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Show Two Escape 111 Emmons Explosion; Truck Blast Heard In Roosevelt A truck loaded with 1,000 j ; pounds ol dynamite, owned ily'j General Geophysical Co. and driven by Kenneth Wooten, was blown to bits Monday morning one-half mile south of Mt. Emmons, Em-mons, when the dynamite ignited ignit-ed and exploded. Wooten and his companion, Ted Phillips, were not injured, i The pair were driving along ! when they noticed smoke com-,' com-,' ing from the back of the truck. I Stopping and getting out to in- I vestigate, according to H.R. ! Herr, General Geophysical party chief, they threw out a few sticks of dynamite, only to realize rea-lize the fire was getting out of control. They started running in onnositp directions. stODDed a car that was entering the area a safe distance from the expected expect-ed explosion, and were about 100 feet away when the blast occured. Both had flung' themselves them-selves to the ground when the dynamite went off. Neither was hurt, but Wooten was struck in several places by shrapnel. 1 i 1 The truck was completely demolished. de-molished. Herr said a tire tool was the only useful object salvaged sal-vaged from the wreckage. Seated Seat-ed pieces of the truck s frame ' ying around, also the mo-1 nail was cracked. Wooten and Phillips were! transporting the dynamite from Bluebell to Duchesne when the accident occurred. Herr said he jtiidn't know w'nat set off the explosion, but sparks from the exhaust pipe might have been the cause. Power lines and fence posts were blown down and windows broken. Electric service was cut off for several minutes. The blast was heard by many as far away as Myton and Roosevelt. Roos-evelt. In Mt. Emmons, where Herr and Sheriff Arzy Mitchell Mitch-ell conducted an investigation, telephone wires and fence posts were blown down, and windows broken. Power was disrupted. |