Show ONE KilLED AND OTHERS FATALLY VV 4 INJURED AT HIGHLAND BOY SMELTER V Damp in Big Converter Cause Causes I V V V Explosion n of Frightful Violence V BURNED IN HOT METAL V V V Flesh Scared With 1 Fluid Several Sc C CI I Workmen III in the tho V V V V Hospital Murray V V killed and ami two other Ono Olio ina man wa was V the time door In lit V noW lyn lying at al deaths death's V V V V Murray hospital as a n. result of or an e ex cx- one of the thc lug big conveners con in fri one kr- kr V J V with molten metal at ut the Highland High g V j land J nil Buy Boy n smelter smeller near Murray earl carl The Tho lon was yesterday morning mO V V V V from fromi V V V V ii h by pouring the tho hot metal c. c the converter con V of the furnaces into Inlo i beer V had V V after sonic some damp slag V V thrown nto It H. V V dead den V The rhe IV cV VV V V V V Oscar age go 3 37 living near V V V V V V smelter Vj V Fatally Injured t V Thomas Fox of Union of Murray Oscar OscRr Dud cud Tripp V V Others who vho were burned painfully Slim Vii Wil hut but not fa fatally were tV V V Pants lams Alma Alma- Matthews Scott BIln Bring Bring- V Bringhurst t Is 18 V V hurst hUlSt ant Fred Davis l V still at the tho Murray hospital suffering r from rein burns on the tho body but will re ye- ye cover The Time othel m men IC taken talan to toV V V V V V tho hospital but bUl left after receiving y V V j medical attention V V Dr Dl Lynch hO hospital 1 physician said J. J V last night ht that he ftc did ld not nol expect Fox V V 10 live twelve hours and that there V V V V waa as little 1010 of the recovery recover Lot of V V V V a nephew of or Oscar V V V Walden was as taken et to lo the hospital hut hutt was so badly burned that he died at nt 0 I t t V Vt o'clock yesterday morning seven the accident V V V hours after V V. f V V Th The way one of the worst n. n V V thai that has has occurred at the Highland V V V V nO flo Boy Some damp slag slag- had hadS S V V been bean picked up from the and V V V tossed into the converter before It was V V V V placed in the tIme last Jast pit to the tho west The V big converter was lowered Into the V V. V 1 V pit PIL the north furnace opened and the V 5 V matte of or molten metal ran down V V V V through h the tho narrow trough and In lute o I V h the bl big receptacle covering the damp amp V r S. S k V material in fn the bottom botton V J 7 S V V The converter was filled filed as full as V V desired and just as ns the gang of or men I I V V V took their thell positions In front of the V r V V furnace Ilace to chalk up the thc hole hoJe and V V V V V V stop the time How flow o of metal the thc molt molten n V. V IV V mass In the converter suddenly bulged If forth and eo covered red the time seven men In j f front of or it ft It came camo so sud suddenly that q f Vt V n none ne could escape the rain ruin of fiery 4 1 S It L V Wahlen Gets Brunt H t V S A f i- i Wahlen alden was 12 standing standing- nearest t the V Jill P pl pit und it was he that took tool the fo of that gm great eat mass o of metal motul that V V r V V V from flom tho the converter con He lie was wn V i V VS V V knocked down omm b by the time force and andi i V weight of rf f the m metal taJ and find his body Ift r. r V V V covered u by it ii Most lost of the other men VI 1 V V. V jI t V V were tl al also o Moored an and before they V f r V V could arise arle their theil ho bodies les had hac h been 11 cov covered mv V V 0 V eyed ered with the metal inflicting the theS ther S r 1 1 V wounds Tho Time force of the explosion VV VI was so o great that one side Ide of the pit Mi J.- J. Ir fV V V was was broken en and nd metal was Wa thrown V 1 V more than firt fifty feet feel t of oC It lash lash- dR r V V V Ing against a woo wooden platform near neuI V k d the ceiling of oC tho the west vest end and nearly I 1 starting a conflagration rite Tho men I V V 55 V V sta standing in front of the open mouth V V I V V o of the converter were a at tho the mercy V V of or tho the fJ fluid J 4 I I l. l I. I Slim to lo the I IJ Hc Re 4 l V The fite furnace had J V not been stopped V 4 V L V X up UI before the explosion an and was still t I r. r V V V milting the rc led si stream i cam when Slim I V J Williams who lio had not been hurt hurl by U V V c V th tho explosion Jumped into the path of S V V the tIme vain mitt of metal I grabbed the stoker I S 'S V V lugged up the hole in the thc CurI fur Cur 1 V V V IH nace V Cc All the Mime lar largo large lumps of ot V S V V V VV metal splashed against t him but bul he lue I V V V V dill did not try tiT to c until time the holce hole holc e V V the lie fluid was nu escaping V V V V 5 1111 been 1 stopped slopped up Then he lie jumped jump JJ V ed 11 V Into Inlo lime zone one where livid sparks sharks V V V S V were V were nut not splashing on UIl ui the thc he ground roun mil hut j I 4 V V before his head and bak baic i V V had bec been n blistered h by ly the thc Vu V V metal eV V G GnS il I ills to Co Horror V The hui hot fumes tUI and aud ga I. s were In Inhaled V lu haled U by the llio men and amI this this- added toV to II V V the time bin 1 makes maleN their KUI MUI V J. J V V V vival 1 doubtful Fox Fux and Tripp S i V V I VV though Knocked lcJ to lo thI the ground ruun h by l' th tin V V V V shock hoch of the explosion Were able V V V V to tu get g-et out of the Glare of time tho furnace I V V V V V 7 before e they lucy were too luo weak and cx- cx huu hausted ted Wahlen when h ho w wo i V V V thrown to the ground ground- was knocked V V unconscious lie He regained hi his hIM feet in inV V V V 1 J short OI order CI but knew nothing of or what y P V V V ho was waN doing Instead of ot trying to 10 V he lit ran about in lii the rain ain of V V metal His Ills clothes call caught ht fire ami anil i ti V burned bunted on him as ho he ran ron back and V forth in front of t the open upen mouth of I tho converter He lie presented a terrifying terri tot-ri- V t X XI I V fill spectacle to tu tIme the smeller hands t a i V the they stood there calling to tu luau him to i V lomo ava away the J ame but he heS S 5 t l not hear them hen Finally exhausted ex ox- V t 1 t V I V hausted tc he lie fell Cell to the ground ju Just Justus t. t V I. I U us helping hun K grabbed him aol t S V V V J V pulled him out of the m moss mass of molten JI f V V V metal eu on the hoer r Every er bit of cr V rt U I clothing ng w waa as burned from hi him boll bd body V i VS i V V nothing remaining but bu his collar colinI an and 4 V V shoes ho s The bod body was waa burned terribly V and t as the tho pain V S V grew more Intense in VV i the tho flesh the spark of life lIe was ras growS grow grow- V S V V V V J log ing cooler I V Taken to I Hospital V V l A AH As soon UK as Jo 1 nil of or the InI In In- In I V uncut men luken In iii vehicles ll to toS tott S 1 V tt s' s 7 the Uw ho hospital where Drum Drs p. p S V V j Lynch h aunt and Odi 1 t I 6 Ot rendered d valuable u u. assistance Jt it V V WOK was seep seen ut lit the outset et that Wahlen V V V could nut not survive sUl more than unit a few ow V V V hours V V A All i II day ay yesterday esterday a string of rc relatives rela rota- lat la- la V t tives lI and hlen friends s visited the hospital inquiring about their lo loved loel el ones onea who uvil had hind suffered In the explosion Ih The funeral of oC Oscar Wahlen will willbe V b be held Sun Sunday n afternoon at 2 o'clock from rom omit tIme the Granite Gu lal e meeting house wl with 1 burial In the South SunlIt Cottonwood Colton cemetery When hei hen death canto came the thO bOil body of Whalen was removed Id d from the hospital to lo Bt Banks Banks' s' s undertaking es os- V Wahlen aiden V was 3 37 years old and leaves a n wife Lizzie Wahlen rahlen and eight children as follows Charles Leona Lcona Alvin ln Katy at Hazel V Levon on Everett E and amI f Evalino limo tho eldest eld- eld est cst of or whom Is only fourteen yea years old Makes s Statement Manager cr R. R H. H Channing- Channing of ot th tIme the Utah Consolidated Mining co company the operators of the lie Highland UI Boy smelters smellers received t of the accident acci nod dent yesterday from the officials In sm smelter and authorized the time following followingS I S statement ta I eni en t j I The Tho accident happened at al o'clock I this morning and was caused from nn an overflow O of matte it In one of oC the rover rover- furnaces furnaces- probably caused b bythe by the presence pi-osIce nCe of or some sonn damp material In the furnace This occurs h y at th the smelters smellers though thought not in su h h serious volume as happened this morning It was very unfortunate I that some ome of tho the men mon were neat near the tho furnace at the time lime otherwise little damage c would have been done I do donot donot donot not think that In Hn any respect the accident accident acci- acci dent lent was caus caused d by carelessness on the ho part of the thc neither do ho doI hoI j I think the apparatus was defective V VIt tt It t appears appeals to have be been n unavoidable unavoidable 1 In n every elT respect and I cannot i that blame attaches to anyone An Amu investigation cUr has hal been ordered by competent men uncut and their report will be made mado to mc me tomorrow At that time tile tHc exact cause causo of the tho I able accident will be ho positively known I hut I think It will show Just what T r I have c stat stated cd I I |