The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-19

sion in the northeast corner of the Utah
hotel building seem positively established.
One is that the explosive used was nitro
1 glycerin, and the other is that the man
or men who threw the powerful explosive
was familiar with the surroundings, and
entered the yards from the east, where
there was easy means of ingress and
egress.
There are several unexplained conditions
which have a pertinent bearing upon the
mysterious situation. If the damage was
done by anyone who sought TO impede the
work of construction on the building, II
seems quite plausible that the nitro would
have been hurled twenty feet further
west. thus destroying the air-compressing
machine which furnishes the power Tor
the riveting apparatus, which is indispen-
sable at all times IN structural work.
With the air-compressor destroyed, WORK
on the building would have been delayed
for weeks. The theory to which the police
cling is that 1t was not the intention TO
cripple or destroy the machine, but TO
cast the explosive into a clump of steel
beams which had been taken out of the
superstructure on account or faulty pldc-
ing. If this was the intention, the plan
Gid not miscarry, as many or the large
pieces of steel were bent and twisted. One
of the foundation beams. which were in
place, was bent and another was blown
out of place.
without patrolmen on the outside of the
enclosure there could have been no diff
Guilty in a man or several men entering
the building grounds Anyone bent on des-
truction might have been Secreted and
been out of sight of the two watchmen
for hours. From their cover they could
have waited until one of the watchmen en-
tered the office shack, which is about IN
the middle of the south side of the build
ing, and until the other Waterman was
around on the extreme western sloe
Watchmen Knocked Down.
According to the watchmen, d. r. Os-
borne and F. W. Newton, this is just
what occurred. Newton was in the shack
and Osborne was patroling the west END
of the structure when the explosion oc-
CURED. Both men were thrown 10 the
ground, but neither was seriously IN
jured. Newton declares that when ne re-
covered from the shock he saw a man
running from the northeast entrance OF
the enclosure, but that he was too far
away to be able to describe him.
Mrs. Ashby Snow, who lives few hun
bred feet north of the hotel building
said that she was abruptly awakened by
the noise and conclusion of the explosion,
and about three minutes later heard
man running rapidly east on North Iem-
pie street This bears out the statement
of Watchman Newton that there was
only one man implicated in the affair."
and that he escaped through the exits on
the northeast; ran to North Temple ana
then east.
one of the foundation beams was hurled
ont of position and a piece of It carried
in the air to the pavement on the SOUTH
east corner of Main and South Temple
streets. Other fragments of steel torn
loose by the force of the explosion were
found imbedded in the pavement in the
immediate vicinity of the hotel building.
]. c. wilkins, who is in charge Of the
work on the hotel, yesterday estlmateu
the damage at $500
1--WE have no quarrel with the union.
he said; I'VE have been carrying out our
contract on the open shop basis. We pay
our men the union scale, which Is A50
for eight hours work.
Jones Abandons Work.
wilkins said that Richard D, Jones,
who was formerly In charge OF the con-
struction work on the building for the
April T. He declined to state for what
reason ne had severed his connection.
wilkins said he had well-defined theories
as to the exposion, but declined 10 dls-
cuss them for publication.
John Z. Munsey, business agent Tor
local No. q, Structural Iron Workers,
said;
mo one is more anxious than 1 am to
see the guilty person or persons detected
and prosecuted. Our union does not care
whether il was union or nOn-uniOn men.
or men not actively engaged in the craft,
who threw the explosive; we want them
exnosed and convicted. 1t is strange
thing to me that with two nightwatch
men on the job and the premises Drill
liantly Illuminated. how anything Of the
kind could have happened. 1t is the same
old story however. Wherever non-union
men are employed and anything in the
nature of violence happens, the unions
are blamed. The Structural Iron Work
ers fell out with the American Bridge
company six years ago.
Strike Breakers on Job.
There are a number of professional
strike breakers on the work. These men
take advantage of favorable labor con-
ditions conceived and established by (
labor unions ] have talked to some
of the workers on the building and tried
to induce them to quit. In the light OF 4
the attempt made December 20, 1909, |
to blow up the foundation of the build
ing. and the fiasco in connection with |
the men who are supposed to have been |
guilty of the crime, there is something |
decidedly mysterious in connection with /
the explosion Sunday night.
Vastly more damage was done by the |
wrecking of windows in the business |
houses, residences and buildings in the /
than to the superstructure Of /
the hotel building. Eight large plate 1
glass windows were blown out Of the /
north side of the Temp!eton building. /
Many windows on the upper floor were |
also blown out. In the way of a freak, /
only two windows were blown out of /
the Bishops building. although it was |