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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-11
FORCE OF EXPLOSION.
Whole Building Was Shattered by
Tremendous Conclusion.

" AO4C W aS 0nALLGIGQ
Tremendous Conclusion.
From the appearance of the building
after the fire the entire force of the
explosion seemed to have emanated
from the vicinity of the vault, extend
ing from the floor to the ceiling, in the
southwest corner Of the main room of
the Mine & Smeiter Supply company's
store In the basement just north OF
the vault was stored some thirty bar
rels and a number of caFboys of vari-
Gus explosive acids, which are sup
posed to have caused the explosion The
explosion left the iron vault a mass of
twisted and sDlintered iron, piled upon
the pier rtou which it stood. Some
thirty or forty feet of the brick wall
about twenty feet south of the vault
was blown - pieces, a portion of it
being blown into the side of T. c.
Smiths house across the avenue, de
mOlishing the walls of two rooms. Half
of the brick wall back of the vault
was blown down, leaving the other
half standing, but curved outward like
a bow. The force Of the explosion sent
plate glass from the front windows
far out into the street, and cleaned
the doors and facings from the front
of the store as clean as if done by
carpenter. The explosion seemed to
extend over the entire building, and
heavy stone pillars along the front of
the building were displaced, and the
walls cracked.
Had it not been for the explosion.
which seemed to spread the fire
throughout the whole building, the fire
men believe that they would have been
/ able to control the flames.
| There were reports of an explosion
/ previous to the arrival of the fire de-
partment, but nothing definite could be
| learned about it. II was stated TO Chief
/ DeYine that a man who had been sleep
ing somewhere in the building, was
1 awakened by a mufffed explosion be-
] fore the fire was discovered and found
| the basement to be boiling over with
| smoke a few minutes later. It was sug-
! gested that this first explosion might
/ have been the origin of the fire, but
/ the chief was unable to determine
whether or not there was a previous
! explosion.
1t was circulated that the carbonic
! acid gas tanks in the soda water store
! had exploded, but a careful examina-
/ ton of that part of the building by
/ the firemen failed TO reveal any signs
/ of an explosion from that source. The
] firemen state that after the big exDlO-
/ sion there was a rattle OF small
> explosions, like that of cartridges, for
some time, and one of the firemen eX-
hibited an exploded shotgun cartridge.
which he said struck by him while in
the building. The firemen think there
must haye been cartridges and caps
/ exploding.
The explosion caused wild excitement
among the people at the fire and
alarmed the sleeping citizens in every
part of the city. People living on
the city, say that it shook the windows
of their houses, and in the northeast
ern part of the city the shock was felt
as far as Fifth and I streets.
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at $4,000, and the insurance at either
81. GOO or $4,000, he cannot DC sure
which till he gets into his safe Whera
all his papers were These, he thinks,
VIII be found all right. The safe is now
in the basement covered with brick and
debris. Two small desks We're taken
out and saved; everything else was
consumed. Mr.. Mcintyre said the COM
pany would start up again as soon as
location could be secured and ma
chinery could be got from the east. He
could not give the names of the COM
panies carrying his insurance till he
got the policies from his safe.
The Utah Electrical Supply company
sustained a loss of $4,000. and of this
s.. COO was covered with insurance. The
sun carried 81 600 and the Home Fire
Of Utah 81 900. This. is a severe loss
as this company is made up of num-
Der OF young men with limited means,
and was getting a start G. 3. Hawley
the. manager of the business, stated
that between $500 and $500 worth of ma
terial was saved, and for this he gives
all the credit to Miss Mabel Cooper. a
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-11
BURIED BENEATH DEBRIS.
Sleeper in Boarding House Had a
Rude Awakening.

OF those who had narrow escapes
during the fire. Robert Pearce. an en-
ployee of the Rocky Mountain Bell
Telephone company, probably had
about as close a call as anyone. He
was sleeping on a cot in T. C. Smiths
boarding house. in room directly in
front and just across the avenue from
the seat of the explosion When the
explosion came the bricks from the de-
molished wall wrecked the side wall Of
his room. piling it. bricks. mortar. fHr-
niiure and all kinds of debris upon HIM.
Fortunately Che boards of the wall kept
him from being crushed to death. AMI.
struggling from under the debris. ne
sought a means of escape. The smoke
which filled the place almost stifled
him, and in his desperate efforts to get
out he found a window opening be-
tween his room and an adjoining room.
Regardless of the consequences, he
dived head foremost throuSh the upper
sash, cutting his face and filing his
arms and limbs full of glass. AS he
landed upon the floor Mrs. Smith
screamed that her daughter was miss
ing. and. thinking that she had been
buried beneath debris in her bed,
Pearce snatched up the bed and ran out
into the yard. where he unfolded it. to
find. much 10 his establishment that
there was no one there. A few mo-
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for - time, as much of the furniture
and carpets were badly damaged by
smoke and water. The explosion drove
in the walls in the rear of the house.
and in an instant the entire house was
filled with gas and smoke, so that the
inmates came near being smothered in
their beds. AS it was some of them
had narrow escapes. and received in
juries more or less serious. Tie build
ing belongs to the Hampstead estate
and is damaged to the extent of at
least $500 This was not insured
Spencer Clawson-
Spencer Clawson's eTftire stock of
wholesale dry goods went UP in smoke,
and nothing was saved from his eStab-
lishment except some office furniture
He had a fireproof safe and iz~8f the
opinion that all his papers will be
saved He places his loss at $4,000,
entirely covered by insurance OF the
insurance 81, 500 was carried by the
Russian National and $500 by the
Thuringia. Mr.. Clawson could not tell
where the balance of the insurance
was placed until he got at his papers.
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Destruction Was Complete and
Losses Heavy.

general managcV. John s. Cary, who is
now in Denver. The piaas for the fu-
ture win be held in abeyance till the
arrival Of Mr. Cary. The company has
secured q temporary Office in the Ma
sonic building.
John T.. Dooly puts the loss OF him
s,f and Willia-zs j. Nenzies ,Nn the
building at $4,000. This includes the
building that was entirely destroyed
and the damage TO the Dolly block and
the building in which the High school
was located. He did not care TO give
the names OF the various companies
carrying the insurance, or the amount
carried by each but said chat the loss
would be pretty wei distributed among
companies represented in this city.
As to the origin OF the fire and the
fight made against Il by the depart
ment. Mr. DOoly had but little to say,
although he expressed tile highest
praise tor the work done oy The fire.
men. lie said they did their very best,
and as a testimonial he viii send a
check for 500 10 Chief Devire this
morning the amouL- to be distributed
among the boys.
I'VE nave an electric pump in the
Doolr block" he said: -one that I had
put In about a year ago. This X con-
nected with the city mains and kept
two continuous streams playing on the
fro from the first n worked admir-
ably at time when the pressure
would not take the watei to the roof.
The chemical FIRE extinguishers worked
wen also and had it not been for this
aid the Dolly block wouiG have sus-
tained hea4ty damages. 1 don't care
to discuss the water pressure or the
mana cement Of the fire department
the boys did the best they could. and
they deserve the greatest credit for the
fight they made. The fire could have
been I andiec nicely had II not been
for the explosion in the south end OF
the building That was a fearful ex-
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from flying debris, and it was feared
that Chief Mccarthy. who was bleeding
profusely from a wound over the right
eye. was going to bleed to death The
four injured men were quickly placed in
the patrol wagon and taken to Smiths
drug store, where physicians were sum-
moned to attend them. Dr. Giesy, who
was the first on the scene. took charge of
Chief Mccarthy, who was almost ex-
hausted from the loss OF blood. The chief
tainted as the doctor began work upon
him and remained unconscious until his
injuries had oeen attended to. 1t was
found that the artery above his right eye
had been severed and there was a long
cash in his left limb which required three
stitches TO close Two stitches had TO De
taken in the wound above his eye.
II was found that Captain Love had
been struck by some sharp instrument.
which cut some of the tendOns of his
left forearm, but his wounds were not
serious. MOreton had his right hand and
wrist badly lacerated. and Wnitbeck had
his right hand and thumb cut so that he
could not use them. but their injuries
were not serious. After recovering Chico
Mccarthy, with characteristic pluck, pc.
sisted in returning to the IRE, and went
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SALT LAKE HERAIDa WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER

to work again, remaining there until DIT
Witcher went and forced him to go home.
where he IS now confined to his bed. very
weak from the loss OF blood The other
three men. after having their injuries
dressed returned TO the IRE. and did wha-
they could with their disabled arms.
Aoreton and Witbecl believe that they
owe their lives to the fact that they were
stopping down. when the crash came. and
thus escaped much of the force OF the
explosion. Then men are all congratulate
ing themselves that they escaped with
their lives But a FEW minutes before the
explosion they were within a few feet
OF where II occurred. and would I'M
doubleday have been blown to atoms had
they not changed their position. Chief
Devine narrowly missed being in the ex-
plosion also. He had just left Chief Nc
Carthy to look for Captain Workman. but
had not gotten far enough away TO es-
cape being severely shaken and almost
thrown from his feet
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CZOLGUSZ'S BROTHER
DENOUNCES DEED

Columbus. o., Sept. 10--A brother OF
Leon Czolgosz is employed at the Dia-
mond match works in BarbertOn. He Is
81 years old. md is very much averse to
talking about the trouble in which his
brother finds himself He condemns. how
ever. in the strongest Possible manner,
the deed of the assassination, and ever
went so far as to exclaim with much
force, Leon ought to be strung up
He professed to know nothing OF any
anarrhistic sentiments which Leon pos
sesseI, but stated that he himself had
been a socialist although he had changed
his mind during the past few weeks. He
does not believe that his brother COM
mitted the crime from any belief in an
archy. but says that ne must have been
paid for doing it.
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ting out the doors to make the means of
egress more easy Chief Mccarthy raised
his axe TO strike when the report came
He and Captain Love were hurled across
the sidewalk and landed against the fence
at the edge OF the walk, bleeding and
stunned. M0retOn and Witbeck we're
blown violently against the door where
they had entered. and Witbeck scrambled
on his hands and knees
ssNoreton Is IN there YETI shouted he
as he staggered to his feet.
My God, why don't you get him outE
shouted Chief Mccarthy. as, streaming
with blood from wounds in the mead and
limb ne dashed back into the building.
Rforeton, however, had crawied out, and
dashing after Mccarthy, brought him
All Of the men had received severe cuts
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plosion and is responsible for the
greater part of the loss"
n the matter Of rebuilding. Mr..
Dolly was not prepared to speak till
the fla amount of the damages was
ascertained- and until after he had COM
municated with Mr.. Menzies. That
gentleman had just been making his
annual business visit to Salt Lake and
left for the east two days ago.
Soda Water Company.
The salt Lake Soda Water company
was entirely cleaned out and the loss
is placed at $4,000. The loss here was
in machinery. apparatus and stock
William Mcintyre. the manager OF the
cOmpany's business. puts the total loss
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hundred dollars, but he bears Il with
equa nimity. Nc insurance
II. w. tChester) Mason has room on
the south side of the Dooly block He
suffered no loss. from the fire, but the
water dana ged him to a considerable
extent. Mr.. Mason and Doc King, the
latter having hurried up TO see II he
could be OF any service, removed the
formers ch1ttels 10 a safe place when
it began to look as If the Dooiy block
would be destroyed.
During the progress Of the IRE Ser
geant Burbridge had q narrow call 1or
his life. S1e was standing in front or
the Mine * Shelter supply store, whom
the front wall was blown out by the
explosion. Fortunately for him. he
was standing behind a telephone pole
when the wall of brick came flying
toward him. and he escaped without in
jury. although brick and iron fell like
hail all about him.
A phenomenal escape was that Of r.
G.eM. Smith, the proprietor of a room
ing house just across PierpOnt avenue
from the Short Line building. He was
standing between his house and the
burning building when the explosion
occurred that blew the wall of the
burning building across the road
against his house. Mr. Smith said that
he stopped lust as the explosion came.
and the brick wall flew over his head.
Some Of the debris fell upon him AMI
bruised his body considerably but aside
from that he was unhurt-
BY an exhibition Of remarkable dar-
ing. Henry Wallace. d conductor on the
salt Lake lines. made himself the hero
of one of the most thrilling incidents
OF the IRE. The spirited team httcheu
to truck No. 4 became frightened at the
explosion, and having been left by their
driver for moment they started up
through the crowd on West Temple
street at breakneck speed. The crowd
scattered in terror in every direction.
but suddenly Wallace made a dive for
the heads OF the team. He was carried
off his feet and dashed along swinging
10 the bits OF the brides for fifty feet
or more, but succeeded in stopping the
/ horses.
! AS a token Of his appreciation OF tha
good work Of the fire department, J. Il.
Dooiy sent a check for 500 to the fire
department yesterday afternoon, with
his compliments and thanks to them
for their excellent work The present
was greatly appreciated by Chief De
vine and the members of the depart
ment
During the early part of the fire. and
just after the explosion, the fremen
stood playing a stream Of water on the
inside of the building from the center
arch. While there, the walls above
them began swaying. People across the
street. and, in fact. all around them.
kept calling out, Look out. The wall
is faIlingi'' The fremen did not seem
to hear the cries Of the crowd and stayed
where they We're. Just as the wall be-
gan to totter, toward the street, the
men saw their danger and got back
into the middle of the street. Just as
they reached there the walls fell with
a crash. missing the men not more than
a few feet. It was one Of the most
narrow escapes out of a great many
during the day.
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EUROPE TO KEEP AN
EYE ON ANARCHISTS

London. Sept. u.-Stimulated by the at
tacks upon President Mckinley, con-
tinental governments are adopting the
greatest precautions to insure the safety
of the touring sovereigns. Twenty-Five
thousand troops viii be employed IL
France to protect the routes taken by
Emperor Nicholas The French. Swiss
and Italian governments have ordered
their police to exercise the greatest vigil
lance on the frontiers in the expectation
that frightened anarchists viii seek ref
uge in flight.
The suppositiOn that anarchism might
form a subject of conversation at the
meeting OF the rulers was probably the
origin of the unfOunded report that En-
peror William would call an international
conference to deal with the evil
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HAD NARROW ESCAPE.
Walter Clawson Almost Cremated in
Burning Building.

Wd1CeI C1dWSOn AlInOSI OTeudIeQ III
Burning Building.
Walter Clawson, who discovered the
fire and turned in the alarm, had
narrow escape from cremation in the
burning building. He awakened to find
himself surrounded BY hungry flames,
and only managed TO escape from the
building after severely burning his
hands and hair and losing some $500
or 5000 worth of personal effects. He
was thankful TO get out with his life.
but despite his burns he remained at
the fire, doing everything that he could
Il awoke about $780," said Mr.. Claw
son, almost Stifed with smoke, and
saw the fire glazing in my eyes 1 was
sleeping in the rear of the store, near
the apparent origin of the fire, and the
curtains around my-bed were in flames
when [ awakened. For a moment I
was daZed, and could hardly realize
what it all meant. Then 1 managed to
get into some clothes and started for
the rear door. Before I got there the
dense smoke proved too much for me
and fell TO the floor almost stified.
CROPPED my way on the floor to the
back door, and. opening it. crawled
out. AS soon as / opened the door
the whole store seemed to burst into a
sea OF flames. ] ran to the postoffice
and called to the clerks to telephone to
the fire department, and then made my
way back to the store. Finding that
the flames had cut off any entrance into
the place 1 ran around TO the front,
and as 1 could see no sign of the fire
men coming, I ran TO the postofTice and
had them telephone again.
When the fire department arrived
helped them break into the front and
assisted in getting some desks and
things out of the place. When we were
driven out OF the place l suddenly dis
Z covered that 1 had no clothes on, and,
going to pile where some things mad
been dumped, found something that I
could wear, and went back into the
building, where 1 was when the ex-
plosion occurred.
MIR. Clawsons hands were quite Sc
verely burned and his hair was dam
aged. but aside from that he escaped
| unhurt-
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HIGH SCHOOL DAMAGE.
Walls and Ceiling Gone From Two
Rooms

The High school building is badly
damaged by water and the recitation
rooms along the north corridor burned
out In rooms Ii and Is the outer walls
and ceiling are entirely gone and ad-
joining rooms and halls flooded. The
assembly room, drawing room and lab
Oratories are intact, but the damage
done to other parts of the building
make it unfit for use.
Teachers were at work all day sort
ing and drying books and removing the
best of them to safe places. A corps of
boys, among whom were Lawrence Ire
mayne, Lee Turner. Ray Booth and
Reuben Smith, rendered efficient help
in saving pictures and teachers per
sonal effects
1t is a matter of ratulation that
the enrolment was taken Monday, and
the prompt action of the board in Sc
curing new quarters viii enable the
work to proceed smoothly in a weel-
at most. The pupils seemed to be all
on hand at the fire and much regret
was expressed at the necessary delay
in beginning work.
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NOTES ON THE FIRE.

The site of the burned building has
been the scene of three destructive
fires. the last one topping the others.
About twenty years ago a dwelling
house. on the exact spot of the Ore
gon Short Line building, was totally
destroyed. Three winters ago the room
occupied by the Kansas City Smelling
& Refining company took fire from an
assay furnace. and the loss to the own
ers of the building and to other ten
ants ran UP into the thousands of dol
lars
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INJURED FIREMEN.
Four Men Narrowly Escaped Death
in Explosion.

Mccarthy, VVitbeclS Love and Moreton
the four firemen injured by the explosion.
had the closest call for their lives that
they have ever had. When the explosion
came Moreton and Witbeck were about
twenty feet from the door of the ma
chinery department of the Mine & Smell
ter Supply store. and We're kneeling upon
the floor with lire of hose trying 70
work their way further into the b;lildins,
under the dense smoke. Captain Love
and Chief Mccarthy we're engaged in cut
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PASSED A GOOD
NIGHT.

Milburn House, Sept. Il, 5 a. m.-One
of the nurses who has just come from
the room reports that the president is
sleeping quietly. The entire private part
of the house is very quiet with the
lights burning dimly and no outward
evidence of anyone moving about
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Mr.. and Mrs. J. W. Neil and daugh-
ter have rooms on the south side Of the
Dolly block on the fifth floor. Mr..
Neill is in British Columbia on mining
business. but Mrs. Neill and her daugh-
ter were in their rooms when the fire
broke out. They hurriedly dressed and
prepared to save their belongings. In
this they were ably assisted by a citi-
zen who came in the nick of time. and
to whom Mrs. Neil feels very grateful.
although he got away before she
learned his name
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ments later the young lady was found
in another part of the house, where she
had retreated when awakened by the
explosion. Mrs. Smith was thrown %
the floor by the conclusion, and all IN
the house were shaken up. The entire
roof of the kitchen was demolished.
and the room in which Mr.. Pearce
slept was a total wreck.
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PRONOUNCE 1T "SHOLLGOSCH.'
Chicago Tribune.)


ZOLGOSZ the of the who shot President Mckinley,
offers lngual problem nnetenths of those who
pronounce 1t Of those which the English
aphabea cannot spell phonetca, and which tie English
speaking mble trying after hearing it
spoken Russian Written according sound the of
Cogosz, equivalent "Tchogoseh broadly
speaking "Shollgoscif'
Thc pronunciation the given BY Sergeant Ter
the Chicago detective bureau Russian
with the varied dialects Polish Russia whence the
parents of icon Czolgosz o this
represented in the Russian alphabet b character which
pronounced much the though
sneeze"tch The eters"ol'rc pronounced in
5naon though written % and the remaining letters of the
name-~gosz" be given the sound Of ~goscl"
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Believed That Explosion Was
Caused by Chemicals.

men to look over the place This he did,
and the men expressed themselves as
satisfied with the precautions we were
taking. We carried nothing not per
mitted by the authorities and our in
surance policies.
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One o. the linemen employed BY the
Utah :. ght & Power company, while
engaged in disentangling the wires on
West Temple street, came in contact
was "tied up" for a few minutes. He
was fortunately able to release himself
before he had been injured in any seri-
Gus Wav.