricketts vice presi- tomers in corporate! cities and dent Fish Northwest Construc- towns tors Inc said in Poitland Ore of 32 pints of hlood plasma assembled by the Salt Lake County Chapter American Red Ctovs was Montieelio late Monday by a plane of the flown to stiic-kePacific Noithwest Pipeline Co Emil E Hendcison chapter chairman said the request for the plasma had come from Keith Walker Red Ctosa At the time Mr Walker representative in Montieelio railed he said 10 persons were dead and ‘at least 10’ In- doaage Try it! World's Largest Sdrs Agurai For Duldrca Gef QfiLThu A RENTAL Death and Injury to acores resulted when gas exploded In a rate at Montieelio shown on map during dinner hour Monday Tho rafa was constructed of rock and cinder block materials In A consignment nmin McMUd Value I Wusphoio front of the draped in blankets Juan Hospital pending ldentlfh atlon SL Man Escapes 50 i Witness Continued from Taee One Regular $6 fi SL Red Cross Gas Firm Official Says Firm Delivered Blast’s Force Speed Plasma to Monlieello First Montieelio Gas Friday Ee picture taking and transmitting veteran Tribune lensnvan also pressute line from the San Mexico to the t ibur Lariat the v ! Injury in Blast Register A ChtlA night at boarded the plane I found I Bodies of victims And in a matter of minutes after the magnitude of the tragedy was known Robert F Alkire Tribune staff writer whose reporting of the recent Giand Canyon air tragpdy won national acclaim was aboard a plane headed for Montieelio He was accompanied by John Hurst Associated Press staff writer in the Salt Lake City bureau They traveled in a specially chaitered plane aw and did the gas pipe win broken off next to the salve end the gas was whooshing out full force sssfgg From Moab Ton Robinson correspondent rushed the approximately SO miles to Montieelio for on (he spot word and picture coverage Not Fdlfnr ipve HH7ltsooi hi drninc near ihs laiiat ( aft Hm hrn th occurred explosion Quick action In cutting off the By I- f SfW AW SOUTH MAIN C T?0) IM 1 SZ Only Halen Fill it yourself Curtis SPRAY Toka PurveSproy glamorous holdv day of sproys ot NIT it with in block it! 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