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Show A NARROW ESCAPE. The New Tabernacle the Scene of an Explosion. Thos. E.Daniels Comes Within With-in an Ace of Losing His Life. ' What came very near being the worst disaster ever experienced in Provo occurred yesterday morning about 11 o'clock, when the t;ik:t! Tabernacle narrowly escaped destruction destruc-tion by lire. The readers of The Dispatch Dis-patch have been made acquainted with the fact that for nearly a week past Mr. T. E. Daniels, Jr.. the electrician of the Prot . olen Mills, has been engaged in tlie u oik of connecting con-necting the Tabernacle witi. the electric light. It was while doing this work yesterday that he had a narrow-escape narrow-escape from meeting serious if not fatal injuries'. He was in the east end of the building, between the ceding and the roof, and was using a gasoline blowpipe in making the necessary connections con-nections with the wu'e. There was about half a gallon of gasoline in the kettle at the time, which was discovered dis-covered to be leaking. All of a sudd; n a flaiae shot av.y up in the roof, at d the entire apparatus caught on l'.re. Mr. Daniels readily saw that a few seconds would elapse before it would explode, aud knowing that he would never get out of the b'lilding alive if this happened, and that th building was in danger, he seized the whole business and threw it out of the north j I window. It had not lit on the ground j three or four seconds before it exploded ex-ploded with a fearful noise. M;; Daniels had his eyebro.vs and moustache mous-tache badly scorched and his face burnt. He" feels lucky to escape with his life. |
