Show IRE AT SALT LAKE GITY i 11 UTAH OIL REFINING COMPANY SCENE OF FIRE WHICH HEAVENS FOR MILES A IV lightning strikes tank causing severs severe property loss losa and scatters death in heroic twenty two hour battle with flames salt lake two to lend two are said lo 10 L lie be lying filing lint anil forty six were injured four seriously in the hie fire tit at the plant ot of the ho uenh oil refining company in the northwest section of tile tho elty city which started tit nt 0 saturday Satu iday night and which was not placed under control until sunday afternoon damage to the plant of the company Is 14 estimated by its officials tit it between and tito deal dead fire walter Ro romey jr 10 19 years of ago son of walter of the fairmont nani ti nent s and mrs mary nilen dark clark billner find and george 11 II 10 years 5 ears old son of mr tint and sirs ceorge 7 lairrabee west seventh south street both men met death when nhen it sheet of flame which preceded an explosion of tile the contents of a tank of gasoline distillate enveloped them giving neither a chance to escape rommey and barrabee met thedr death while they were working between the two largest tanks on the company property tito southernmost of the lie two large tanks nry a mass of red name flame still and black smoke and every effort was being center centered etl upon throw throwing inc streams of water on the large tank to the north which was tit at the time of the explosion nearly emptied of its ita contents with at least twenty others othera who ho hall had been fighting the flames all night they found themselves in tha th sump which surrounded the tank Ila hauling on a heavy hose which carried carried a force of water sufficient to fell a man tit at a distance of more than feet they crawled down into the sump and beann to play streams of water upon the threatened tank both were working in opposite sections of the sump intent upon the tha flames and preventing their spread then came the flash of 0 the explosion ll 11 omney according to others who lial had been working by his side was engulfed in flames lie ke had bad no cliance chanco to escape and tell fell back into the sump already filed by water anter when his body was found sunday there was wn every indication that flint he be hall had 4 I 1 A ysa death by scalding and drowning as tile the water in the sump was ort extremely remely hot bot 4 larrabee ji la in the same sump northwesterly from romney apparently felt the lie full force of tho the sheet of flame which preceded the explosion only his skeleton was recovered and identification by his father was established only by bits of clothing that had been taken from the body by those who rescued it and by the fragments of a cap his father recognized zed at the morgue the or fattier father also was able to lo make partial identification because of he size of tho the charred remains larrabees Larra bees body was not in the bergal sump when found but just west of oc the like dike which makes tile the sump that ho he was in water to his waist at the time of the explosion is plainly trill inal caged flesh was clinging to the tha bones below tile the waistline but the tha upper part of the corpse was waa en tirley free diee of flesh it was in this same section seco vint that maor afa or tat late 0 sunday afternoon picked up ft a all skin bone that physic physicians lans say ta la that of n hin human flan and the finding of which loa fo 0 o the theory that the death toll will be more lhnn two the bone fig that of a human according to dr J J calligan gaille an who said last night that nn an examination showed that it had only recently been filled with blood the fire burned fiercely for awen ty two hours during saturday night firemen in confining the tha flames to tho the wooden tp top tank which had been struck by lightning however the flames spread to another 2 gallon container a short dis ance tance away which had been partly As the fire reached this tank lank it exploded and oil poured forth to be licked up by tho flames flame and sintered with nl arming rapidity the flames which spread from the large tank after the explosion sunday morning a frame cottage located east cast of the plant and facing north third west street in leys less than an hour the small structure had find burned down completely and only n fow few shouldering rafters and scat scattered terM bricks from the foundation were left to mark tile site the house was owned by the company and rented by an employee the moved out ut en call ir in the my hy and 1 the loss wa ti mated nt |