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Show ATTEMPT MADE 10 I BLW UP WATER ' I . .. ' SYSTEM W OGDEN I Bomb Discovered at 8:30 Last Evening by W atct man at the City Reservoir Six Sticks of Giant I Powder With Fuse Attached, Placed Near Water Main Horse Tracks Indicate 1 Dynamiter Had Ridden to Scene. The finding of a dynamite bomb onj the largo water main which supplies the city reservoirs on the east bonch of Ogden lAst night caused intense excitement, ex-citement, in the city and gave reason for the belief, expressed by many persons, per-sons, that an agent of a foreign government gov-ernment is working in Ogden. The police have' been on the case since 8 30 last evening and are following several clues which they hope will not be fruitless, but so far no arrests have been made. The opinion of several people that the bomb was placed on the water main in an effort to stir up the guards at the reservoir and create some excitement ex-citement was voiced this morning by a prominent citizen of Ogden. who telephoned The Standard offico that he had reason to believe the affair to be a joke. These two theories have been advanced. Many believe that it is Im-' Im-' probable a joker would run the risk of Ihoino. nniifrhi tn siip.h .1 dastardly act for the sake of a prank. When Bomb Was Found The bomb was .found by Louis Cun: ningham. tho night -watchman'-at the reservoirs, on the thirty-six-inch water main which supplies the two reservoirs reser-voirs and the city's entire water supply, sup-ply, as he was making one of his regular reg-ular rounds early last evening. It was so placed that In exploding it would have wrecked completely the huge pipe and thus would have cut off tho city's entire water supply. Excavation Excava-tion for repair work on this particular section of the pipe had partially exposed ex-posed it and the bomb was within two 'inches of the top of the pipe. The person who placed it had scooped out a slight hollow under the fence on tho northeast side of the reservoir in order or-der to slide the bomb under and onto the pipe. Two feet of the four-foot fuse had been burned. The bomb was rudely but effectively constructed, being made with six sticks of- No. 2 giant powder, containing, contain-ing, according to O. H. Mohlman, powder pow-der man for the city, a 40 per cent charge of "nitroglycerin. The sticks were bound together and a four-foot piece of fuse fastened to the center stick with a fulminating cap. The powder was inclosed in an ordinary double paper bag with the fuse leading lead-ing from the sack. Tho officers attribute at-tribute tho fact that the bomb did not explode to a slight crimp in the fuse. Evidently the twist had been taken out and the powder thus disturbed made it burn unevenly. W As soon as Cunningham found the MM bomb he summoned persons who- re-side re-side in the vicinity to guard tho spot while he went to a telephone and in-formed in-formed Commissioner Miles L. Jones W of his discovery. The city commission was in session, and as soon as the commissioners heard tho startling news they decided to go in person to IH the scene and make an investigation. IH Mayor. Heywood, Commissioner Jones, Chief Browning and Sergeant Mohl-man, Mohl-man, with newspaper men, were in tho M party, which left tho city hall In an automobile driven by Police Chauffeur jH Johns. Trapks of a horse within a fow feet U of the place where the dynamiter worked, scooping out a hole under tho W fence to Insert the bomb, lead the po-lice po-lice to believe that the maker of tho bomb rode to the reservoir horseback and dismounted within a few feet of jH the fence. Guards' have been placed Uih5i,tLPJL.t Ihe tracks shall not be disturbed pending a more complete investigation. Commissioner Jones said today that tho bomb was so located that, in c-plodlng. c-plodlng. it would have wrecked the thirty-six-inch pipe and tho water thus liberated would probably have washed down the north side of the reservoir JW bank and taken the structure conv pletely away The water supply would have to be turned off In Coldwater canyon, and before this could have been done untold damage would have been wrought. Mayor Heywood held a hurried con-ference con-ference with Chief Browning and Com-missioner Com-missioner Jones and additional guards were placed at tho reservoir and ar-rangements ar-rangements made for the immediate installation of searchlights to illumi-nate illumi-nate the reservoirs. W The police have but little doubt con-cerning con-cerning the motive for the dastardly work, being of the opinion that the bomb was placed by an alien enemy intent upon destroying ihe water sup-ply sup-ply of Ogden as his contribution to the cause. The theory that it was placed by a mental irresponsible just W for the pleasure of destroying prop- W erty has little belief. (Continued on Page 10) IH ffllW MADHOM Iff Photograph of Bomb, With Fuse Attached, in the Hands of an Officer. ( Continued from Pago 1 ) One of the men who was with the police when tho investigation of the dynamite, bomb, at tho reservoir was made.'gavo tho following as a summary sum-mary of reasons for considering that tho bomb had probably been placed with intent to do great damage: "Tho bomb was within a very few inches of the immense 36-inch pipe line, the only feeder for the city water wa-ter system, and at a point where the pipe line had been exposed through excavating for repairs. Just west of this particular spot Is the earth fill that holds the north wall of tho smaller small-er reservoir. A flood of water from the pipe would no doubt have weakened weak-ened this reservoir wall and probably caused it to crumble. . "From tho time of an explosion until word could reach officials, especially in tho evening hours, would be possibly pos-sibly half an hour. Time to send tho official to Coldwater junction, where the first valvo on the pipe line is located, lo-cated, would consume another half hour. In that hour of time, a terrible amount of water would flow from ihisj pipe line, toward the city. Theroi would be, in addition, the entire flow from Coldwater after tho pipo lino valve had been closed. "Meantime, if the city water supply sup-ply had been utilized at practically its usual quantity and the smaller reservoir res-ervoir had been damaged, with loss there, the city would have been in a very critical position in case of fire. Daruoge would have been done to the property along Twenty-second and Twenty-third streets, the natural flow for this water, and the intersections. "While only six sticks of dynamite were placed, loosely tied Jn a sack, there would have been' sufficient force, according to powder men, to break at least several staves in the pipe line. With the internal water pressure, others would probably have broken afterward. Naturally these are only conclusions, suggested by conditions as they were on Monday evening. A number of these conditions condi-tions have- been changed in the past 13 hours by the authorities and any dynamite plotter would not find the samo situation prevailing tonight that prevailed last night. "The simple conclusion must be that the dynamite was of sufficient power find so placed that It could have done tremendous damage, but that this was prevented through the kink in tho fuse." |
