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Show BIG BLOWOUT Air Pressure Blows Tank Through Shop Monday afternoon about 3 the air pressure tank at the Oscar Kelly repair shop blew up with a roar and hurtled through the air thirty feet. It bashed a gasoline tank on a tractor on its way and crashed into the north wall. The explosion shook the business houses of Dr. Stains, J. W. Swalberg and Joe Gordon, who ran out and to the shop to see what was left of it. Clarence Nevius, at his shop 2 blocks away across country, thot someone was blastnig with dynamite. dyna-mite. Glass in every frame in the building, and glass and frames from three windows, blew in, not out, the shop. The suction of air was so great that every piece of glass was sucked into the shop. None fell outside. Three men were working in the shop at the time on a large truck. Paul Whicker was under the truck, Adrian Alldedge on the far side of it in the corner, and Jimmie Morris was on the fender on the side toward to-ward the tank. None was hurt. All-dredge All-dredge had just crossed in front of the tank and returned to the southwest south-west corner of the shop when the tank blew up. Ordinarily there are a number of men in and around the shop. If that had been so Monday someone some-one would have been hurt. A new pick handle leaning near the tank was blown to splinters and sheared off short. The hoist was wrecked. Damages of $200 or more were estimated. It was reported re-ported that the automatic switch failed to shut off, causing the explosion. ex-plosion. Freda Whicker had pust gone to the shop to pick up their car which was parked alongside. She went up to the door intending to tell Paul and then decided she would tell i later when she drove away. She i had -just taken two steps away I from the door when the tank blew up. Had she gone through the door the tank would have hit her. After the noise died down, and she tried to get in, the door would not open, as the tank was wedged back of it. |