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Show President Monson Makes Report -' on Dynamiting . Salt Lako, Feb. 4. President W. P. Monson of the Eastern States mh-slon mh-slon Mirfs written tho First Presidency regarding tho recent dynamiting of tho Mormon chripol at Buck Valley, Pcim,, on January 20. According to tho letter President Monson went to tho sceno of tho disaster In company with Prcst. McDonald or tho West Pennsylvania conferences arriving nt Buck Valloy, January 2G. Ho ro-ports ro-ports that tho indignation of tho entire en-tire community seems to bo nrouscd by tho notion and it formed at tho time of his arrival the principal topic top-ic of conversation In the town. Prcst. Monson describes tho ruins of tho church ns presenting tho nppenranre of tho contents of a toothpick factory rather than a building, zinc shingles being scattered all over the premlpes nnd fragments of flooring no Inrger than two Inches wldo and six incites long being found 180 foot away. It appears tho perpetrators entered tho basement In tho rear of tho structure struc-ture and must havo p'need not less than 40 sticks of giant powder under an 8 by 8 oak beam floor. Tho explosion explo-sion wrecked the concrcto foundation on either sldo and tho sill under which tho chargo was placed was "blown through tho building and was found n considerable dlstanco from the foundation with about flvo feet of Its length crushed. The broken sl'ls nt tho foundation caused the tonf to fall. Thu explosion was heard twolvo miles away. According to Prcst. Monson mU-slouarlcs mU-slouarlcs secured two . bloodhounds from Cumberland, but after about half a ml'o tho scent wns lost In tho mlddlo of tho road It being tho belief of tho peoplo In th ovlcnlty that tho perpetrators wero carried a ay in a vehicle and that they nro at prennt llvlngo nly a few miles south of tho church.. Much sympathy sympa-thy has-been aroused for ho Mor-monn Mor-monn in tho va'ley wo hav 'cfn 20 ycarB without a placo of worship and many havo offered their aid In tho reconstruction of tho church. Tho building was insured for $000 and It is thought tho Insuranco company will mnko a srttlomcnt. About 200 reward has been offored for Infrrma-Hon Infrrma-Hon leading to tho arrest of the offenders of-fenders . t A . |