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Show POWDER EXPLOSION INJURES UTAHNS , STRUCK BY FLYING ROCKS WHEN GIANT BLAST OF'7,000 POUNDS EXPLODES. Crowd Watching Blasting Operations In Canyon When Accident Occurs Small Boy Being Fatally Injured by Flying Rocks. Nephi, Utah. A small boy was-struck was-struck on the head with a rock and fatally injured, his older brother and two other were seriously injured by Hying rocks, all telegraph and tele-phone tele-phone service was destroyed temporarily tempor-arily and the canyon railroad was torn up Sunday afternoon when a heavy charge of powder, placed in Salt Creel; canyon, a mile and a half east of No-phi, No-phi, failed to explode properly and blew thousands of large-sized Atones in all directions. The charge contained 7.0'iO pounds of powder and was placed in a hole by the Nephi Plaster company com-pany for the purpose of breaking up the side of the mountain. All those injured were members of a large crowd of curious persons who gathered on th 3 opposite side of the canyon, 50t yards away, to see the explosion. The explosion was most spectacular. The heavy shot had been placed in the j ground and was expected to open up the earth in all directions. Instead the setting off of the powder resulted result-ed in what is known as a blow-out The heavy charge blown straight from the hole sent thousands of stones, many of them weighing tons, directly across the canyon. Officials of the plaster company deny blame for the accident and ue-clare ue-clare that the charge was placed in the hole with aU caution. Under ordinary ordi-nary circumstances the persons across the canyon would have been in perfect per-fect safety. |