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Show ENGINE ROPE BREAKS. Havoc at Utah Light & Power Company's Com-pany's Plant. The Utah Light & Power company's plant back of the Atlas block was in great danger for a few moments last night. One of the big engines, the largest larg-est in the place, was for a few moments tied up with a rope so that had it not been for the quick work of the night engineer, a brave young man who refused re-fused to give his name, much damage might have been sustained. The large engine wmcn is in me south part of the building had not b?en running for several days. It is used to run the dynamo which furnishes electricity elec-tricity for the street cars. It was. however, started up last night, and it had not been running long before the rope which connects the twenty-foot drive wheel and the shaft wheel, some thirty feet away, broke. For a few sec-I sec-I onds pandemonium reigned. The rope I is wound about these wheels in twenty-seven twenty-seven coils, and is about a half mile ! long. I Rope flew in all directions. It wound itself about the drive wheel and about the shaft wheel. It struck the ceiling and the floor. Part of it hit the dynamo and tore off two of the brushes from it. That caused a great disturbance of the electricity, and great lights shot up into the sky till persons outside who saw it thought that a fire and explosion ex-plosion had occurred. The fireman was standing in the door which leads to the furnace room when the first break occurred. He darted back to the furnaces. When the night engineer saw what had happened he rushed in amid the flying and swirling rope and shut off the steam. Then the big wheel which was bound up with rope came to a very quick stop. There was not p. great deal of damage done, and it will not interfere with the running run-ning of the plant. |