The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1909-04-18
EXPLOSION N
K | LIS AN
EMPLOYEE
BROTHER OF PROPRIETOR OF
ELITE CAFE THE VICTIM.
Ammonia Churn In the Ice Plant Of
Packing House Bursts With
Serious Results.

Rarnard Foley. brother OF Thomas
and George Foley of the Elite Cafe.
was fatally Injured In an explosion
In salt Lake Friday afternoon.
AS the result OF the explosion of an
ammonia churn. part Of the ice
pant III the cellar of the Intermoun.
tam Packing company, 36S West First
south street, Salt Lake, Barnard Fol.
ey. aged 43 years. an employe OF the
company. Is dead. The ice plant In
the cellar OF the packing company Is
wreck
Immediately after the explosion the
cellar was filled with ammonia gas.
Realizing the danger. a comrade per
formed an act of heroism in entering
the poisoned cellar and drawing the
unconscious man TO the air DR.. w. F.
Beer said that Mr, Foley's lungs were
hlled with the gas, aside from which
he was badly burned. and that he
could not be expected to live many
hours.
MT, foloy was I'm charge Of the am
monla churn. and was the only person
near the machine when the explosion
occurred, c. S. Petit, an employe of
the company, was working in the eel
lar about 100 feet from the machine.
lie said he heard an explosion, and i'm.
mediately a cloud OF ammonia vapor
took his breath away. He was near
The door, however, and managed TO
get out. The explosion caused the EN-
ployeS OF the plant to crowd around
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II vas Immediately rumored that Mr.,
Foley was still in the cellar. Then +
J. Shavey, III charge of the packing
department, distinguished himself, At
the risk of his life. for the atmosphere
In the cellar was thickly laden with
the gas. making il almost impossible
TO breathe. he went into the yapor
and along the corridor for about fifty
feet. when he discovered the injured
man. He had taken a rope with him,
which he tied about Foley's body. and
carried the other end TO the men
above He was blind when he was
helped from the cellar. Mr Foley was
then dragged out. He was uncon-
scious and vomiting blood
Force Of Explosion.
fy ammonia gas and Is used in the pro-
ccss of cooling the storage vaults. A
great pressure Is attained In the ma
chine and heat from any source would
Immediately expand and explode the
gas. The exact cause OF the explos-
ion, however. is a mystery, Hundred
pound fragments of the machine were
hurled distance of one hundred feet.
and a motor thirty feet from the churn
WAS completely demolished. a ton
and half fly wheel was shattered
and the entire end Of the churn Itself
was blown out From where Mr. Fol
cy was found II rs probable that he
was about ten feet from the machine
at the time of the explosion
Mr.. Foley lives at 367 West First
North street. Salt Lake. with his fam
ily, a wife, three small daughters and
two sons Mrs. Foley has a ten
r,onths.old baby and has been far from
well for some time past. She was not
notified at the time OF the accident.
Barton Foley, aged Is years, went to
tho packing plant Friday afternoon
after school TO get some meat from
his father. He was told that his faith
CT was at the hospital. badly injured,
and as the little fellow peercd through
the broken window upon the wreck
I'm the cellar. tears streamed down
his checks He was given a dime by
a bystander with which to ride 10 the
hospital to see his father
The injured man was taken to the
L. D. S. hospital In semi conscious
condition in which condition he re-
mined until 10. 80 o'clock yesterday
morning when death came to his re-
lief.
Besides the wife and children. and
the brothers who reside In Ogden the
deceased Is survived by father and
mother, two brothers and 4 sister In
ireland and a brother, BARLEY Foley.
in Omaha He WAS n former resident
uf Ogden and has many friends here
who greatly mourn his untimely
death.
Tho body of the deceased was taken
to ODonnel's undertaking parlors i'm
mediately after death where 1t was
prepared for burial Funeral services
will be held at the above mentioned
undertaking parlors this afternoon at
o'clock and the body will be in-
tered In a Salt Lake cemetery.