Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-04-08
SALT LAKE DYNAMITERs.
, Plot TO Blow Up the hS"
Block Carried Almost
TO Completion.

The dynamite sensation has at las.
reached Salt Lake. This morning about
g o'clock one OF the employees oil new
comb. the photographer, in ascending
tbo stairs of the Ryman Block, in which
the photograph gallery is located, STUN
blod AGAINST wood box which had orig
inallv contained 20 pounds OF sperm can
dies. The peculiar appearance oil 'he
lid and especially the presence oil a slg si
nifcant hole, burnt black for seVeral
inches around it, aroused the young
mans curiosity and he at once calleu inc
attention OF Mr.. Andrews, the auctloneer,
to it-Mr. Andrews being in his room NJ
the head of the stairs. The. lid was
forced off carefully and the box was
found to contain an apparently periect.
dynamite preparation A three-pound
lard bucket was placed in one
end of the box filled with
some explosive substance which was
faced with sulphur and out OF this pro
truded an ordinary candle with the tip
blackened and burnt in manner thaV
told positively OF its having been Lighted.
The can was surrounded and held iirmly
in its position by quantity OF spilnters
and strips of paper, all OF which had been
thoroughly saturated with Kerosene.
Much OF the upper portion OF these hliings
we're scorched, and one or two oil the
chips quite blackened from fire. The
PREPARATIONS for the exploding OF the 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, oil
whether from some other cause the eX-
plosion had been prevented, it is impos.
sible to determine. Certain it is that
what now appears to have been tho
merest accident saved, according tC
the views of those who have examined
the diabolical contrivance, the dlres
destruction OF property and perhaps life
too, in the building 1t had been placed
half way up the stairway leading tc
Newcomb's Photographic studio and the
various private rooms adjoining it; ano
il fire had once got fair start it would
have been hastily waited over the entire
interior of the second floor, by the power
full draft coming up the stairway. Tit
rooms Immediately over the stairs ar
occupied by Mr.. Andrews, and MIR
Durgin, as sleeping apartments, and TIL,
third floor is used as club hall.
Some initials were discovered on tn
inside of the box-lid, from which Mr.
Andrews believed he could trace a clue
and he at once set out to accomplish tn
work. The matter was placed in tn
hands of Marshal Ireland with severa
significant pointers which are necessaril
withheld from the public for the pre- sent
and hopes are entertained OF having tn
whole plot unearthed within very fe,
, hours. Mr.. Andrews suspects that he wa
the special object OF the fiendish schem
and mentions as strangely coincidental
this the fact that he was notified da
or two ago that there was 4 gun at tn
express office for him, from Idaho. III
did not take the gun out for the sam
| reasons that lead him to suspect certai
parties OF this second plot against hi
life, and it therefore still remains at tn
, express office.
, The matter is in good hands and til
l sequel will be awaited with considerabl
interest by Mr.. Andrews, his friends an
r the public.