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Show SALT LAKE DYNAMITERS. A Plot to Blow l p the Ryman Block Carried Almost to Completion. The dynamite sensation has at last reached Salt Lake. This morning about 8 o'clock, one of the employes ot New-comb, New-comb, the photographer, in ascending the stairs of the Ryman Block, in which the photograph gallery is located, stumbled stum-bled against a wood box which had originally1 orig-inally1 contained 20 pounds of sperm candles. can-dles. The peculiar appearance of the lid and especially the presence of a significant sig-nificant hole, burnt black for several inches around it, aroused the young man's curiosity and he at once called the attention of Mr. Andrews, the auctioneer, to it Mr. Andrews being in his room at the head of the stairs. The lid was forced off carefully and the box was found to contain an apparently perfect dynamite preparation- A tnree-pouna lard bucket was placed in one end of the box filled with some explosive substance which was faced with sulphur, and out of this protruded pro-truded an ordinary candle with the tip blackened and burnt in a manner that told positively of its having been lighted. The can was surrounded and held firmly in its position by a quantity of splinters and strips of paper, all of which had been thoroughly saturated with kerosene. Much of the upper portion of these fillings were scorched, and one or two of the chips quite blackened from fire. The preparations for the exploding of the infernal in-fernal thing had evidently been made with the greatest possible care, but whether from the fact of the kerosene becoming cold it had failed to ignite, or whether from some other cause the explosion ex-plosion had been prevented, it is impossible impos-sible to determine. Certain it is that what now appears to have been tho merest accident saved, according to the views of those who have examined the diabolical contrivance, the direst destruction of property and perhaps life too, in the building. It had been placed half way up the stairway leading to Newcomb's photographic studio and the various private rooms adjoining it ; and if a fire had.once got a fair start it would have been hastily wafted over the entire interior of the second floor, by the powerful power-ful draft coming up the stairway. The rooms immediately over the stairs are occupied by. Mr. Andrews, and Mr. Durgin, as sleeping apartments, and the third floor is used as a club hall. Some initials were discovered on the inside of the box-lid, from which Mr. Andrews believed he could trace a clue, and he at once set out to accomplish the work. The matter was placed in the hands .of Marshal Ireland with several significant pointers which are necessarily withheld from the public for the present, and hopes are entertained of having the wnoie piot unearthed within a very few hours. Mr. Andrews suspects that he was the special object of the fiendish scheme and mentions as strangely coincidental to this the fact that he was notified a day or two ago that there was a gun at the express office for him, from Idaho. He did not take the gun out for the same reasons that lead him to suspect certain parties of this second plot against his life, and it therefore still remains at the express office. The matter is in good hands and the sequel will be awaited with considerable interest by Mr. Andrews, his friends and the public. |