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Show Sk'fttanv- Ehwn Up iiu a Qyaory, Are .. Broyght to Qgcfeii on a Special Traimi CREW OF WORK TRAIN AMONG THE VICTIMS Conductor Bert Jenkins and Brakeman W. D. Tribe Were Present When the Explosion Occurred and Suffered Severe Injuries MEN AND ROCKS WERE BLOWN HIGH IN THE AIR Slow Discharge of One of a Battery of Holes Loaded With Dynamite Caused the Accident--Men Had Gone Back to the Quarry After (he First Shois Were Fired and Received the Full Force of the Delayed Hole Crowd Gather at Depot to See the Wounded Six men were blown up in a quarry at Promontory Point, thirty miles west of Ogden, on the Ogden-Lucln cut-off, at 7:10 this morning, when one of a series of blasts, slow iu exploding, caught two trainmen and four quarrv-men quarrv-men who had gone Into the quarry to investigate the results of the discharge dis-charge of the battery of holes loaded with dynamite. Among the most seriously injured arc Conductor Bert Jenkins and Brakeman W. D. Tribe, who were in charge of one of the six work trains pulling heavy material from the quarry quar-ry for rlp-rapplng the cut-off across Great Salt Lake. Within a few minutes after the accident ac-cident a special train was made up and the injured were brought to j)g-den, j)g-den, arriving at 9 o'clock. From the train all except one were conveyed to the Ogden General hospital. Several shots were set off In tho quarry shortly after 7:30 this morning, but one of those put in missed fire. While several of the work train crew and laborers were Investigating the reason the shot that did not go off with the others, the 'delayed charge exploded, hurling the men and debris de-bris In even- direction. Huge pieces ; of rock were tossed in the air. Several of the men near the shot were seriously Injured, but no one was killed. Conductor Jenkins of the work train was badly cut in the face and Is believed be-lieved to be Injured Internally. W. D. Tribe, a brakeman employed on the w'oik train, had his right arm broken and his-back seriously injured. Erick Bogrcen, a laborer, had ono of his legs broken. Two workmen, employed em-ployed at the quarry, named Made-gan Made-gan and Erlckson, and a water boy named Stajonolch. were also cut and burned and sustained injuries of a more or less serious character. It Is cut bellcyed any of the injured will die, but Jenkins, Tribe and Bo-green Bo-green are thought to be In pretty bad condition as a result of broken limbs. The Injured men were placed on a special train, and brought 1o Ogden, where all but Conductor Jenkins were "sent to the Ogden General hospital for treatment. The latter, at his own request, re-quest, was taken to his home. Rumors of the explosion had preceded pre-ceded the ai rival of the special from Promontory Poiut. and when the latter lat-ter arrived at the Ogden depot a large crowd had gathered to watch the injured in-jured men being carried into the bar- j gage room. The injured were covered with blood, dust and dirt and presented a gruesome eighL This Is the second or third explosion explo-sion in stone quarries adjacent to the cut-off during the last two jears. and "missed" shots have been the cause of the trouble in nearly every instance. in-stance. Five years ago thirty odd persons, including a woman and several children, chil-dren, were blown up on the cut-off near Lakeside, a short distance west of Promontory Point, but that accident, was an-explosion of two carloads of powder In a train. An examination this afternoon disclosed dis-closed that Bert Jenkins has live ribs broken and is Internally injured. |