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Show Find Prevents Big Explosion I Rock Spring. Wyo. Possible disaster j was averted hero by an alert employee j of the Union Pacific railway. He found 300 dynamite sticks and 500 caps heaped in a pile on the side track j leading to what is known as No. 8 ! mine north of Rock Springs. The discovery dis-covery was made just in time to stop a short freight train which was on its way to the mine to deliver a string of empty gondolas, including one car of dynamite, and the dynamite car was at the fro-it end of the train. The tr.it. was cleared and county and city ! officials notified. Later it was discovered discov-ered that two powder houses at No. 8 camp had been entered some time in the night and the caps and dynamite stolen. The officers followed the tracks of two men plainly seen along the right of way. but later they wer lost in the brush of a small canvoa. |