Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-29

a dastardly attempt. which marks
the present-time climax OF a series
aimed the contractors who are
working on the Hotel Utah property.
Main and South Temple. was made
shortly after 3 o'clock this morning
when a dynamite explosion awakened
Inhabitants for several blocks. caused
q hurry call to the police station. shat
tered windows and otherwise created
general CONSERVATION in the vicinity.
Two men, from the evidence. drove
up to the corner of u. c. NJ, I. alley
in the early hours of the morn
ing. They Weighted their horse
at the junction of the alley and
South Temple Carrying with them q
gunny sack. heavily laden, they made
their way to the high board fence
which surrounds the building plant OF
what is to be the great Hotel Utah.
Creeping in while the night watch
man was at another side of the prop
erty. they descended into the 20-foot
depth where hoist engines. huge der
rlcks. and partially erected steel grid
ers loomcd toward the midnight sky
They emptled their gunny sack and
were carefully placing the contents
when Night Watchman Henderson
ambled around all obllvious OF any
danger. The shadow cast by the watch
man evidently alarmed them in the
midst os their operations.
They had lighted their fuses. which
were of the same sort giving
them minutes to get out OF the exca-
walton before the explosion came
They hurried away. clamberng up the
ladders which brought them to safety.
then picked up the weight and climbed
into the buggy, driving east on South
Temple.
TWO EXPLOSIONS.
It was but moment when two ex-
pIosions came. closely following each
other. They were deafcning. detonat-
ing, which aroused sleepcrs for blocks
around. But they had not been prop
crly covered and the evident intention
OF wrecking both the hosting engine
and toppllng over the derrick failed OF
was broken plate at the base of the
hoist and great hole at the bottom OF
the derrick, which was too far away to
cause any material damage.
The force of the explosion alarmed
the police station. over two blocks
away, and squad was sent up to the
scene with the conviction that either
the State Bank OF Utah OF the Zion's
Savings bank had become the obicc-
tive point of burglars Investigation
proved that these premises were false
and further act in the gum shoe line
discovered the attempted wreckine of
the Hotel Utah foundations and steel
work.
POLICE RUSH TO SCENE.
At the police station, over two blocks
away. the noise OF the explosions was
plainly heard, and there was a STAN
pcdc for the scene. IL was thought thar
burglars were getting in their work on
either the Zion's Savings bank or tho
state Bank Of Utah. Every officer
available was pressed into service. and
Chief Barlow vas routed out of he'd
and directed operations
Investigation developed nothing In
tho bank building and then. across
the street Henderson. the night watch
man, informed the police that there had
been terrific explosions down in tho
pit" from which deTricks raised their
strenuous head In the darkness, donkey
engines made their presence known
With slumbering smoke, and tall steel
girdcrs projected unfinished columns
into the tightening heavens.
HOLE EIGHT Feet DEEP.
Pieces of fuse were round. partially
consumed. in different parts OF tho
foundations. and n huge hole. almost
eight feet IN depth. yawned within a
few feet of one OF the hoisting en-
gines. Later on several tubes on the
hoiatinE engine were found bent but
not broken. and plate on the sill was
shattered A few wire cables were