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Show EXPLOSION INJURES A MAN . BROTHER OF PROPRIETOR OF ELITE CAFE THE VICTIM. Ammonia Churn In the Ice Plant of Packing House Burets With Serious Results. Barnard (Foley, brother of Thomas ?nd George Foley of the Elite Cafe, was fatally Injurexl In an explosion in Salt Lake Friday afternoon. As the result of the explosion of an ammonia churn, part of the ice plant in the cellar of the Interinoun-tain Interinoun-tain Packing company, 3CS West First South street. Salt Lake, Daman Foley, Fol-ey, aged 43 years, an employe of the company, Is lingering between life and death at the L. D. S. hospital. The ice plant In tho cellar of tho packing company com-pany Is a wreck. Immediately after the explosion tho cellar was filled with ammonia gas. Realizing the danger, a comrade performed per-formed an act of heroism in entering the poisoned cellar and drawing the unconscious man to the air. Dr. W. F. Deer said that .Mr. Foley's lungs were filled with the gas, aside from which he was badly burned, and that he could not be icxpccted to live inauy hours. Mr. Foley was In charge of the am-mVmla am-mVmla churn, and was the only person near tho machine when the explosion occurred. C. S. Pettit, an employe of the company, was working In the cellar cel-lar about lOOfeet from the machine. He paid he heard an explosion, and immediately im-mediately a cjoud of ammonia vapor tock his breath away. He was near I ho door, howev er, and managed to get out. The explosion caused the employes em-ployes of the plant to 'crowd around the opening to the elevator shaft, and It was Immediately rumored that Mr. Foley was still in the cellar. Then F. J. Shavey, in charge of the packing department, distinguished himself. At the risk of his life, for the atmosphere in the cellar was thickly laden with the gas. mak'ing it almost impossible to breathe, he went into the vapor and along thet corridor for about fifty feet, when he discovered the Injured man. He had taken a rope with him, which he tied about Foley's body, and carried the other end to the men above. He was blind when he was 1 c'ped from the cellar. Mr. Foley was then dragged out. He wa3 unconscious uncon-scious and vomiting blood. Force of Explosion. The ammonia churn Is used to liquify liqui-fy ammonia gas and Is used in the process pro-cess of cooling the storage vaults. A great pressure is attained in the machine ma-chine and heat from any sourco would immediately expand and explode the gas. The exact cause of the explosion, explos-ion, however. Is a mystery. Hundred-pound Hundred-pound fragments of the machine were hurled a distance of one hundred feet, and a motor thirty feet from the churn was completely demolished. A ton end a half fly-wheel was shattered and the entire end of the churn itself was-blown out. From where Mr. Foley Fol-ey was found' it is probable that he was about ten feet from 'the machine at the time of the explosion. Mr. Foley lives at 367 West First North street, Salt Lake, with his family, fam-ily, a wife, three small daughters and two sons. Mrs. Foley has a ten-rvmths ten-rvmths old baby anl has been far from well for some time past. She was not notified at the time of the accident. Barton Foley, aged 13 years, went to the packing plant yesterday afternoon after school to get some meat from his father. He was told that hi3 father fath-er was at the hospital, badly Injured, and as the little fellow peered through the broken window upon the wreck in the cellar, tears streamed down his cheeks. He was given a dime by a bystander with which to ride to the hospital to see his father. |